Name
Sarah Edwards
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1881-10-11
Deathday
1965-01-07 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Biography
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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- 1946 It's a Wonderful Life as Mrs. Hatch
- 1936 Theodora Goes Wild as Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
- 1940 The Shop Around the Corner as Woman Customer
- 1949 Air Hostess as Bertha Hallum
- 1938 The Cowboy and the Lady as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1938 Three Loves Has Nancy as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
- 1942 Scattergood Survives a Murder as Selma Quentin
- 1944 Charlie Chan in the Secret Service as Mrs. Hargue
- 1947 The Bishop's Wife as Mrs. Duffy
- 1945 Allotment Wives as Sadie
- 1941 Miss Polly as Angie Turner
- 1940 Young People as Mrs. Stinchfield
- 1948 California Firebrand as Granny Hortense Mason
- 1945 Saratoga Trunk as Miss Diggs (uncredited)
- 1937 It's Love I'm After as Mrs. Hinkle
- 1939 Persons in Hiding as Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
- 1944 Storm Over Lisbon as Maude Perry-Tonides
- 1929 Glorifying the American Girl as Mrs. Hughes
- 1936 Two-Fisted Gentleman as Mrs. O'Shea
- 1945 Lady on a Train
- 1935 Shadow of Doubt as Dowager in Taxi
- 1935 Two-Fisted as Abigail Adams
- 1938 A Doggone Mixup
- 1939 Boy Trouble as Mrs. Moots
- 1938 Judge Hardy's Children as Miss Adams (uncredited)
- 1948 Family Honeymoon as Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
- 1938 Merrily We Live as Mrs. Fleming
- 1942 My Favorite Blonde as Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
- 1936 Palm Springs as Miss Pinchon
- 1941 H.M. Pulham, Esq. as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
- 1947 Good News as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
- 1929 Two Americans
- 1952 Carson City as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
- 1944 Bathing Beauty as Faculty Member (uncredited)
- 1950 The Fuller Brush Girl as Mrs. East (uncredited)
- 1939 Meet Dr. Christian as Mrs. Minnows
- 1938 A Man to Remember as Clerk (uncredited)
- 1938 Love Is a Headache as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
- 1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
- 1936 Colleen as First Society Woman (uncredited)
- 1937 Public Wedding as Mrs. Van Drexel
- 1935 Stars Over Broadway as Woman Dancing with Fat Man
- 1944 Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid as Mrs. Bradley
- 1944 Henry Aldrich's Little Secret as Mrs. Bradley
- 1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Annie Rucker (uncredited)
- 1939 Blondie Meets the Boss as Saleswoman (uncredited)
- 1939 Coast Guard as Florence (uncredited)
- 1939 Remember? as Lady in Revolving Door
- 1942 Dudes Are Pretty People as Miss Priddle
- 1939 Espionage Agent as Militant American Tourist
- 1940 Lucky Cisco Kid as Spinster
- 1940 Opened by Mistake as Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
- 1945 Girls of the Big House as Dormitory Matron
- 1939 Here I Am a Stranger as Chaperone at Dance
- 1943 Shadow of a Doubt as Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
- 1937 Varsity Show as Mrs. Biddle
- 1938 Woman Against Woman as Party Guest
- 1943 Dixie Dugan as Mrs. Kelly
- 1941 Sunset in Wyoming as Susanna Hawkins Peabody
- 1936 The Golden Arrow as Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
- 1940 The Invisible Woman as Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
- 1937 The Awful Truth as Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
- 1938 The Beloved Brat as School Board Member Miss Brundage
- 1945 Two O'Clock Courage as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
- 1934 My Grandfather's Clock as Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1943 All by Myself as Mrs. Vincent
- 1942 The Forest Rangers as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
- 1932 Wayward as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1940 Strike Up the Band as Miss Hodges
- 1940 The Howards of Virginia as Neighbor Girl
- 1940 Arise, My Love as Spinster (uncredited)
- 1940 New Moon as Marquise della Rosa
- 1935 It's in the Air as Old Maid (uncredited)
- 1940 Little Men as Landlady
- 1937 Big Business as Miss Collins - School Principal
- 1948 The Main Street Kid as Mrs. Clauson
- 1935 I Live My Life as Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
- 1940 Free, Blonde and 21 as Undetermined Role
- 1939 Sabotage as (uncredited)
- 1941 Three Girls About Town as Clubwoman
- 1946 Song of Arizona as Dolly Finnuccin
- 1940 Curtain Call as Literary Committee Member
- 1942 The Sons of the Pioneers as Housekeeper
- 1942 Apache Trail as Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
- 1936 Early to Bed as Miss Barton
- 1937 We're on the Jury as Evelyn Bottomley
- 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap as Mrs. Myron Carey
- 1941 Mr. District Attorney as Miss Petherby
- 1941 I Wake Up Screaming as Customer (uncredited)
- 1934 The World Accuses as Lucille Weymouth
- 1941 Tom, Dick and Harry as Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
- 1939 Too Busy to Work
- 1946 Undercurrent as Cora (uncredited)
- 1942 Calling All Pa's as Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
- 1942 Rings on Her Fingers
- 1945 The Corn Is Green as Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
- 1939 Drunk Driving as Driver (uncredited)
- 1938 Women Are Like That as Mrs. Snell
- 1939 Unmarried as Mrs. Jones
- 1935 Sweepstake Annie as Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
- 1935 People Will Talk as Martie Beemish
- 1938 The Shining Hour as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
- 1938 Gold Is Where You Find It as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1941 One Foot in Heaven as Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
- 1932 American Madness as Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
- 1943 Nearly Eighteen as Miss Perkins
- 1936 The General Died at Dawn as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
- 1941 The Face Behind the Mask as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
- 1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
- 1946 Girl on the Spot as Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
- 1947 The Devil Thumbs a Ride
- 1936 The Walking Dead
- 1946 The Verdict as Housekeeper (uncredited)
