About

Known credits:
108
Birthday:
1881-10-09
Place of birth:
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Website:
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Sarah Edwards

Overview

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).

Known for

Acting

1952 Carson City Actor Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited) 58
Average
1950 The Fuller Brush Girl Actor Mrs. East (uncredited) 58
Average
1949 Air Hostess Actor Bertha Hallum 58
Average
1948 Family Honeymoon Actor Mrs. Carp (uncredited) 58
Average
1948 California Firebrand Actor Granny Hortense Mason 58
Average
1948 The Main Street Kid Actor Mrs. Clauson N/A
N/A
1947 The Bishop's Wife Actor Mrs. Duffy 62
Fair
1947 Good News Actor Miss Pritchard (uncredited) 58
Average
1946 It's a Wonderful Life Actor Mrs. Hatch 80
Very good
1946 Undercurrent Actor Cora (uncredited) 58
Average
1946 Song of Arizona Actor Dolly Finnuccin 58
Average
1945 Saratoga Trunk Actor Miss Diggs (uncredited) 58
Average
1945 Allotment Wives Actor Sadie 59
Average
1945 Girls of the Big House Actor Dormitory Matron 58
Average
1945 Lady on a Train Actor 59
Average
1945 Two O'Clock Courage Actor Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited) 58
Average
1945 The Corn Is Green Actor Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited) 59
Average
1944 Storm Over Lisbon Actor Maude Perry-Tonides 58
Average
1944 Bathing Beauty Actor Faculty Member (uncredited) 58
Average
1944 Henry Aldrich's Little Secret Actor Mrs. Bradley N/A
N/A
1944 Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid Actor Mrs. Bradley N/A
N/A
1944 Charlie Chan in the Secret Service Actor Mrs. Hargue 58
Average
1943 Nearly Eighteen Actor Miss Perkins 58
Average
1943 All by Myself Actor Mrs. Vincent N/A
N/A
1943 Dixie Dugan Actor Mrs. Kelly 59
Average
1943 Shadow of a Doubt Actor Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited) 69
Fair
1942 Calling All Pa's Actor Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited) 58
Average
1942 The Forest Rangers Actor Mrs. Hansen (uncredited) N/A
N/A
1942 Scattergood Survives a Murder Actor Selma Quentin 58
Average
1942 Apache Trail Actor Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited) 59
Average
1942 Sons of the Pioneers Actor Housekeeper N/A
N/A
1942 My Favorite Blonde Actor Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited) 58
Average
1942 Rings on Her Fingers Actor 58
Average
1942 Dudes Are Pretty People Actor Miss Priddle N/A
N/A
1941 H.M. Pulham, Esq. Actor Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited) 59
Average
1941 Miss Polly Actor Angie Turner 58
Average
1941 One Foot in Heaven Actor Mrs. Spicer (uncredited) 59
Average
1941 I Wake Up Screaming Actor Customer (uncredited) 59
Average
1941 Three Girls About Town Actor Clubwoman 58
Average
1941 Sunset in Wyoming Actor Susanna Hawkins Peabody N/A
N/A
1941 Tom, Dick and Harry Actor Mrs. Burton (uncredited) 58
Average
1941 Mr. District Attorney Actor Miss Petherby 59
Average
1941 The Face Behind the Mask Actor Mrs. Perkins (uncredited) 59
Average
1940 The Invisible Woman Actor Showroom Buyer (uncredited) 58
Average
1940 Little Men Actor Landlady 59
Average
1940 Arise, My Love Actor Spinster (Uncredited) 58
Average
1940 Strike Up the Band Actor Miss Hodges 58
Average
1940 The Howards of Virginia Actor Neighbor Girl 58
Average
1940 Young People Actor Mrs. Stinchfield 58
Average
1940 New Moon Actor Marquise della Rosa 58
Average
1940 Lucky Cisco Kid Actor Spinster 59
Average
1940 Opened by Mistake Actor Mrs. Karff (uncredited) N/A
N/A
