Sarah Edwards
Acting
🎂 1881-10-09
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(108)
Mrs. Hatch
1946
Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
1947
Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
1943
Woman Customer
1940
Mrs. Duffy
1947
Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
1937
Customer (uncredited)
1941
Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
1940
Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
1938
Faculty Member (uncredited)
1944
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
1952
Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
1936
Landlady
1940
Annie Rucker (uncredited)
1939
Miss Petherby
1941
Mrs. Myron Carey
1935
Clubwoman
1941
Cora (uncredited)
1946
Party Guest (uncredited)
1938
1945
Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
1932
Miss Diggs (uncredited)
1945
Marquise della Rosa
1940
Mrs. Stinchfield
1940
Spinster (Uncredited)
1940
Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
1938
Mrs. Moots
1939
Lady in Revolving Door
1939
Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
1936
1942
Sadie
1945
Old Maid (uncredited)
1935
Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
1935
Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
1941
Bertha Hallum
1949
Abigail Adams
1935
Mrs. Hargue
1944
Mrs. East (uncredited)
1950
Mrs. Hughes
1929
Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
1941
Mrs. Fleming
1938
Militant American Tourist
1939
(uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
1941
Saleswoman (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
1942
First Society Woman (uncredited)
1936
Mrs. Hinkle
1937
Miss Hodges
1940
Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Biddle
1937
Lucille Weymouth
1934
Mrs. Kelly
1943
Literary Committee Member
1940
Florence (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
1941
Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
1945
Neighbor Girl
1940
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
1942
Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
1938
Dormitory Matron
1945
Martie Beemish
1935
Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934
Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Van Drexel
1937
Evelyn Bottomley
1937
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
1942
Angie Turner
1941
Miss Priddle
1942
Mrs. Jones
1939
School Board Member Miss Brundage
1938
Mrs. Snell
1938
Mrs. Clauson
1948
Party Guest
1938
Miss Pinchon
1936
Miss Collins - School Principal
1937
Nurse (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Bradley
1944
Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
1936
Dolly Finnuccin
1946
Undetermined Role
1940
Chaperone at Dance
1939
Clerk (uncredited)
1938
1938
Driver (uncredited)
1939
Spinster
1940
Mrs. Minnows
1939
Granny Hortense Mason
1948
Maude Perry-Tonides
1944
Mrs. Vincent
1943
1939
Housekeeper
1942
Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
1945
Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
1938
Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
1935
Woman Dancing with Fat Man
1935
Miss Barton
1936
Selma Quentin
1942
Susanna Hawkins Peabody
1941
Miss Adams (uncredited)
1938
Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
1948
Miss Perkins
1943
Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
1940
Dowager in Taxi
1935
Mrs. O'Shea
1936
1929
Mrs. Bradley
1944
Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
1942