Sarah Padden (October , â€" December , ) was a theatre and film
character actress. She performed on stage in the early th century. Her
best-known single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production
in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the
American Civil War.Born in England to an Irish immigrant father,
Michael Padden, and an English mother, the family emigrated to the
United States on the S/S Ohio from England passing through the Port of
Philadelphia in .[citation needed]The future actress took part in
recitations in the Catholic school she attended in Chicago, where her
fellow students enjoyed her talent as a mimic. Her parents wanted her
to enter a convent, but a liberal-minded priest, Father Dorney,
encouraged her ambition to become an actress. He assisted her in
obtaining her first stage role, a theatrical featuring Otis Skinner.
character actress. She performed on stage in the early th century. Her
best-known single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production
in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the
American Civil War.Born in England to an Irish immigrant father,
Michael Padden, and an English mother, the family emigrated to the
United States on the S/S Ohio from England passing through the Port of
Philadelphia in .[citation needed]The future actress took part in
recitations in the Catholic school she attended in Chicago, where her
fellow students enjoyed her talent as a mimic. Her parents wanted her
to enter a convent, but a liberal-minded priest, Father Dorney,
encouraged her ambition to become an actress. He assisted her in
obtaining her first stage role, a theatrical featuring Otis Skinner.
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