1940 Curtain Call Actor Literary Committee Member 58
Average
1940 Free, Blonde and 21 Actor Undetermined Role 59
Average
1940 The Shop Around the Corner Actor Woman Customer 72
Good
1939 Remember? Actor Lady in Revolving Door 58
Average
1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams Actor Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited) 58
Average
1939 Too Busy to Work Actor N/A
N/A
1939 Meet Dr. Christian Actor Mrs. Minnows N/A
N/A
1939 Drunk Driving Actor Driver (uncredited) 58
Average
1939 Sabotage Actor (uncredited) 58
Average
1939 Espionage Agent Actor Militant American Tourist 59
Average
1939 Here I Am a Stranger Actor Chaperone at Dance 58
Average
1939 Coast Guard Actor Florence (uncredited) 58
Average
1939 Unmarried Actor Mrs. Jones 58
Average
1939 Blondie Meets the Boss Actor Saleswoman (uncredited) 59
Average
1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Actor Annie Rucker (uncredited) 59
Average
1939 Persons in Hiding Actor Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited) 58
Average
1939 Boy Trouble Actor Mrs. Moots 58
Average
1938 A Doggone Mixup Actor N/A
N/A
1938 The Shining Hour Actor Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited) 59
Average
1938 The Cowboy and the Lady Actor Dinner Party Guest (uncredited) 58
Average
1938 A Man to Remember Actor Clerk (uncredited) 59
Average
1938 Three Loves Has Nancy Actor Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited) 58
Average
1938 Woman Against Woman Actor Party Guest 58
Average
1938 The Beloved Brat Actor School Board Member Miss Brundage 58
Average
1938 Women Are Like That Actor Mrs. Snell 59
Average
1938 Judge Hardy's Children Actor Miss Adams (uncredited) 58
Average
1938 Merrily We Live Actor Mrs. Fleming 59
Average
1938 Gold Is Where You Find It Actor Party Guest (uncredited) 59
Average
1938 Love Is a Headache Actor Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited) 58
Average
1937 The Awful Truth Actor Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited) 63
Fair
1937 It's Love I'm After Actor Mrs. Hinkle 59
Average
1937 Varsity Show Actor Mrs. Biddle 59
Average
1937 Public Wedding Actor Mrs. Van Drexel 59
Average
1937 Big Business Actor Miss Collins - School Principal 59
Average
1937 We're on the Jury Actor Evelyn Bottomley 59
Average
1936 The General Died at Dawn Actor Companion of American without Matches (uncredited) 58
Average
1936 Theodora Goes Wild Actor Mrs. Moffat (uncredited) 59
Average
1936 Two-Fisted Gentleman Actor Mrs. O'Shea N/A
N/A
1936 Palm Springs Actor Miss Pinchon N/A
N/A
1936 Early to Bed Actor Miss Barton 59
Average
1936 The Golden Arrow Actor Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers 58
Average
1936 Colleen Actor First Society Woman (uncredited) 59
Average
1935 Stars Over Broadway Actor Woman Dancing with Fat Man 58
Average
1935 It's in the Air Actor Old Maid (uncredited) 58
Average
1935 I Live My Life Actor Professor Douglas (Uncredited) 58
Average
1935 Two-Fisted Actor Abigail Adams 59
Average
1935 People Will Talk Actor Martie Beemish 58
Average
1935 Ruggles of Red Gap Actor Mrs. Myron Carey 60
Fair
1935 Shadow of Doubt Actor Dowager in Taxi 58
Average
1935 Sweepstake Annie Actor Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited) 58
Average
1934 The World Accuses Actor Lucille Weymouth N/A
N/A
1934 My Grandfather's Clock Actor Housekeeper (uncredited) 58
Average
1932 American Madness Actor Gossip on Phone (uncredited) 59
Average
1932 Wayward Actor Nurse (uncredited) 59
Average
1929 Glorifying the American Girl Actor Mrs. Hughes 58
Average
1929 Two Americans Actor N/A
N/A