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).
★8.3
MOVIE1946
It's a Wonderful Life
as Mrs. Hatch
★8.1
MOVIE1940
The Shop Around the Corner
as Woman Customer
★5.9
MOVIE1944
Bathing Beauty
as Faculty Member (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1943
Shadow of a Doubt
as Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1948
Family Honeymoon
as Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1940
Young People
as Mrs. Stinchfield
★6.3
MOVIE1932
Wayward
as Nurse (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1935
Sweepstake Annie
as Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1942
The Forest Rangers
as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1939
Unmarried
as Mrs. Jones
★7.2
MOVIE1937
The Awful Truth
as Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1940
Arise, My Love
as Spinster (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1938
Merrily We Live
as Mrs. Fleming
★4.2
MOVIE1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
★4.6
MOVIE1946
Song of Arizona
as Dolly Finnuccin
★7.1
MOVIE1947
The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Duffy
★7.0
MOVIE1929
Two Americans
★8.0
MOVIE1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
as Miss Priddle
★5.9
MOVIE1946
Undercurrent
as Cora (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Mrs. East (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1941
I Wake Up Screaming
as Customer (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1942
The Sons of the Pioneers
as Housekeeper
★5.7
MOVIE1940
The Invisible Woman
as Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1942
Rings on Her Fingers
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Lady on a Train
★5.4
MOVIE1944
Storm Over Lisbon
as Maude Perry-Tonides
★6.7
MOVIE1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Annie Rucker (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1936
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1940
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Party Guest (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Petherby
★6.3
MOVIE1936
The Walking Dead
★5.6
MOVIE1935
Stars Over Broadway
as Woman Dancing with Fat Man
★6.5
MOVIE1941
The Face Behind the Mask
as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1945
Saratoga Trunk
as Miss Diggs (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1934
The World Accuses
as Lucille Weymouth
★6.7
MOVIE1938
The Shining Hour
as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1946
Girl on the Spot
as Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1932
American Madness
as Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1949
Air Hostess
as Bertha Hallum
★6.4
MOVIE1947
Good News
as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1936
The General Died at Dawn
as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1938
A Doggone Mixup
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Early to Bed
as Miss Barton
★7.1
MOVIE1937
It's Love I'm After
as Mrs. Hinkle
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Adams (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Tom, Dick and Harry
as Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Sunset in Wyoming
as Susanna Hawkins Peabody
★7.1
MOVIE1935
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Mrs. Myron Carey
★6.7
MOVIE1938
A Man to Remember
as Clerk (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1948
California Firebrand
as Granny Hortense Mason
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Three Girls About Town
as Clubwoman
★5.6
MOVIE1929
Glorifying the American Girl
as Mrs. Hughes
★7.3
MOVIE1939
Here I Am a Stranger
as Chaperone at Dance
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Espionage Agent
as Militant American Tourist
★6.2
MOVIE1952
Carson City
as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1937
Varsity Show
as Mrs. Biddle
★3.8
MOVIE1939
Persons in Hiding
as Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1942
My Favorite Blonde
as Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Apache Trail
as Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Dixie Dugan
as Mrs. Kelly
★6.6
MOVIE1935
Shadow of Doubt
as Dowager in Taxi
★6.7
MOVIE1935
I Live My Life
as Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Nearly Eighteen
as Miss Perkins
★5.5
MOVIE1940
Little Men
as Landlady
★6.5
MOVIE1938
Love Is a Headache
as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1945
The Corn Is Green
as Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1943
All by Myself
as Mrs. Vincent
★7.1
MOVIE1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Lucky Cisco Kid
as Spinster
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Public Wedding
as Mrs. Van Drexel
★6.6
MOVIE1940
Strike Up the Band
as Miss Hodges
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Remember?
as Lady in Revolving Door
★6.3
MOVIE1935
It's in the Air
as Old Maid (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1941
One Foot in Heaven
as Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Women Are Like That
as Mrs. Snell
★6.3
MOVIE1945
Two O'Clock Courage
as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1934
My Grandfather's Clock
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1947
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
★6.5
MOVIE1938
The Beloved Brat
as School Board Member Miss Brundage
★5.8
MOVIE1939
Drunk Driving
as Driver (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1940
New Moon
as Marquise della Rosa
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Woman Against Woman
as Party Guest
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Coast Guard
as Florence (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Selma Quentin
★6.2
MOVIE1937
We're on the Jury
as Evelyn Bottomley
★7.3
MOVIE1940
Curtain Call
as Literary Committee Member
★5.8
MOVIE1936
Colleen
as First Society Woman (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1939
Blondie Meets the Boss
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Two-Fisted Gentleman
as Mrs. O'Shea
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Moots
★10.0
MOVIE1944
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
as Mrs. Bradley
★7.5
MOVIE1945
Girls of the Big House
as Dormitory Matron
★10.0
MOVIE1948
The Main Street Kid
as Mrs. Clauson
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Meet Dr. Christian
as Mrs. Minnows
★6.1
MOVIE1944
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
as Mrs. Hargue
★6.3
MOVIE1936
The Golden Arrow
as Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
★4.9
MOVIE1941
Miss Polly
as Angie Turner
★7.3
MOVIE1940
Free, Blonde and 21
as Undetermined Role
★4.3
MOVIE1935
People Will Talk
as Martie Beemish
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Palm Springs
as Miss Pinchon
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
as Mrs. Bradley
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Allotment Wives
as Sadie
★7.5
MOVIE1937
Big Business
as Miss Collins - School Principal
★8.5
MOVIE1935
Two-Fisted
as Abigail Adams
★10.0
MOVIE1939
Too Busy to Work
★6.7
MOVIE1942
Calling All Pa's
as Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)