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).
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Movie | Carson City | Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited) | 1952-06-13 |
Movie | The Fuller Brush Girl | Mrs. East (uncredited) | 1950-09-15 |
Movie | Air Hostess | Bertha Hallum | 1949-08-25 |
Movie | Family Honeymoon | Mrs. Carp (uncredited) | 1948-12-06 |
Movie | The Main Street Kid | Mrs. Clauson | 1948-01-01 |
Movie | California Firebrand | Granny Hortense Mason | 1948-04-01 |
Movie | Good News | Miss Pritchard (uncredited) | 1947-12-04 |
Movie | The Bishop's Wife | Mrs. Duffy | 1947-12-25 |
Movie | Song of Arizona | Dolly Finnuccin | 1946-03-08 |
Movie | Undercurrent | Cora (uncredited) | 1946-11-11 |
Movie | It's a Wonderful Life | Mrs. Hatch | 1946-12-20 |
Movie | The Corn Is Green | Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited) | 1945-03-29 |
Movie | Lady on a Train | 1945-08-03 | |
Movie | Girls of the Big House | Dormitory Matron | 1945-11-02 |
Movie | Saratoga Trunk | Miss Diggs (uncredited) | 1945-11-21 |
Movie | Allotment Wives | Sadie | 1945-11-08 |
Movie | Charlie Chan in the Secret Service | Mrs. Hargue | 1944-02-14 |
Movie | Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid | Mrs. Bradley | 1944-04-01 |
Movie | Storm Over Lisbon | Maude Perry-Tonides | 1944-10-16 |
Movie | Henry Aldrich's Little Secret | Mrs. Bradley | 1944-06-10 |
Movie | Bathing Beauty | Faculty Member (uncredited) | 1944-06-27 |
Movie | Shadow of a Doubt | Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited) | 1943-01-15 |
Movie | Dixie Dugan | Mrs. Kelly | 1943-03-12 |
Movie | Nearly Eighteen | Miss Perkins | 1943-11-12 |
Movie | All by Myself | Mrs. Vincent | 1943-06-11 |
Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | 1942-03-20 | |
Movie | Dudes Are Pretty People | Miss Priddle | 1942-03-13 |
Movie | Sons of the Pioneers | Housekeeper | 1942-07-02 |
Movie | My Favorite Blonde | Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited) | 1942-04-02 |
Movie | Calling All Pa's | Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited) | 1942-10-24 |
Movie | Apache Trail | Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited) | 1942-09-01 |
Movie | The Forest Rangers | Mrs. Hansen (uncredited) | 1942-10-21 |
Movie | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Selma Quentin | 1942-10-01 |
Movie | Sunset in Wyoming | Susanna Hawkins Peabody | 1941-07-15 |
Movie | Tom, Dick and Harry | Mrs. Burton (uncredited) | 1941-06-13 |
Movie | Three Girls About Town | Clubwoman | 1941-10-23 |
Movie | Mr. District Attorney | Miss Petherby | 1941-03-27 |
Movie | Miss Polly | Angie Turner | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | I Wake Up Screaming | Customer (uncredited) | 1941-10-31 |
Movie | H.M. Pulham, Esq. | Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited) | 1941-12-04 |
Movie | One Foot in Heaven | Mrs. Spicer (uncredited) | 1941-11-01 |
Movie | New Moon | Marquise della Rosa | 1940-06-28 |
Movie | Lucky Cisco Kid | Spinster | 1940-06-28 |
Movie | The Shop Around the Corner | Woman Customer | 1940-01-12 |
Movie | Free, Blonde and 21 | Undetermined Role | 1940-03-28 |
Movie | Curtain Call | Literary Committee Member | 1940-04-18 |
Movie | Opened by Mistake | Mrs. Karff (uncredited) | 1940-05-10 |
Movie | Little Men | Landlady | 1940-11-29 |
Movie | The Invisible Woman | Showroom Buyer (uncredited) | 1940-12-28 |
Movie | Arise, My Love | Spinster (Uncredited) | 1940-11-08 |
Movie | Young People | Mrs. Stinchfield | 1940-08-30 |
