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

It's a Wonderful Life

The Shop Around the Corner

Shadow of a Doubt

The Bishop's Wife

The Awful Truth

Undercurrent

Carson City

Bathing Beauty

All Movies (111)

• Carson City1952 · as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
• The Fuller Brush Girl1950 · as Mrs. East (uncredited)
• Air Hostess1949 · as Bertha Hallum
• Family Honeymoon1948 · as Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
• California Firebrand1948 · as Granny Hortense Mason
• The Main Street Kid1948 · as Mrs. Clauson
• The Bishop's Wife1947 · as Mrs. Duffy
• Good News1947 · as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
• The Romance of Rosy Ridge1947 · as Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
• The Devil Thumbs a Ride1947
• It's a Wonderful Life1946 · as Mrs. Hatch
• Undercurrent1946 · as Cora (uncredited)
• Song of Arizona1946 · as Dolly Finnuccin
• Girl on the Spot1946 · as Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
• Saratoga Trunk1945 · as Miss Diggs (uncredited)
• Allotment Wives1945 · as Sadie
• Girls of the Big House1945 · as Dormitory Matron
• Lady on a Train1945
• Two O'Clock Courage1945 · as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
• The Corn Is Green1945 · as Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
• Storm Over Lisbon1944 · as Maude Perry-Tonides
• Bathing Beauty1944 · as Faculty Member (uncredited)
• Henry Aldrich's Little Secret1944 · as Mrs. Bradley
• Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid1944 · as Mrs. Bradley
• Charlie Chan in the Secret Service1944 · as Mrs. Hargue
• Nearly Eighteen1943 · as Miss Perkins
• All by Myself1943 · as Mrs. Vincent
• Dixie Dugan1943 · as Mrs. Kelly
• Shadow of a Doubt1943 · as Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
• Calling All Pa's1942 · as Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
• The Forest Rangers1942 · as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
• Scattergood Survives a Murder1942 · as Selma Quentin
• Apache Trail1942 · as Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
• The Sons of the Pioneers1942 · as Housekeeper
• My Favorite Blonde1942 · as Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
• Rings on Her Fingers1942
• Dudes Are Pretty People1942 · as Miss Priddle
• H.M. Pulham, Esq.1941 · as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
• Miss Polly1941 · as Angie Turner
• One Foot in Heaven1941 · as Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
• I Wake Up Screaming1941 · as Customer (uncredited)
• Three Girls About Town1941 · as Clubwoman
• Sunset in Wyoming1941 · as Susanna Hawkins Peabody
• Tom, Dick and Harry1941 · as Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
• Mr. District Attorney1941 · as Miss Petherby
• The Face Behind the Mask1941 · as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
• The Invisible Woman1940 · as Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
• Little Men1940 · as Landlady
• Arise, My Love1940 · as Spinster (uncredited)
• Strike Up the Band1940 · as Miss Hodges
• The Howards of Virginia1940 · as Neighbor Girl
• Young People1940 · as Mrs. Stinchfield
• Lucky Cisco Kid1940 · as Spinster
• New Moon1940 · as Marquise della Rosa
• Opened by Mistake1940 · as Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
• Curtain Call1940 · as Literary Committee Member
• Free, Blonde and 211940 · as Undetermined Role
• The Shop Around the Corner1940 · as Woman Customer
• Remember?1939 · as Lady in Revolving Door
• The Amazing Mr. Williams1939 · as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
• Meet Dr. Christian1939 · as Mrs. Minnows
• Too Busy to Work1939
• Drunk Driving1939 · as Driver (uncredited)
• Sabotage1939 · as (uncredited)
• Espionage Agent1939 · as Militant American Tourist
• Here I Am a Stranger1939 · as Chaperone at Dance
• Coast Guard1939 · as Florence (uncredited)
• Unmarried1939 · as Mrs. Jones
• Blondie Meets the Boss1939 · as Saleswoman (uncredited)
• Persons in Hiding1939 · as Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1939 · as Annie Rucker (uncredited)
• Boy Trouble1939 · as Mrs. Moots
• A Doggone Mixup1938
• The Shining Hour1938 · as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
• The Cowboy and the Lady1938 · as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
• A Man to Remember1938 · as Clerk (uncredited)
• Three Loves Has Nancy1938 · as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
• Woman Against Woman1938 · as Party Guest
• The Beloved Brat1938 · as School Board Member Miss Brundage
• Women Are Like That1938 · as Mrs. Snell
• Judge Hardy's Children1938 · as Miss Adams (uncredited)
• Merrily We Live1938 · as Mrs. Fleming
• Gold Is Where You Find It1938 · as Party Guest (uncredited)
• Love Is a Headache1938 · as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
• The Awful Truth1937 · as Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
• It's Love I'm After1937 · as Mrs. Hinkle
• Varsity Show1937 · as Mrs. Biddle
• Public Wedding1937 · as Mrs. Van Drexel
• Big Business1937 · as Miss Collins - School Principal
• We're on the Jury1937 · as Evelyn Bottomley
• The General Died at Dawn1936 · as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
• Theodora Goes Wild1936 · as Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
• Two-Fisted Gentleman1936 · as Mrs. O'Shea
• Palm Springs1936 · as Miss Pinchon
• Early to Bed1936 · as Miss Barton
• The Golden Arrow1936 · as Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
• Colleen1936 · as First Society Woman (uncredited)
• Stars Over Broadway1935 · as Woman Dancing with Fat Man
• It's in the Air1935 · as Old Maid (uncredited)
• I Live My Life1935 · as Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
• Two-Fisted1935 · as Abigail Adams
• People Will Talk1935 · as Martie Beemish
• Ruggles of Red Gap1935 · as Mrs. Myron Carey
• Shadow of Doubt1935 · as Dowager in Taxi
• Sweepstake Annie1935 · as Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
• The World Accuses1934 · as Lucille Weymouth
• My Grandfather's Clock1934 · as Housekeeper (uncredited)
• American Madness1932 · as Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
• Wayward1932 · as Nurse (uncredited)
• Glorifying the American Girl1929 · as Mrs. Hughes
• Two Americans1929