Cast
Sarah Edwards
Acting
Cast
Sarah Edwards
Known for
Acting
Born
1881-10-11
From
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Died
1965-01-07
Also known as Sara 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).
It's a Wonderful Life
as Mrs. Hatch
The Shop Around the Corner
as Woman Customer
Undercurrent
as Cora (uncredited)
Shadow of a Doubt
as Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
Bathing Beauty
as Faculty Member (uncredited)
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Moots
American Madness
as Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Annie Rucker (uncredited)
Public Wedding
as Mrs. Van Drexel
Apache Trail
as Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Young People
as Mrs. Stinchfield
The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Duffy
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
Allotment Wives
as Sadie
Three Girls About Town
as Clubwoman
Carson City
as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
Merrily We Live
as Mrs. Fleming
Song of Arizona
as Dolly Finnuccin
Espionage Agent
as Militant American Tourist
Good News
as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Mrs. East (uncredited)
Air Hostess
as Bertha Hallum
The Awful Truth
as Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
Unmarried
as Mrs. Jones
It's Love I'm After
as Mrs. Hinkle
I Wake Up Screaming
as Customer (uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
as Miss Diggs (uncredited)
Strike Up the Band
as Miss Hodges
Coast Guard
as Florence (uncredited)
Curtain Call
as Literary Committee Member
The Invisible Woman
as Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
Family Honeymoon
as Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
Woman Against Woman
as Party Guest
The Face Behind the Mask
as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
New Moon
as Marquise della Rosa
The Shining Hour
as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
Early to Bed
as Miss Barton
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Sunset in Wyoming
as Susanna Hawkins Peabody
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Mrs. Myron Carey
The Corn Is Green
as Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
Remember?
as Lady in Revolving Door
My Favorite Blonde
as Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
The General Died at Dawn
as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
Little Men
as Landlady
Miss Polly
as Angie Turner
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
Tom, Dick and Harry
as Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
I Live My Life
as Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
The Beloved Brat
as School Board Member Miss Brundage
Lady on a Train
Persons in Hiding
as Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
A Man to Remember
as Clerk (uncredited)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
as Mrs. Hargue
Two O'Clock Courage
as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Gentleman
as Mrs. O'Shea
Arise, My Love
as Spinster (uncredited)
Glorifying the American Girl
as Mrs. Hughes
Storm Over Lisbon
as Maude Perry-Tonides
Women Are Like That
as Mrs. Snell
My Grandfather's Clock
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
Sweepstake Annie
as Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
Lucky Cisco Kid
as Spinster
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Selma Quentin
California Firebrand
as Granny Hortense Mason
The World Accuses
as Lucille Weymouth
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Adams (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
as Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
Rings on Her Fingers
A Doggone Mixup
It's in the Air
as Old Maid (uncredited)
Colleen
as First Society Woman (uncredited)
Blondie Meets the Boss
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
Stars Over Broadway
as Woman Dancing with Fat Man
Varsity Show
as Mrs. Biddle
Palm Springs
as Miss Pinchon
We're on the Jury
as Evelyn Bottomley
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
Too Busy to Work
The Forest Rangers
as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
Girls of the Big House
as Dormitory Matron
Meet Dr. Christian
as Mrs. Minnows
Two Americans
The Golden Arrow
as Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
Dixie Dugan
as Mrs. Kelly
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Petherby
All by Myself
as Mrs. Vincent
Shadow of Doubt
as Dowager in Taxi
Free, Blonde and 21
as Undetermined Role
Here I Am a Stranger
as Chaperone at Dance
Nearly Eighteen
as Miss Perkins
The Main Street Kid
as Mrs. Clauson
Dudes Are Pretty People
as Miss Priddle
Drunk Driving
as Driver (uncredited)
People Will Talk
as Martie Beemish
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
as Mrs. Bradley
Girl on the Spot
as Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
Sons of the Pioneers
as Housekeeper
Two-Fisted
as Abigail Adams
Wayward
as Nurse (uncredited)
Big Business
as Miss Collins - School Principal
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
as Mrs. Bradley
Calling All Pa's
as Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)