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Sarah Edwards (October 11, 1881 β 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". 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).
Filmography
all 108
Movies 108
Carson City (1952)
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
Air Hostess (1949)
Family Honeymoon (1948)
California Firebrand (1948)
The Main Street Kid (1948)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Good News (1947)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Undercurrent (1946)
Song of Arizona (1946)
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Girls of the Big House (1945)
Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
The Corn Is Green (1945)
Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
Bathing Beauty (1944)
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (1944)
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid (1944)
Nearly Eighteen (1943)
All by Myself (1943)
Dixie Dugan (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Calling All Pa's (1942)
The Forest Rangers (1942)
Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)
Apache Trail (1942)
Sons of the Pioneers (1942)
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Dudes Are Pretty People (1942)
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
Miss Polly (1941)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Three Girls About Town (1941)
Sunset in Wyoming (1941)
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
Mr. District Attorney (1941)
The Invisible Woman (1940)
Little Men (1940)
Arise, My Love (1940)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Young People (1940)
New Moon (1940)
Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)
Opened by Mistake (1940)
Curtain Call (1940)
Free, Blonde and 21 (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Remember? (1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
Meet Dr. Christian (1939)
Sabotage (1939)
Espionage Agent (1939)
Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
Coast Guard (1939)
Unmarried (1939)
Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Persons in Hiding (1939)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Boy Trouble (1939)
The Shining Hour (1938)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
A Man to Remember (1938)
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
Woman Against Woman (1938)
The Beloved Brat (1938)
Women Are Like That (1938)
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Merrily We Live (1938)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Love Is a Headache (1938)
The Awful Truth (1937)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
Varsity Show (1937)
Public Wedding (1937)
Big Business (1937)
We're on the Jury (1937)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Two-Fisted Gentleman (1936)
Early to Bed (1936)
Palm Springs (1936)
The Golden Arrow (1936)
Colleen (1936)
Stars Over Broadway (1935)
It's in the Air (1935)
I Live My Life (1935)
Two-Fisted (1935)
People Will Talk (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Shadow of Doubt (1935)
Sweepstake Annie (1935)
The World Accuses (1934)
My Grandfather's Clock (1934)
American Madness (1932)
Wayward (1932)
Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
Two Americans (1929)
Humorous Flights (1929)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1881-10-09
Deathday1965-01-07 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceGlyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
CitizenshipsWales, United States of America
Also Known AsSara Edwards
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