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