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