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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 9, 1881
Died
January 7, 1965
Place of Birth
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Also Known As
- Sara Edwards
Sarah Edwards
0.9 Popularity
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
6.1
Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
Carson City
1952
6.0
Mrs. East (uncredited)
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
4.8
Bertha Hallum
Air Hostess
1949
5.7
Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
Family Honeymoon
1948
3.0
Granny Hortense Mason
California Firebrand
1948
0.0
Mrs. Clauson
The Main Street Kid
1948
7.1
Mrs. Duffy
The Bishop's Wife
1947
6.2
Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
Good News
1947
8.3
Mrs. Hatch
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
5.9
Cora (uncredited)
Undercurrent
1946
Credits
Carson City
as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
1952
6.1
The Fuller Brush Girl
as Mrs. East (uncredited)
1950
6.0
Air Hostess
as Bertha Hallum
1949
4.8
Family Honeymoon
as Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
1948
5.7
California Firebrand
as Granny Hortense Mason
1948
3.0
The Main Street Kid
as Mrs. Clauson
1948
0.0
The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Duffy
1947
7.1
Good News
as Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
1947
6.2
It's a Wonderful Life
as Mrs. Hatch
1946
8.3
Undercurrent
as Cora (uncredited)
1946
5.9
Song of Arizona
as Dolly Finnuccin
1946
4.3
Saratoga Trunk
as Miss Diggs (uncredited)
1945
5.7
Allotment Wives
as Sadie
1945
6.0
Girls of the Big House
as Dormitory Matron
1945
6.0
Lady on a Train
1945
6.6
Two O'Clock Courage
as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
1945
6.1
The Corn Is Green
as Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
1945
7.2
Storm Over Lisbon
as Maude Perry-Tonides
1944
4.8
Bathing Beauty
as Faculty Member (uncredited)
1944
5.7
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
as Mrs. Bradley
1944
0.0
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
as Mrs. Bradley
1944
0.0
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
as Mrs. Hargue
1944
5.9
Nearly Eighteen
as Miss Perkins
1943
5.0
All by Myself
as Mrs. Vincent
1943
0.0
Dixie Dugan
as Mrs. Kelly
1943
5.0
Shadow of a Doubt
as Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
1943
7.5
Calling All Pa's
as Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
1942
6.0
The Forest Rangers
as Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
1942
0.0
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Selma Quentin
1942
4.5
Apache Trail
as Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
1942
6.4
Sons of the Pioneers
as Housekeeper
1942
0.0
My Favorite Blonde
as Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
1942
6.4
Rings on Her Fingers
1942
6.5
Dudes Are Pretty People
as Miss Priddle
1942
0.0
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
1941
7.1
Miss Polly
as Angie Turner
1941
4.5
One Foot in Heaven
as Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
1941
6.6
I Wake Up Screaming
as Customer (uncredited)
1941
6.9
Three Girls About Town
as Clubwoman
1941
5.3
Sunset in Wyoming
as Susanna Hawkins Peabody
1941
0.0
Tom, Dick and Harry
as Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
1941
5.7
Mr. District Attorney
as Miss Petherby
1941
5.4
The Face Behind the Mask
as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
1941
6.5
The Invisible Woman
as Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
1940
5.7
Little Men
as Landlady
1940
5.6
Arise, My Love
as Spinster (Uncredited)
1940
6.3
Strike Up the Band
as Miss Hodges
1940
6.4
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
1940
6.5
Young People
as Mrs. Stinchfield
1940
4.6
New Moon
as Marquise della Rosa
1940
6.5
Lucky Cisco Kid
as Spinster
1940
5.6
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
1940
0.0
Curtain Call
as Literary Committee Member
1940
7.3
Free, Blonde and 21
as Undetermined Role
1940
8.0
The Shop Around the Corner
as Woman Customer
1940
8.1
Remember?
as Lady in Revolving Door
1939
5.8
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
1939
5.8
Meet Dr. Christian
as Mrs. Minnows
1939
0.0
Too Busy to Work
1939
0.0
Drunk Driving
as Driver (uncredited)
1939
5.4
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
1939
7.0
Espionage Agent
as Militant American Tourist
1939
5.9
Here I Am a Stranger
as Chaperone at Dance
1939
7.0
Coast Guard
as Florence (uncredited)
1939
5.0
Unmarried
as Mrs. Jones
1939
3.0
Blondie Meets the Boss
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
1939
5.8
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Annie Rucker (uncredited)
1939
6.6
Persons in Hiding
as Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
1939
2.7
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Moots
1939
5.0
A Doggone Mixup
1938
0.0
The Shining Hour
as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
1938
6.6
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
1938
6.3
A Man to Remember
as Clerk (uncredited)
1938
6.5
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
1938
3.8
Woman Against Woman
as Party Guest
1938
6.5
The Beloved Brat
as School Board Member Miss Brundage
1938
6.4
Women Are Like That
as Mrs. Snell
1938
5.7
Judge Hardy's Children
as Miss Adams (uncredited)
1938
6.5
Merrily We Live
as Mrs. Fleming
1938
6.9
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1938
6.9
Love Is a Headache
as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
1938
5.7
The Awful Truth
as Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
1937
7.2
It's Love I'm After
as Mrs. Hinkle
1937
7.0
Varsity Show
as Mrs. Biddle
1937
6.3
Public Wedding
as Mrs. Van Drexel
1937
5.7
Big Business
as Miss Collins - School Principal
1937
5.0
We're on the Jury
as Evelyn Bottomley
1937
5.8
The General Died at Dawn
as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
1936
6.3
Theodora Goes Wild
as Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
1936
6.5
Two-Fisted Gentleman
as Mrs. O'Shea
1936
0.0
Palm Springs
as Miss Pinchon
1936
0.0
Early to Bed
as Miss Barton
1936
7.0
The Golden Arrow
as Mrs. Lizzie Burke-Meyers
1936
6.1
Colleen
as First Society Woman (uncredited)
1936
5.3
Stars Over Broadway
as Woman Dancing with Fat Man
1935
5.2
It's in the Air
as Old Maid (uncredited)
1935
5.0
I Live My Life
as Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
1935
6.4
Two-Fisted
as Abigail Adams
1935
7.0
People Will Talk
as Martie Beemish
1935
3.0
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Mrs. Myron Carey
1935
7.1
Shadow of Doubt
as Dowager in Taxi
1935
6.2
🎬
Sweepstake Annie
as Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
1935
4.0
The World Accuses
as Lucille Weymouth
1934
6.0
🎬
My Grandfather's Clock
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934
7.0
American Madness
as Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
1932
6.8
Wayward
as Nurse (uncredited)
1932
6.0
Glorifying the American Girl
as Mrs. Hughes
1929
5.3
🎬
Two Americans
1929
0.0