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