Sarah Edwards
1881-10-09 ( 143 years old ) in Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales

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).

Movies

Carson City 1952-06-13
The Fuller Brush Girl 1950-09-15
Air Hostess 1949-08-25
Family Honeymoon 1948-12-06
California Firebrand 1948-04-01
The Main Street Kid 1948-01-01
The Bishop's Wife 1947-12-25
Good News 1947-12-04
It's a Wonderful Life 1946-12-20
Undercurrent 1946-11-11
Song of Arizona 1946-03-08
Saratoga Trunk 1945-11-21
Allotment Wives 1945-11-08
Girls of the Big House 1945-11-02
Lady on a Train 1945-08-03
Two O'Clock Courage 1945-04-13
The Corn Is Green 1945-03-29
Storm Over Lisbon 1944-10-16
Bathing Beauty 1944-06-27
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret 1944-06-10
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid 1944-04-01
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service 1944-02-14
Nearly Eighteen 1943-11-12
All by Myself 1943-06-11
Dixie Dugan 1943-03-12
Shadow of a Doubt 1943-01-15
Calling All Pa's 1942-10-24
The Forest Rangers 1942-10-21
Scattergood Survives a Murder 1942-10-01
Apache Trail 1942-09-01
Sons of the Pioneers 1942-07-02
My Favorite Blonde 1942-04-02
Rings on Her Fingers 1942-03-20
Dudes Are Pretty People 1942-03-13
H.M. Pulham, Esq. 1941-12-04
Miss Polly 1941-11-14
One Foot in Heaven 1941-11-01
I Wake Up Screaming 1941-10-31
Three Girls About Town 1941-10-23
Sunset in Wyoming 1941-07-15
Tom, Dick and Harry 1941-06-13
Mr. District Attorney 1941-03-27
The Face Behind the Mask 1941-01-16
The Invisible Woman 1940-12-28
Little Men 1940-11-29
Arise, My Love 1940-11-08
Strike Up the Band 1940-09-27
The Howards of Virginia 1940-09-19
Young People 1940-08-30
Lucky Cisco Kid 1940-06-28
New Moon 1940-06-28
Opened by Mistake 1940-05-10
Curtain Call 1940-04-18
Free, Blonde and 21 1940-03-28
The Shop Around the Corner 1940-01-12
Remember? 1939-12-19
The Amazing Mr. Williams 1939-11-22
Meet Dr. Christian 1939-11-17
Too Busy to Work 1939-11-17
Drunk Driving 1939-10-28
Sabotage 1939-10-13
Espionage Agent 1939-09-30
Here I Am a Stranger 1939-09-29
Coast Guard 1939-08-04
Unmarried 1939-05-20
Blondie Meets the Boss 1939-03-08
Persons in Hiding 1939-02-10
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1939-02-10
Boy Trouble 1939-01-27
A Doggone Mixup 1938-12-05
The Shining Hour 1938-11-18
The Cowboy and the Lady 1938-11-17
A Man to Remember 1938-10-14
Three Loves Has Nancy 1938-09-02
Woman Against Woman 1938-06-24
The Beloved Brat 1938-04-30
Women Are Like That 1938-04-23
Judge Hardy's Children 1938-03-26
Merrily We Live 1938-03-04
Gold Is Where You Find It 1938-02-12
Love Is a Headache 1938-01-14
The Awful Truth 1937-10-21
It's Love I'm After 1937-10-08
Varsity Show 1937-09-04
Public Wedding 1937-07-09
Big Business 1937-06-18
We're on the Jury 1937-02-12
The General Died at Dawn 1936-11-17
Theodora Goes Wild 1936-11-12
Two-Fisted Gentleman 1936-08-15
Palm Springs 1936-06-05
Early to Bed 1936-06-05
The Golden Arrow 1936-05-23
Colleen 1936-03-21
Stars Over Broadway 1935-11-23
It's in the Air 1935-10-10
I Live My Life 1935-10-04
Two-Fisted 1935-10-03
People Will Talk 1935-05-24
Ruggles of Red Gap 1935-03-08
Shadow of Doubt 1935-02-15
Sweepstake Annie 1935-01-29
The World Accuses 1934-11-11
My Grandfather's Clock 1934-10-27
American Madness 1932-08-15
Wayward 1932-02-19
Glorifying the American Girl 1929-12-07
Two Americans 1929-06-22

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