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