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