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