
Sarah Edwards
Acting
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).

Carson City
Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)

The Fuller Brush Girl
Mrs. East (uncredited)

Air Hostess
Bertha Hallum

Family Honeymoon
Mrs. Carp (uncredited)

California Firebrand
Granny Hortense Mason

The Main Street Kid
Mrs. Clauson

The Bishop's Wife
Mrs. Duffy

Good News
Miss Pritchard (uncredited)

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)

It's a Wonderful Life
Mrs. Hatch

Undercurrent
Cora (uncredited)

Song of Arizona
Dolly Finnuccin

Saratoga Trunk
Miss Diggs (uncredited)

Allotment Wives
Sadie

Girls of the Big House
Dormitory Matron

Lady on a Train

Two O'Clock Courage
Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)

The Corn Is Green
Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)

Storm Over Lisbon
Maude Perry-Tonides

Bathing Beauty
Faculty Member (uncredited)

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Mrs. Bradley

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Mrs. Bradley

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Mrs. Hargue

Nearly Eighteen
Miss Perkins

All by Myself
Mrs. Vincent

Dixie Dugan
Mrs. Kelly

Shadow of a Doubt
Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)

Calling All Pa's
Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)

The Forest Rangers
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

Scattergood Survives a Murder
Selma Quentin

Apache Trail
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)

Sons of the Pioneers
Housekeeper

My Favorite Blonde
Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)

Rings on Her Fingers

Dudes Are Pretty People
Miss Priddle

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)

Mr. District Attorney
Miss Petherby

The Face Behind the Mask
Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)

The Invisible Woman
Showroom Buyer (uncredited)

Little Men
Landlady

Arise, My Love
Spinster (uncredited)

Strike Up the Band
Miss Hodges

The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl

Young People
Mrs. Stinchfield

New Moon
Marquise della Rosa

Lucky Cisco Kid
Spinster

Opened by Mistake
Mrs. Karff (uncredited)

Curtain Call
Literary Committee Member

Free, Blonde and 21
Undetermined Role

The Shop Around the Corner
Woman Customer

Remember?
Lady in Revolving Door

The Amazing Mr. Williams
Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)

Too Busy to Work

Meet Dr. Christian
Mrs. Minnows

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)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Annie Rucker (uncredited)

Persons in Hiding
Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

Boy Trouble
Mrs. Moots

A Doggone Mixup

The Shining Hour
Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)

The Cowboy and the Lady
Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)

A Man to Remember
Clerk (uncredited)

Three Loves Has Nancy
Autograph Session Chairwoman (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)

Merrily We Live
Mrs. Fleming

Gold Is Where You Find It
Party Guest (uncredited)

Love Is a Headache
Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)

The Awful Truth
Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)

It's Love I'm After
Mrs. Hinkle

Varsity Show
Mrs. Biddle

Public Wedding
Mrs. Van Drexel

Big Business
Miss Collins - School Principal

We're on the Jury
Evelyn Bottomley

The General Died at Dawn
Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)

Theodora Goes Wild
Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)

Two-Fisted Gentleman
Mrs. O'Shea

Early to Bed
Miss Barton

Palm Springs
Miss Pinchon

The Golden Arrow
Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers

Colleen
First Society Woman (uncredited)

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

Ruggles of Red Gap
Mrs. Myron Carey

Shadow of Doubt
Dowager in Taxi
Sweepstake Annie
Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)

The World Accuses
Lucille Weymouth
My Grandfather's Clock
Housekeeper (uncredited)

American Madness
Gossip on Phone (uncredited)

Wayward
Nurse (uncredited)

Glorifying the American Girl
Mrs. Hughes
Two Americans







