Sarah Edwards
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1881-10-09
Day of Death
1965-01-07 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Sarah Edwards
Biography
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
as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
(1950)
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Mrs. East (uncredited)
(1949)
Air Hostess
as Bertha Hallum
(1948)
Family Honeymoon
as Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
(1948)
The Main Street Kid
as Mrs. Clauson
(1948)
California Firebrand
as Granny Hortense Mason
(1947)
Good News
as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
(1947)
The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Duffy
(1946)
It's a Wonderful Life
as Mrs. Hatch
(1946)
Undercurrent
as Cora (uncredited)
(1946)
Song of Arizona
as Dolly Finnuccin
(1945)
Allotment Wives
as Sadie
(1945)
Girls of the Big House
as Dormitory Matron
(1945)
Saratoga Trunk
as Miss Diggs (uncredited)
(1945)
(1945)
Two O'Clock Courage
as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
(1945)
The Corn Is Green
as Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
(1944)
Storm Over Lisbon
as Maude Perry-Tonides
(1944)
Bathing Beauty
as Faculty Member (uncredited)
(1944)
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
as Mrs. Bradley
(1944)
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
as Mrs. Bradley
(1944)
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
as Mrs. Hargue
(1943)
Shadow of a Doubt
as Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
(1943)
Nearly Eighteen
as Miss Perkins
(1943)
Dixie Dugan
as Mrs. Kelly
(1943)
All by Myself
as Mrs. Vincent
(1942)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Selma Quentin
(1942)
Sons of the Pioneers
as Housekeeper
(1942)
The Forest Rangers
as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
(1942)
Calling All Pa's
as Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
(1942)
My Favorite Blonde
as Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
(1942)
Apache Trail
as Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
(1942)
(1942)
Dudes Are Pretty People
as Miss Priddle
(1941)
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
(1941)
One Foot in Heaven
as Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
(1941)
The Face Behind the Mask
as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
(1941)
I Wake Up Screaming
as Customer (uncredited)
(1941)
Sunset in Wyoming
as Susanna Hawkins Peabody
(1941)
Three Girls About Town
as Clubwoman
(1941)
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Petherby
(1941)
Miss Polly
as Angie Turner
(1941)
Tom, Dick and Harry
as Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
(1940)
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
(1940)
New Moon
as Marquise della Rosa
(1940)
Arise, My Love
as Spinster (Uncredited)
(1940)
The Shop Around the Corner
as Woman Customer
(1940)
Strike Up the Band
as Miss Hodges
(1940)
The Invisible Woman
as Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
(1940)
Curtain Call
as Literary Committee Member
(1940)
Young People
as Mrs. Stinchfield
(1940)
Little Men
as Landlady
(1940)
Lucky Cisco Kid
as Spinster
(1940)
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
(1940)
Free, Blonde and 21
as Undetermined Role
(1939)
Persons in Hiding
as Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
(1939)
(1939)
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Moots
(1939)
Remember?
as Lady in Revolving Door
(1939)
Drunk Driving
as Driver (uncredited)
(1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
(1939)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Annie Rucker (uncredited)
(1939)
Espionage Agent
as Militant American Tourist
(1939)
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
(1939)
Coast Guard
as Florence (uncredited)
(1939)
Here I Am a Stranger
as Chaperone at Dance
(1939)
Blondie Meets the Boss
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
(1939)
Unmarried
as Mrs. Jones
(1939)
Meet Dr. Christian
as Mrs. Minnows
(1938)
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Adams (uncredited)
(1938)
Love Is a Headache
as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
(1938)
A Man to Remember
as Clerk (uncredited)
(1938)
The Shining Hour
as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
(1938)
The Beloved Brat
as School Board Member Miss Brundage
(1938)
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
(1938)
Merrily We Live
as Mrs. Fleming
(1938)
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1938)
Woman Against Woman
as Party Guest
(1938)
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
(1938)
Women Are Like That
as Mrs. Snell
(1938)
(1937)
Public Wedding
as Mrs. Van Drexel
(1937)
The Awful Truth
as Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
(1937)
Big Business
as Miss Collins - School Principal
(1937)
It's Love I'm After
as Mrs. Hinkle
(1937)
Varsity Show
as Mrs. Biddle
(1937)
We're on the Jury
as Evelyn Bottomley
(1936)
Early to Bed
as Miss Barton
(1936)
Palm Springs
as Miss Pinchon
(1936)
The Golden Arrow
as Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
(1936)
Colleen
as First Society Woman (uncredited)
(1936)
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
(1936)
The General Died at Dawn
as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
(1936)
Two-Fisted Gentleman
as Mrs. O'Shea
(1935)
I Live My Life
as Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
(1935)
People Will Talk
as Martie Beemish
(1935)
It's in the Air
as Old Maid (uncredited)
(1935)
Shadow of Doubt
as Dowager in Taxi
(1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Mrs. Myron Carey
(1935)
Sweepstake Annie
as Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
(1935)
Two-Fisted
as Abigail Adams
(1935)
Stars Over Broadway
as Woman Dancing with Fat Man
(1934)
My Grandfather's Clock
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
(1934)
The World Accuses
as Lucille Weymouth
(1932)
American Madness
as Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
(1932)
Wayward
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1929)
Glorifying the American Girl
as Mrs. Hughes
(1929)