Sarah Edwards

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

144

Movies

113

Born: October 11, 1881 – January 7, 1965
From: Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales

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).

Works

113 films

It's a Wonderful Life

19468.3

Shadow of a Doubt

19437.5

The Shop Around the Corner

19408.1

Bathing Beauty

19445.9

The Awful Truth

19377.2

The Bishop's Wife

19477.1

Undercurrent

19465.9

The Verdict

19466.5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

19396.7

Young People

19405.3

The Walking Dead

19366.3

Carson City

19526.2

The Fuller Brush Girl

19506.1

Arise, My Love

19406.3

I Wake Up Screaming

19416.9

Lady on a Train

19456.7

The Forest Rangers

19429.0

The Cowboy and the Lady

19386.3

Family Honeymoon

19486.3

The Invisible Woman

19405.7

Gold Is Where You Find It

19387.0

Mr. District Attorney

19415.8

Three Girls About Town

19416.5

One Foot in Heaven

19416.9

Two Americans

19297.0

The Face Behind the Mask

19416.5

Good News

19476.5

The Sons of the Pioneers

19429.0

American Madness

19326.9

The Howards of Virginia

19406.8

Saratoga Trunk

19456.1

The Amazing Mr. Williams

19396.0

New Moon

19406.9

It's in the Air

19356.3

Unmarried

19394.8

The General Died at Dawn

19366.5

Rings on Her Fingers

19426.8

Merrily We Live

19386.9

Coast Guard

19396.0

Blondie Meets the Boss

19395.8

Girls of the Big House

19457.5

Early to Bed

19368.0

It's Love I'm After

19377.1

Strike Up the Band

19406.6

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

19476.7

Dudes Are Pretty People

19428.0

Wayward

19326.3

Glorifying the American Girl

19295.6

Sweepstake Annie

19354.8

Three Loves Has Nancy

19384.2

Sabotage

19396.6

Song of Arizona

19464.6

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

19417.1

My Favorite Blonde

19426.4

Apache Trail

19426.9

The Shining Hour

19386.7

Persons in Hiding

19393.8

The Corn Is Green

19457.2

Sunset in Wyoming

19417.0

Miss Polly

19414.9

Little Men

19405.5

All by Myself

19438.0

Tom, Dick and Harry

19416.0

Lucky Cisco Kid

19406.0

Ruggles of Red Gap

19357.1

I Live My Life

19356.7

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

19446.1

Stars Over Broadway

19355.6

Judge Hardy's Children

19386.8

Curtain Call

19407.3

Opened by Mistake

19407.0

Palm Springs

19368.0

Woman Against Woman

19387.0

Remember?

19396.0

The Golden Arrow

19366.3

Theodora Goes Wild

19366.6

Colleen

19365.8

The Beloved Brat

19386.5

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

19447.0

Girl on the Spot

194610.0

Air Hostess

19495.8

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

194410.0

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

19476.6

Free, Blonde and 21

19407.3

Scattergood Survives a Murder

19425.9

Espionage Agent

19396.3

Too Busy to Work

193910.0

A Doggone Mixup

19387.0

Meet Dr. Christian

19397.0

Big Business

19377.5

Here I Am a Stranger

19397.3

The World Accuses

19346.5

Varsity Show

19376.8

Boy Trouble

19396.0

Public Wedding

19376.0

We're on the Jury

19376.2

Nearly Eighteen

19436.5

My Grandfather's Clock

19348.0

Dixie Dugan

19436.5

Storm Over Lisbon

19445.4

Love Is a Headache

19386.5

Drunk Driving

19395.8

Two O'Clock Courage

19456.3

Shadow of Doubt

19356.6

A Man to Remember

19386.7

California Firebrand

19485.5

Women Are Like That

19386.8

The Main Street Kid

194810.0

Allotment Wives

19456.7

People Will Talk

19354.3

Two-Fisted

19358.5

Two-Fisted Gentleman

19369.0

Calling All Pa's

19426.7