Sarah Edwards
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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).
As Actor/Actress
¡Qué Bello es Vivir!
Mrs. Hatch
El bazar de las sorpresas
Woman Customer
La sombra de una duda
Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
Undercurrent
Cora (uncredited)
The Invisible Woman
Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
Un enviado del cielo
Mrs. Duffy
Public Wedding
Mrs. Van Drexel
La pícara puritana
Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
Bathing Beauty
Faculty Member (uncredited)
Gente joven
Mrs. Stinchfield
Early to Bed
Miss Barton
Boy Trouble
Mrs. Moots
Three Loves Has Nancy
Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
The Fuller Brush Girl
Mrs. East (uncredited)
Two O'Clock Courage
Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
Carson City
Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
American Madness
Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
Coast Guard
Florence (uncredited)
The General Died at Dawn
Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
El vaquero y la dama
Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
Theodora Goes Wild
Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
I Wake Up Screaming
Customer (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Annie Rucker (uncredited)
It's Love I'm After
Mrs. Hinkle
The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
Strike Up the Band
Miss Hodges
Three Girls About Town
Clubwoman
Merrily We Live
Mrs. Fleming
Espionage Agent
Militant American Tourist
Arise, My Love
Spinster (uncredited)