From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSarah 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 Capras film classic Its a Wonderful Life (1946) who tries to keep her daughter away from George Bailey. Edwards also played a customer in Ernst Lubitschs The Shop Around the Corner (1940) with James Stewart. She also appeared in another Christmas classic, The Bishops Wife (1947) with Cary Grant, and as the wife of a doctor on the train in Hitchcocks 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).

Filme indisponibile de la Sarah Edwards

Theodora Goes Wild

Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)

Film 1936

The Shop Around the Corner

Woman Customer

Film 1940

The Cowboy and the Lady

Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)

Film 1938

Three Loves Has Nancy

Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)

Film 1938

Scattergood Survives a Murder

Selma Quentin

Film 1942

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

Mrs. Hargue

Film 1944

The Bishop's Wife

Mrs. Duffy

Film 1947

Allotment Wives

Sadie

Film 1945

Miss Polly

Angie Turner

Film 1941

California Firebrand

Granny Hortense Mason

Film 1948

Saratoga Trunk

Miss Diggs (uncredited)

Film 1945

It's Love I'm After

Mrs. Hinkle

Film 1937

Persons in Hiding

Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

Film 1939

Storm Over Lisbon

Maude Perry-Tonides

Film 1944

Glorifying the American Girl

Mrs. Hughes

Film 1929

Two-Fisted Gentleman

Mrs. O'Shea

Film 1936

Lady on a Train

Film 1945

Shadow of Doubt

Dowager in Taxi

Film 1935

Two-Fisted

Abigail Adams

Film 1935

A Doggone Mixup

Film 1938

Judge Hardy's Children

Miss Adams (uncredited)

Film 1938

Family Honeymoon

Mrs. Carp (uncredited)

Film 1948

My Favorite Blonde

Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)

Film 1942

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)

Film 1941

Good News

Miss Pritchard (uncredited)

Film 1947

Two Americans

Film 1929

Carson City

Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)

Film 1952

Bathing Beauty

Faculty Member (uncredited)

Film 1944

The Fuller Brush Girl

Mrs. East (uncredited)

Film 1950

Meet Dr. Christian

Mrs. Minnows

Film 1939

A Man to Remember

Clerk (uncredited)

Film 1938

Love Is a Headache

Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)

Film 1938

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)

Film 1939

Colleen

First Society Woman (uncredited)

Film 1936

Public Wedding

Mrs. Van Drexel

Film 1937

Stars Over Broadway

Woman Dancing with Fat Man

Film 1935

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

Mrs. Bradley

Film 1944

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Annie Rucker (uncredited)

Film 1939

Blondie Meets the Boss

Saleswoman (uncredited)

Film 1939

Coast Guard

Florence (uncredited)

Film 1939

Dudes Are Pretty People

Miss Priddle

Film 1942

Espionage Agent

Militant American Tourist

Film 1939

Lucky Cisco Kid

Spinster

Film 1940

Opened by Mistake

Mrs. Karff (uncredited)

Film 1940

Girls of the Big House

Dormitory Matron

Film 1945

Here I Am a Stranger

Chaperone at Dance

Film 1939

Shadow of a Doubt

Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)

Film 1943

Varsity Show

Mrs. Biddle

Film 1937

Woman Against Woman

Party Guest

Film 1938

Dixie Dugan

Mrs. Kelly

Film 1943

Sunset in Wyoming

Susanna Hawkins Peabody

Film 1941

The Invisible Woman

Showroom Buyer (uncredited)

Film 1940

The Awful Truth

Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)

Film 1937

The Beloved Brat

School Board Member Miss Brundage

Film 1938

Two O'Clock Courage

Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)

Film 1945

My Grandfather's Clock

Housekeeper (uncredited)

Film 1934

All by Myself

Mrs. Vincent

Film 1943

The Forest Rangers

Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

Film 1942

Wayward

Nurse (uncredited)

Film 1932

Arise, My Love

Spinster (Uncredited)

Film 1940

New Moon

Marquise della Rosa

Film 1940

It's in the Air

Old Maid (uncredited)

Film 1935

Little Men

Landlady

Film 1940

Big Business

Miss Collins - School Principal

Film 1937

The Main Street Kid

Mrs. Clauson

Film 1948

I Live My Life

Professor Douglas (Uncredited)

Film 1935

Free, Blonde and 21

Undetermined Role

Film 1940

Sabotage

(uncredited)

Film 1939

Three Girls About Town

Clubwoman

Film 1941

Song of Arizona

Dolly Finnuccin

Film 1946

Sons of the Pioneers

Housekeeper

Film 1942

Apache Trail

Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)

Film 1942

Early to Bed

Miss Barton

Film 1936

We're on the Jury

Evelyn Bottomley

Film 1937

Mr. District Attorney

Miss Petherby

Film 1941

I Wake Up Screaming

Customer (uncredited)

Film 1941

The World Accuses

Lucille Weymouth

Film 1934

Tom, Dick and Harry

Mrs. Burton (uncredited)

Film 1941

Too Busy to Work

Film 1939

Undercurrent

Cora (uncredited)

Film 1946

Calling All Pa's

Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)

Film 1942

Rings on Her Fingers

Film 1942

The Corn Is Green

Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)

Film 1945

Drunk Driving

Driver (uncredited)

Film 1939

Women Are Like That

Mrs. Snell

Film 1938

Sweepstake Annie

Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)

Film 1935

People Will Talk

Martie Beemish

Film 1935

The Shining Hour

Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)

Film 1938

Gold Is Where You Find It

Party Guest (uncredited)

Film 1938

One Foot in Heaven

Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)

Film 1941

American Madness

Gossip on Phone (uncredited)

Film 1932

Nearly Eighteen

Miss Perkins

Film 1943

The General Died at Dawn

Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)

Film 1936