Sarah Edwards
female
Born on October 11, 1881 (144 years old)
Passed Away on January 07, 1965
From Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Known for Acting
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).
Cast Credits
- 1952
- 1950
- 1949
- 1948
- 1947
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
- 1943
- 1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as
Selma Quentin
1942
My Favorite Blonde
as
Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
as
Miss Priddle
1942
The Forest Rangers
as
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
1942
Sons of the Pioneers
as
Housekeeper
1942
Apache Trail
as
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
1942
Calling All Pa's
as
Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
1942
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
- 1941
Miss Polly
as
Angie Turner
1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as
Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
1941
Sunset in Wyoming
as
Susanna Hawkins Peabody
1941
Three Girls About Town
as
Clubwoman
1941
Mr. District Attorney
as
Miss Petherby
1941
I Wake Up Screaming
as
Customer (uncredited)
1941
Tom, Dick and Harry
as
Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
1941
One Foot in Heaven
as
Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
1941
The Face Behind the Mask
as
Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
1941
- 1940
The Shop Around the Corner
as
Woman Customer
1940
Young People
as
Mrs. Stinchfield
1940
Lucky Cisco Kid
as
Spinster
1940
Opened by Mistake
as
Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
1940
The Invisible Woman
as
Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
1940
Strike Up the Band
as
Miss Hodges
1940
The Howards of Virginia
as
Neighbor Girl
1940
Arise, My Love
as
Spinster (Uncredited)
1940
New Moon
as
Marquise della Rosa
1940
Little Men
as
Landlady
1940
Free, Blonde and 21
as
Undetermined Role
1940
Curtain Call
as
Literary Committee Member
1940
- 1939
Persons in Hiding
as
Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
1939
Boy Trouble
as
Mrs. Moots
1939
Meet Dr. Christian
as
Mrs. Minnows
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as
Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as
Annie Rucker (uncredited)
1939
Blondie Meets the Boss
as
Saleswoman (uncredited)
1939
Coast Guard
as
Florence (uncredited)
1939
Remember?
as
Lady in Revolving Door
1939
Espionage Agent
as
Militant American Tourist
1939
Here I Am a Stranger
as
Chaperone at Dance
1939
Sabotage
as
(uncredited)
1939
Too Busy to Work
1939
Drunk Driving
as
Driver (uncredited)
1939
Unmarried
as
Mrs. Jones
1939
- 1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
as
Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
as
Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
1938
A Doggone Mixup
1938
Judge Hardy's Children
as
Miss Adams (uncredited)
1938
Merrily We Live
as
Mrs. Fleming
1938
A Man to Remember
as
Clerk (uncredited)
1938
Love Is a Headache
as
Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
1938
Woman Against Woman
as
Party Guest
1938
The Beloved Brat
as
School Board Member Miss Brundage
1938
Women Are Like That
as
Mrs. Snell
1938
The Shining Hour
as
Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
as
Party Guest (uncredited)
1938
- 1937
- 1936
Theodora Goes Wild
as
Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
1936
Two-Fisted Gentleman
as
Mrs. O'Shea
1936
Palm Springs
as
Miss Pinchon
1936
Colleen
as
First Society Woman (uncredited)
1936
The Golden Arrow
as
Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
1936
Early to Bed
as
Miss Barton
1936
The General Died at Dawn
as
Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
1936
- 1935
Shadow of Doubt
as
Dowager in Taxi
1935
Two-Fisted
as
Abigail Adams
1935
Stars Over Broadway
as
Woman Dancing with Fat Man
1935
It's in the Air
as
Old Maid (uncredited)
1935
I Live My Life
as
Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
1935
Ruggles of Red Gap
as
Mrs. Myron Carey
1935
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Sweepstake Annie
as
Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
1935
People Will Talk
as
Martie Beemish
1935
- 1934
- 1932
- 1929
