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