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).
Acted in 113
1950s
- 1952
- 1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
Mrs. East (uncredited)
1940s
- 1949
Air Hostess
Bertha Hallum
- 1948
Family Honeymoon
Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
California Firebrand
Granny Hortense Mason
The Main Street Kid
Mrs. Clauson
- 1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Movie
My Brother Talks to Horses
Townswoman (uncredited)
- 1946
Girl on the Spot
Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
- 1945
Allotment Wives
Sadie
Girls of the Big House
Dormitory Matron
Lady on a Train
Movie
Two O'Clock Courage
Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
- 1944
Storm Over Lisbon
Maude Perry-Tonides
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Mrs. Bradley
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Mrs. Bradley
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Mrs. Hargue
- 1943
Nearly Eighteen
Miss Perkins
All by Myself
Mrs. Vincent
Dixie Dugan
Mrs. Kelly
- 1942
Calling All Pa's
Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Selma Quentin
Apache Trail
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
The Gay Sisters
Lady in Elevator (uncredited)
My Favorite Blonde
Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
Dudes Are Pretty People
Miss Priddle
- 1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
Miss Polly
Angie Turner
One Foot in Heaven
Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
I Wake Up Screaming
Customer (uncredited)
Three Girls About Town
Clubwoman
Sunset in Wyoming
Susanna Hawkins Peabody
Tom, Dick and Harry
Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
- 1940
The Invisible Woman
Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
Little Men
Landlady
Arise, My Love
Spinster (uncredited)
The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
Young People
Mrs. Stinchfield
Lucky Cisco Kid
Spinster
Opened by Mistake
Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
Curtain Call
Literary Committee Member
Free, Blonde and 21
Undetermined Role
1930s
- 1939
Remember?
Lady in Revolving Door
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
Meet Dr. Christian
Mrs. Minnows
Too Busy to Work
Movie
Drunk Driving
Driver (uncredited)
Sabotage
(uncredited)
Espionage Agent
Militant American Tourist
Here I Am a Stranger
Chaperone at Dance
Coast Guard
Florence (uncredited)
Unmarried
Mrs. Jones
Blondie Meets the Boss
Saleswoman (uncredited)
Persons in Hiding
Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Annie Rucker (uncredited)
Boy Trouble
Mrs. Moots
- 1938
A Doggone Mixup
Movie
The Shining Hour
Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
A Man to Remember
Clerk (uncredited)
Woman Against Woman
Party Guest
The Beloved Brat
School Board Member Miss Brundage
Women Are Like That
Mrs. Snell
Judge Hardy's Children
Miss Adams (uncredited)
Gold Is Where You Find It
Party Guest (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
- 1937
Varsity Show
Mrs. Biddle
Public Wedding
Mrs. Van Drexel
Big Business
Miss Collins - School Principal
We're on the Jury
Evelyn Bottomley
- 1936
The General Died at Dawn
Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
Theodora Goes Wild
Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Gentleman
Mrs. O'Shea
Palm Springs
Miss Pinchon
Early to Bed
Miss Barton
The Golden Arrow
Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
Colleen
First Society Woman (uncredited)
- 1935
Stars Over Broadway
Woman Dancing with Fat Man
It's in the Air
Old Maid (uncredited)
I Live My Life
Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
Two-Fisted
Abigail Adams
People Will Talk
Martie Beemish
Shadow of Doubt
Dowager in Taxi
- 1934
The World Accuses
Lucille Weymouth
My Grandfather's Clock
Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1932
American Madness
Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
Wayward
Nurse (uncredited)
1920s
- 1929
