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).
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1881-10-09
Place of birth
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Images
Cast
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
8.28
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
6.50
The Shop Around the Corner
1940
8.14
Air Hostess
1949
4.70
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
6.10
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
4.20
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
4.50
The Bishop's Wife
1947
7.00
Allotment Wives
1945
6.00
Miss Polly
1941
5.00
Young People
1940
4.60
California Firebrand
1948
3.00
Saratoga Trunk
1945
5.70
It's Love I'm After
1937
7.00
Persons in Hiding
1939
3.50
Storm Over Lisbon
1944
4.80
Glorifying the American Girl
1929
5.60
Two-Fisted Gentleman
1936
0.00
Lady on a Train
1945
6.55
Shadow of Doubt
1935
6.20
Two-Fisted
1935
7.00
A Doggone Mixup
1938
0.00
Boy Trouble
1939
5.00
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
6.50
Family Honeymoon
1948
5.70
Merrily We Live
1938
7.08
My Favorite Blonde
1942
6.40
Palm Springs
1936
0.00
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
6.90
Good News
1947
6.20
Two Americans
1929
0.00
Carson City
1952
6.10
Bathing Beauty
1944
5.80
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
6.00
Meet Dr. Christian
1939
0.00
A Man to Remember
1938
6.50
Love Is a Headache
1938
5.70
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
5.80
Colleen
1936
5.30
Public Wedding
1937
5.70
Stars Over Broadway
1935
5.20
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944
0.00
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944
0.00
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
5.80
Coast Guard
1939
5.00
Remember?
1939
5.80
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
0.00
Espionage Agent
1939
5.90
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940
5.60
Opened by Mistake
1940
0.00
Girls of the Big House
1945
6.00
Here I Am a Stranger
1939
7.00
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
7.50
Varsity Show
1937
6.17
Woman Against Woman
1938
6.50
Dixie Dugan
1943
5.00
Sunset in Wyoming
1941
0.00
The Golden Arrow
1936
6.10
The Invisible Woman
1940
5.72
The Awful Truth
1937
7.20
The Beloved Brat
1938
6.40
Two O'Clock Courage
1945
6.10
My Grandfather's Clock
1934
7.00
All by Myself
1943
0.00
The Forest Rangers
1942
0.00
Wayward
1932
6.00
Strike Up the Band
1940
6.20
The Howards of Virginia
1940
6.50
Arise, My Love
1940
6.30
New Moon
1940
6.80
It's in the Air
1935
5.00
Little Men
1940
5.56
Big Business
1937
5.00
The Main Street Kid
1948
0.00
I Live My Life
1935
6.40
Free, Blonde and 21
1940
8.00
Sabotage
1939
7.00
Three Girls About Town
1941
5.30
Song of Arizona
1946
4.29
Curtain Call
1940
7.30
Sons of the Pioneers
1942
0.00
Apache Trail
1942
6.40
Early to Bed
1936
7.00
We're on the Jury
1937
5.80
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
7.10
Mr. District Attorney
1941
5.43
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
6.87
The World Accuses
1934
6.00
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941
5.62
Too Busy to Work
1939
0.00
Undercurrent
1946
5.80
Calling All Pa's
1942
6.00
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
6.50
The Corn Is Green
1945
7.10
Drunk Driving
1939
5.38
Women Are Like That
1938
5.70
Unmarried
1939
3.00
Sweepstake Annie
1935
3.70
People Will Talk
1935
3.00
The Shining Hour
1938
6.60
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
6.90
One Foot in Heaven
1941
6.58
American Madness
1932
7.00
Nearly Eighteen
1943
5.00
The General Died at Dawn
1936
6.20
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
6.50