Sarah Edwards
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: October 9, 1881
Day of Death: January 7, 1965 (83 years old)
Place of Birth: Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sarah Edwards (October 11, 1881 – January 7, 1965) was a Welsh-born American film and stage actress. She often played dowagers or spinsters in numerous Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, mostly in minor roles. Edwards started her acting career as a stage actress, she was described in 1916 by a newspaper article as a leading actress "very popular with West End theatre-goers".[1] She eventually settled in the United States and appeared in six Broadway plays between 1919 and 1931, primarily in comedies like The Merry Malones by George M. Cohan. Among her first movies was the New York-filmed 1929 musical Glorifying the American Girl (1929), where she portrayed the mercenary mother of leading actress Mary Eaton. She came to Hollywood in the mid-1930s where she appeared in about 190 films until her retirement 1951, mostly in uncredited, small character roles. Sarah Edwards died in Hollywood in 1965, aged 83. Edwards seemed older than she was and often portrayed a "kindly grandmother, imperious dowager, hardy pioneer wife, ill-tempered teacher and strict governess". She remains perhaps best-known to modern audiences as the imperious mother of Mary Hatch (Donna Reed) in Frank Capra's film classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) who tries to keep her daughter away from George Bailey. Edwards also played a customer in Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940) with James Stewart. She also appeared in another Christmas classic, The Bishop's Wife (1947) with Cary Grant, and as the wife of a doctor on the train in Hitchcock's thriller Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Edwards sometimes also portrayed more substantial roles, for instance in the Charlie Chan movie Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944).
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1942
Actor Selma Quentin
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Actor Mrs. Weatherwax
My Favorite Blonde
Actor Miss Priddle
Dudes Are Pretty People
Actor Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
The Forest Rangers
Actor Housekeeper
Sons of the Pioneers
Actor Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Apache Trail
Actor Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
Calling All Pa's
Actor
Rings on Her Fingers
1941
Actor Angie Turner
Miss Polly
Actor Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Actor Susanna Hawkins Peabody
Sunset in Wyoming
Actor Clubwoman
Three Girls About Town
Actor Miss Petherby
Mr. District Attorney
Actor Customer (uncredited)
I Wake Up Screaming
Actor Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
Tom, Dick and Harry
Actor Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
Actor Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
The Face Behind the Mask
1940
Actor Woman Customer
The Shop Around the Corner
Actor Mrs. Stinchfield
Young People
Actor Spinster
Lucky Cisco Kid
Actor Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake
Actor Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
The Invisible Woman
Actor Miss Hodges
Strike Up the Band
Actor Neighbor Girl
The Howards of Virginia
Actor Spinster (Uncredited)
Arise, My Love
Actor Marquise della Rosa
New Moon
Actor Landlady
Little Men
Actor Undetermined Role
Free, Blonde and 21
Actor Literary Committee Member
Curtain Call
1939
Actor Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Persons in Hiding
Actor Mrs. Moots
Boy Trouble
Actor Mrs. Minnows
Meet Dr. Christian
Actor Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Actor Annie Rucker (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Actor Saleswoman (uncredited)
Blondie Meets the Boss
Actor Florence (uncredited)
Coast Guard
Actor Lady in Revolving Door
Remember?
Actor Militant American Tourist
Espionage Agent
Actor Chaperone at Dance
Here I Am a Stranger
Actor (uncredited)
Sabotage
Actor
Too Busy to Work
Actor Driver (uncredited)
Drunk Driving
Actor Mrs. Jones
Unmarried
1938
Actor Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
The Cowboy and the Lady
Actor Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
Three Loves Has Nancy
Actor
A Doggone Mixup
Actor Miss Adams (uncredited)
Judge Hardy's Children
Actor Mrs. Fleming
Merrily We Live
Actor Clerk (uncredited)
A Man to Remember
Actor Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
Actor Party Guest
Woman Against Woman
Actor School Board Member Miss Brundage
The Beloved Brat
Actor Mrs. Snell
Women Are Like That
Actor Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
The Shining Hour
Actor Party Guest (uncredited)
Gold Is Where You Find It
1937
1936
Actor Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
Theodora Goes Wild
Actor Mrs. O'Shea
Two-Fisted Gentleman
Actor Miss Pinchon
Palm Springs
Actor First Society Woman (uncredited)
Colleen
Actor Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
The Golden Arrow
Actor Miss Barton
Early to Bed
Actor Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
The General Died at Dawn
1935
Actor Dowager in Taxi
Shadow of Doubt
Actor Abigail Adams
Two-Fisted
Actor Woman Dancing with Fat Man
Stars Over Broadway
Actor Old Maid (uncredited)
It's in the Air
Actor Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
I Live My Life
Actor Mrs. Myron Carey
Ruggles of Red Gap
Actor Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
Sweepstake Annie
Actor Martie Beemish
People Will Talk
