Sarah Edwards
Acting
- Born:
- 1881-10-11
- Died:
- 1965-01-07
- Place of birth:
- 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).
Known For
Filmography
Carson City
The Fuller Brush Girl
Air Hostess
Family Honeymoon
California Firebrand
The Main Street Kid
The Bishop's Wife
Good News
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
It's a Wonderful Life
Undercurrent
The Verdict
Song of Arizona
Girl on the Spot
Saratoga Trunk
Allotment Wives
Girls of the Big House
Lady on a Train
Two O'Clock Courage
The Corn Is Green
Storm Over Lisbon
Bathing Beauty
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Nearly Eighteen
All by Myself
Dixie Dugan
Shadow of a Doubt
Calling All Pa's
The Forest Rangers
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Apache Trail
The Sons of the Pioneers
My Favorite Blonde
Rings on Her Fingers
Dudes Are Pretty People
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Miss Polly
One Foot in Heaven
I Wake Up Screaming
Three Girls About Town
Sunset in Wyoming
Tom, Dick and Harry
Mr. District Attorney
The Face Behind the Mask
The Invisible Woman
Little Men
Arise, My Love
Strike Up the Band
The Howards of Virginia
Young People
Lucky Cisco Kid
New Moon
Opened by Mistake
Curtain Call
Free, Blonde and 21
The Shop Around the Corner
Remember?
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Meet Dr. Christian
Too Busy to Work
Drunk Driving
Sabotage
Espionage Agent
Here I Am a Stranger
Coast Guard
Unmarried
Blondie Meets the Boss
Persons in Hiding
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Boy Trouble
A Doggone Mixup
The Shining Hour
The Cowboy and the Lady
A Man to Remember
Three Loves Has Nancy
Woman Against Woman
The Beloved Brat
Women Are Like That
Judge Hardy's Children
Merrily We Live
Gold Is Where You Find It
Love Is a Headache
The Awful Truth
It's Love I'm After
Varsity Show
Public Wedding
Big Business
We're on the Jury
The General Died at Dawn
Theodora Goes Wild
Two-Fisted Gentleman
Palm Springs
Early to Bed
The Golden Arrow
Colleen
The Walking Dead
Stars Over Broadway
It's in the Air
I Live My Life
Two-Fisted
People Will Talk
Ruggles of Red Gap
Shadow of Doubt
Sweepstake Annie
The World Accuses
My Grandfather's Clock
American Madness
Wayward
Glorifying the American Girl
Two Americans