Sarah Edwards
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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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Films (115)
Carson City
1952 · Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · Mrs. East (uncredited)
Air Hostess
1949 · Bertha Hallum
Family Honeymoon
1948 · Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
California Firebrand
1948 · Granny Hortense Mason
The Main Street Kid
1948 · Mrs. Clauson
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Mrs. Duffy
Good News
1947 · Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947 · Townswoman (uncredited)
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · Mrs. Hatch
Undercurrent
1946 · Cora (uncredited)
The Verdict
1946 · Housekeeper (uncredited)
Song of Arizona
1946 · Dolly Finnuccin
Girl on the Spot
1946 · Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
1945 · Miss Diggs (uncredited)
Allotment Wives
1945 · Sadie
Girls of the Big House
1945 · Dormitory Matron
Lady on a Train
1945
Two O'Clock Courage
1945 · Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
The Corn Is Green
1945 · Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
Storm Over Lisbon
1944 · Maude Perry-Tonides
Bathing Beauty
1944 · Faculty Member (uncredited)
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944 · Mrs. Bradley
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944 · Mrs. Bradley
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
1944 · Mrs. Hargue
Nearly Eighteen
1943 · Miss Perkins
All by Myself
1943 · Mrs. Vincent
Dixie Dugan
1943 · Mrs. Kelly
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
Calling All Pa's
1942 · Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
The Forest Rangers
1942 · Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942 · Selma Quentin
Apache Trail
1942 · Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
The Gay Sisters
1942 · Lady in Elevator (uncredited)
The Sons of the Pioneers
1942 · Housekeeper
My Favorite Blonde
1942 · Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942 · Miss Priddle
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
Miss Polly
1941 · Angie Turner
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
I Wake Up Screaming
1941 · Customer (uncredited)
Three Girls About Town
1941 · Clubwoman
Sunset in Wyoming
1941 · Susanna Hawkins Peabody
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941 · Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
Mr. District Attorney
1941 · Miss Petherby
The Face Behind the Mask
1941 · Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
The Invisible Woman
1940 · Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
Little Men
1940 · Landlady
Arise, My Love
1940 · Spinster (uncredited)
Strike Up the Band
1940 · Miss Hodges
The Howards of Virginia
1940 · Neighbor Girl
Young People
1940 · Mrs. Stinchfield
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940 · Spinster
New Moon
1940 · Marquise della Rosa
Opened by Mistake
1940 · Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
Curtain Call
1940 · Literary Committee Member
Free, Blonde and 21
1940 · Undetermined Role
The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · Woman Customer
Remember?
1939 · Lady in Revolving Door
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
Meet Dr. Christian
1939 · Mrs. Minnows
Too Busy to Work
1939
Drunk Driving
1939 · Driver (uncredited)
Sabotage
1939 · (uncredited)
Espionage Agent
1939 · Militant American Tourist
Here I Am a Stranger
1939 · Chaperone at Dance
Coast Guard
1939 · Florence (uncredited)
Unmarried
1939 · Mrs. Jones
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939 · Saleswoman (uncredited)
Persons in Hiding
1939 · Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939 · Annie Rucker (uncredited)
Boy Trouble
1939 · Mrs. Moots
A Doggone Mixup
1938
The Shining Hour
1938 · Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938 · Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
A Man to Remember
1938 · Clerk (uncredited)
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938 · Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Party Guest
The Beloved Brat
1938 · School Board Member Miss Brundage
Women Are Like That
1938 · Mrs. Snell
Judge Hardy's Children
1938 · Miss Adams (uncredited)
Merrily We Live
1938 · Mrs. Fleming
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938 · Party Guest (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
1938 · Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
The Awful Truth
1937 · Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
It's Love I'm After
1937 · Mrs. Hinkle
Varsity Show
1937 · Mrs. Biddle
Public Wedding
1937 · Mrs. Van Drexel
Big Business
1937 · Miss Collins - School Principal
We're on the Jury
1937 · Evelyn Bottomley
The General Died at Dawn
1936 · Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
Theodora Goes Wild
1936 · Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Gentleman
1936 · Mrs. O'Shea
Palm Springs
1936 · Miss Pinchon
Early to Bed
1936 · Miss Barton
The Golden Arrow
1936 · Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
Colleen
1936 · First Society Woman (uncredited)
The Walking Dead
1936
Stars Over Broadway
1935 · Woman Dancing with Fat Man
It's in the Air
1935 · Old Maid (uncredited)
I Live My Life
1935 · Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
Two-Fisted
1935 · Abigail Adams
People Will Talk
1935 · Martie Beemish
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · Mrs. Myron Carey
Shadow of Doubt
1935 · Dowager in Taxi
Sweepstake Annie
1935 · Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
The World Accuses
1934 · Lucille Weymouth
My Grandfather's Clock
1934 · Housekeeper (uncredited)
American Madness
1932 · Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
Wayward
1932 · Nurse (uncredited)
Glorifying the American Girl
1929 · Mrs. Hughes
Two Americans
1929
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