
Sarah Edwards
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 11, 1881
- Died
- January 7, 1965 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- 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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Filmography

Carson City
Movie · as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)

The Fuller Brush Girl
Movie · as Mrs. East (uncredited)

Air Hostess
Movie · as Bertha Hallum

California Firebrand
Movie · as Granny Hortense Mason

Family Honeymoon
Movie · as Mrs. Carp (uncredited)

The Main Street Kid
Movie · as Mrs. Clauson

The Bishop's Wife
Movie · as Mrs. Duffy

Good News
Movie · as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Movie · as Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)

The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Movie

My Brother Talks to Horses
Movie · as Townswoman (uncredited)

It's a Wonderful Life
Movie · as Mrs. Hatch

Song of Arizona
Movie · as Dolly Finnuccin

Undercurrent
Movie · as Cora (uncredited)

Girl on the Spot
Movie · as Mrs. Richards (uncredited)

The Verdict
Movie · as Housekeeper (uncredited)

Allotment Wives
Movie · as Sadie

Saratoga Trunk
Movie · as Miss Diggs (uncredited)

Lady on a Train
Movie

Girls of the Big House
Movie · as Dormitory Matron

Two O'Clock Courage
Movie · as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)

The Corn Is Green
Movie · as Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Movie · as Mrs. Hargue

Storm Over Lisbon
Movie · as Maude Perry-Tonides

Bathing Beauty
Movie · as Faculty Member (uncredited)

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Movie · as Mrs. Bradley

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Movie · as Mrs. Bradley

Shadow of a Doubt
Movie · as Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)

Dixie Dugan
Movie · as Mrs. Kelly

All by Myself
Movie · as Mrs. Vincent

Nearly Eighteen
Movie · as Miss Perkins

Scattergood Survives a Murder
Movie · as Selma Quentin

My Favorite Blonde
Movie · as Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)

Dudes Are Pretty People
Movie · as Miss Priddle

The Forest Rangers
Movie · as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

The Sons of the Pioneers
Movie · as Housekeeper

Apache Trail
Movie · as Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)

Calling All Pa's
Movie · as Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)

Rings on Her Fingers
Movie

The Gay Sisters
Movie · as Lady in Elevator (uncredited)

Miss Polly
Movie · as Angie Turner

H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Movie · as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)

Sunset in Wyoming
Movie · as Susanna Hawkins Peabody

Three Girls About Town
Movie · as Clubwoman

Mr. District Attorney
Movie · as Miss Petherby

I Wake Up Screaming
Movie · as Customer (uncredited)

Tom, Dick and Harry
Movie · as Mrs. Burton (uncredited)

One Foot in Heaven
Movie · as Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)

The Face Behind the Mask
Movie · as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)

The Shop Around the Corner
Movie · as Woman Customer

Young People
Movie · as Mrs. Stinchfield

Lucky Cisco Kid
Movie · as Spinster

Opened by Mistake
Movie · as Mrs. Karff (uncredited)

The Invisible Woman
Movie · as Showroom Buyer (uncredited)

Strike Up the Band
Movie · as Miss Hodges

The Howards of Virginia
Movie · as Neighbor Girl

Arise, My Love
Movie · as Spinster (uncredited)

New Moon
Movie · as Marquise della Rosa

Little Men
Movie · as Landlady

Free, Blonde and 21
Movie · as Undetermined Role

Curtain Call
Movie · as Literary Committee Member

Persons in Hiding
Movie · as Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

Boy Trouble
Movie · as Mrs. Moots

Meet Dr. Christian
Movie · as Mrs. Minnows

The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie · as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie · as Annie Rucker (uncredited)

Blondie Meets the Boss
Movie · as Saleswoman (uncredited)

Coast Guard
Movie · as Florence (uncredited)

Remember?
Movie · as Lady in Revolving Door

Espionage Agent
Movie · as Militant American Tourist

Here I Am a Stranger
Movie · as Chaperone at Dance

Sabotage
Movie · as (uncredited)

Too Busy to Work
Movie

Drunk Driving
Movie · as Driver (uncredited)

Unmarried
Movie · as Mrs. Jones

The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie · as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)

Three Loves Has Nancy
Movie · as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)

A Doggone Mixup
Movie

Judge Hardy's Children
Movie · as Miss Adams (uncredited)

Merrily We Live
Movie · as Mrs. Fleming

A Man to Remember
Movie · as Clerk (uncredited)

Love Is a Headache
Movie · as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)

Woman Against Woman
Movie · as Party Guest

The Beloved Brat
Movie · as School Board Member Miss Brundage

Women Are Like That
Movie · as Mrs. Snell

The Shining Hour
Movie · as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)

Gold Is Where You Find It
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

It's Love I'm After
Movie · as Mrs. Hinkle

Public Wedding
Movie · as Mrs. Van Drexel

Varsity Show
Movie · as Mrs. Biddle

The Awful Truth
Movie · as Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)

Big Business
Movie · as Miss Collins - School Principal

We're on the Jury
Movie · as Evelyn Bottomley

Theodora Goes Wild
Movie · as Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)

Two-Fisted Gentleman
Movie · as Mrs. O'Shea

Palm Springs
Movie · as Miss Pinchon

Colleen
Movie · as First Society Woman (uncredited)

The Golden Arrow
Movie · as Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers

Early to Bed
Movie · as Miss Barton

The General Died at Dawn
Movie · as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)

The Walking Dead
Movie

Shadow of Doubt
Movie · as Dowager in Taxi

Two-Fisted
Movie · as Abigail Adams

Stars Over Broadway
Movie · as Woman Dancing with Fat Man

It's in the Air
Movie · as Old Maid (uncredited)

I Live My Life
Movie · as Professor Douglas (Uncredited)

Ruggles of Red Gap
Movie · as Mrs. Myron Carey
Sweepstake Annie
Movie · as Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)

People Will Talk
Movie · as Martie Beemish

My Grandfather's Clock
Movie · as Housekeeper (uncredited)

The World Accuses
Movie · as Lucille Weymouth

Wayward
Movie · as Nurse (uncredited)

American Madness
Movie · as Gossip on Phone (uncredited)

Glorifying the American Girl
Movie · as Mrs. Hughes
Two Americans
Movie