Movie | Strike Up the Band | Miss Hodges | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | The Howards of Virginia | Neighbor Girl | 1940-09-19 |
Movie | Unmarried | Mrs. Jones | 1939-05-20 |
Movie | Coast Guard | Florence (uncredited) | 1939-08-04 |
Movie | Blondie Meets the Boss | Saleswoman (uncredited) | 1939-03-08 |
Movie | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Annie Rucker (uncredited) | 1939-02-10 |
Movie | Here I Am a Stranger | Chaperone at Dance | 1939-09-29 |
Movie | Boy Trouble | Mrs. Moots | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | Persons in Hiding | Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited) | 1939-02-10 |
Movie | Espionage Agent | Militant American Tourist | 1939-09-30 |
Movie | Too Busy to Work | 1939-11-17 | |
Movie | Remember? | Lady in Revolving Door | 1939-12-19 |
Movie | Meet Dr. Christian | Mrs. Minnows | 1939-11-17 |
Movie | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited) | 1939-11-22 |
Movie | Drunk Driving | Driver (uncredited) | 1939-10-28 |
Movie | Sabotage | (uncredited) | 1939-10-13 |
Movie | Merrily We Live | Mrs. Fleming | 1938-03-04 |
Movie | Judge Hardy's Children | Miss Adams (uncredited) | 1938-03-26 |
Movie | Gold Is Where You Find It | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1938-02-12 |
Movie | The Beloved Brat | School Board Member Miss Brundage | 1938-04-30 |
Movie | Love Is a Headache | Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited) | 1938-01-14 |
Movie | Women Are Like That | Mrs. Snell | 1938-04-23 |
Movie | A Doggone Mixup | 1938-12-05 | |
Movie | Woman Against Woman | Party Guest | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | The Cowboy and the Lady | Dinner Party Guest (uncredited) | 1938-11-17 |
Movie | The Shining Hour | Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited) | 1938-11-18 |
Movie | A Man to Remember | Clerk (uncredited) | 1938-10-14 |
Movie | Three Loves Has Nancy | Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited) | 1938-09-02 |
Movie | Big Business | Miss Collins - School Principal | 1937-06-18 |
Movie | We're on the Jury | Evelyn Bottomley | 1937-02-12 |
Movie | Public Wedding | Mrs. Van Drexel | 1937-07-09 |
Movie | The Awful Truth | Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited) | 1937-10-20 |
Movie | Varsity Show | Mrs. Biddle | 1937-09-04 |
Movie | It's Love I'm After | Mrs. Hinkle | 1937-10-08 |
Movie | The Golden Arrow | Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers | 1936-05-23 |
Movie | Colleen | First Society Woman (uncredited) | 1936-03-21 |
Movie | Early to Bed | Miss Barton | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | Palm Springs | Miss Pinchon | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | Theodora Goes Wild | Mrs. Moffat (uncredited) | 1936-11-12 |
Movie | Shadow of Doubt | Dowager in Taxi | 1935-02-15 |
Movie | Sweepstake Annie | Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited) | 1935-01-29 |
Movie | Two-Fisted | Abigail Adams | 1935-10-03 |
Movie | Ruggles of Red Gap | Mrs. Myron Carey | 1935-03-08 |
Movie | I Live My Life | Professor Douglas (Uncredited) | 1935-10-04 |
Movie | Stars Over Broadway | Woman Dancing with Fat Man | 1935-11-23 |
Movie | It's in the Air | Old Maid (uncredited) | 1935-10-10 |
Movie | My Grandfather's Clock | Housekeeper (uncredited) | 1934-10-27 |
Movie | The World Accuses | Lucille Weymouth | 1934-11-11 |
Movie | American Madness | Gossip on Phone (uncredited) | 1932-08-15 |
Movie | Wayward | Nurse (uncredited) | 1932-02-19 |
Movie | Glorifying the American Girl | Mrs. Hughes | 1929-12-07 |