Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 11, 1881
Died
Jan 07, 1965
Place of Birth
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Credits
112 titles
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
Filmography
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)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
It's a Wonderful Life
Mrs. Hatch
Undercurrent
Cora (uncredited)
Song of Arizona
Dolly Finnuccin
Girl on the Spot
Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
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)
The 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