Sarah Edwards
Biography
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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).
Acting (105 movies)
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
The Shop Around the Corner
1940
Air Hostess
1949
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
1944
The Bishop's Wife
1947
Allotment Wives
1945
Miss Polly
1941
Young People
1940
California Firebrand
1948
Saratoga Trunk
1945
It's Love I'm After
1937
Persons in Hiding
1939
Storm Over Lisbon
1944
Glorifying the American Girl
1929
Two-Fisted Gentleman
1936
Lady on a Train
1945
Shadow of Doubt
1935
Two-Fisted
1935
A Doggone Mixup
1938
Boy Trouble
1939
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
Family Honeymoon
1948
Merrily We Live
1938
My Favorite Blonde
1942
Palm Springs
1936
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
Good News
1947
Carson City
1952
Bathing Beauty
1944
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
Meet Dr. Christian
1939
A Man to Remember
1938
Love Is a Headache
1938
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
Colleen
1936
Public Wedding
1937
Stars Over Broadway
1935
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
Coast Guard
1939
Remember?
1939
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
Espionage Agent
1939
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940
Opened by Mistake
1940
Girls of the Big House
1945
Here I Am a Stranger
1939
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
Varsity Show
1937
Woman Against Woman
1938
Dixie Dugan
1943
Sunset in Wyoming
1941
The Golden Arrow
1936
The Invisible Woman
1940
The Awful Truth
1937
The Beloved Brat
1938
Two O'Clock Courage
1945
All by Myself
1943
The Forest Rangers
1942
Wayward
1932
Strike Up the Band
1940
The Howards of Virginia
1940
Arise, My Love
1940
New Moon
1940
It's in the Air
1935
Little Men
1940
Big Business
1937
The Main Street Kid
1948
I Live My Life
1935
Free, Blonde and 21
1940
Sabotage
1939
Three Girls About Town
1941
Song of Arizona
1946
Curtain Call
1940
Sons of the Pioneers
1942
Apache Trail
1942
Early to Bed
1936
We're on the Jury
1937
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
Mr. District Attorney
1941
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
The World Accuses
1934
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941
Too Busy to Work
1939
Undercurrent
1946
Calling All Pa's
1942
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
The Corn Is Green
1945
Drunk Driving
1939
Women Are Like That
1938
Unmarried
1939
People Will Talk
1935
The Shining Hour
1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
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