Sarah Edwards

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

108

Gender

Female

Birthday

1881-10-09

Day of death

1965-01-07 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales

Sarah Edwards

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

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

  • New Moon

    New Moon

  • Good News

    Good News

  • Arise, My Love

    Arise, My Love

  • H.M. Pulham, Esq.

    H.M. Pulham, Esq.

  • The Howards of Virginia

    The Howards of Virginia

  • Allotment Wives

    Allotment Wives

  • Scattergood Survives a Murder

    Scattergood Survives a Murder

  • Early to Bed

    Early to Bed

  • My Grandfather's Clock

    My Grandfather's Clock

  • Public Wedding

    Public Wedding

  • Strike Up the Band

    Strike Up the Band

  • The Awful Truth

    The Awful Truth

  • Persons in Hiding

    Persons in Hiding

  • The Cowboy and the Lady

    The Cowboy and the Lady

  • One Foot in Heaven

    One Foot in Heaven

  • Boy Trouble

    Boy Trouble

  • Too Busy to Work

    Too Busy to Work

  • Palm Springs

    Palm Springs

  • The Golden Arrow

    The Golden Arrow

  • A Man to Remember

    A Man to Remember

  • The Forest Rangers

    The Forest Rangers

  • The Amazing Mr. Williams

    The Amazing Mr. Williams

  • Colleen

    Colleen

  • People Will Talk

    People Will Talk

  • I Wake Up Screaming

    I Wake Up Screaming

  • Remember?

    Remember?

  • American Madness

    American Madness

  • Love Is a Headache

    Love Is a Headache

  • The Main Street Kid

    The Main Street Kid

  • Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

  • Little Men

    Little Men

  • Sabotage

    Sabotage

  • The Bishop's Wife

    The Bishop's Wife

  • It's in the Air

    It's in the Air

  • Espionage Agent

    Espionage Agent

  • Sons of the Pioneers

    Sons of the Pioneers

  • Lady on a Train

    Lady on a Train

  • Coast Guard

    Coast Guard

  • Girls of the Big House

    Girls of the Big House

  • Here I Am a Stranger

    Here I Am a Stranger

  • Family Honeymoon

    Family Honeymoon

  • Big Business

    Big Business

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt

  • Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl

  • Storm Over Lisbon

    Storm Over Lisbon

  • Varsity Show

    Varsity Show

  • The Beloved Brat

    The Beloved Brat

  • Shadow of Doubt

    Shadow of Doubt

  • Drunk Driving

    Drunk Driving

  • Merrily We Live

    Merrily We Live

  • Song of Arizona

    Song of Arizona

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Carson City

    Carson City

  • Sweepstake Annie

    Sweepstake Annie

  • Nearly Eighteen

    Nearly Eighteen

  • Ruggles of Red Gap

    Ruggles of Red Gap

  • Two-Fisted

    Two-Fisted

  • The World Accuses

    The World Accuses

  • Sunset in Wyoming

    Sunset in Wyoming

  • Theodora Goes Wild

    Theodora Goes Wild

  • The Shop Around the Corner

    The Shop Around the Corner

  • California Firebrand

    California Firebrand

  • The Face Behind the Mask

    The Face Behind the Mask

  • Bathing Beauty

    Bathing Beauty

  • Woman Against Woman

    Woman Against Woman

  • Wayward

    Wayward

  • Meet Dr. Christian

    Meet Dr. Christian

  • Undercurrent

    Undercurrent

  • Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

    Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

  • The Invisible Woman

    The Invisible Woman

  • My Favorite Blonde

    My Favorite Blonde

  • Mr. District Attorney

    Mr. District Attorney

  • Lucky Cisco Kid

    Lucky Cisco Kid

  • We're on the Jury

    We're on the Jury

  • Calling All Pa's

    Calling All Pa's

  • All by Myself

    All by Myself

  • Saratoga Trunk

    Saratoga Trunk

  • Young People

    Young People

  • Unmarried

    Unmarried

  • Stars Over Broadway

    Stars Over Broadway

  • Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

    Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

  • The Fuller Brush Girl

    The Fuller Brush Girl

  • Three Girls About Town

    Three Girls About Town

  • Gold Is Where You Find It

    Gold Is Where You Find It

  • Three Loves Has Nancy

    Three Loves Has Nancy

  • Miss Polly

    Miss Polly

  • Blondie Meets the Boss

    Blondie Meets the Boss

  • The General Died at Dawn

    The General Died at Dawn

  • The Shining Hour

    The Shining Hour

  • Two-Fisted Gentleman

    Two-Fisted Gentleman

  • Two Americans

    Two Americans

  • Rings on Her Fingers

    Rings on Her Fingers

  • It's Love I'm After

    It's Love I'm After

  • Air Hostess

    Air Hostess

  • The Corn Is Green

    The Corn Is Green

  • Women Are Like That

    Women Are Like That

  • I Live My Life

    I Live My Life

  • Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

    Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

  • Tom, Dick and Harry

    Tom, Dick and Harry

  • Free, Blonde and 21

    Free, Blonde and 21

  • Apache Trail

    Apache Trail

  • Opened by Mistake

    Opened by Mistake

  • Judge Hardy's Children

    Judge Hardy's Children

  • Dudes Are Pretty People

    Dudes Are Pretty People

  • Dixie Dugan

    Dixie Dugan

  • A Doggone Mixup

    A Doggone Mixup

  • Two O'Clock Courage

    Two O'Clock Courage