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).
Mrs. Moffat (uncredited)
Film 1936
Woman Customer
Film 1940
Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1938
Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
Film 1938
Selma Quentin
Film 1942
Mrs. Hargue
Film 1944
Mrs. Duffy
Film 1947
Sadie
Film 1945
Angie Turner
Film 1941
Granny Hortense Mason
Film 1948
Miss Diggs (uncredited)
Film 1945
Mrs. Hinkle
Film 1937
Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Film 1939
Maude Perry-Tonides
Film 1944
Mrs. Hughes
Film 1929
Mrs. O'Shea
Film 1936
Film 1945
Dowager in Taxi
Film 1935
Abigail Adams
Film 1935
Film 1938
Miss Adams (uncredited)
Film 1938
Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
Film 1948
Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
Film 1942
Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
Film 1941
Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
Film 1947
Film 1929
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Film 1952
Faculty Member (uncredited)
Film 1944
Mrs. East (uncredited)
Film 1950
Mrs. Minnows
Film 1939
Clerk (uncredited)
Film 1938
Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
Film 1938
Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
Film 1939
First Society Woman (uncredited)
Film 1936
Mrs. Van Drexel
Film 1937
Woman Dancing with Fat Man
Film 1935
Mrs. Bradley
Film 1944
Annie Rucker (uncredited)
Film 1939
Saleswoman (uncredited)
Film 1939
Florence (uncredited)
Film 1939
Miss Priddle
Film 1942
Militant American Tourist
Film 1939
Spinster
Film 1940
Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
Film 1940
Dormitory Matron
Film 1945
Chaperone at Dance
Film 1939
Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
Film 1943
Mrs. Biddle
Film 1937
Party Guest
Film 1938
Mrs. Kelly
Film 1943
Susanna Hawkins Peabody
Film 1941
Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
Film 1940
Lucy's Attorney's Wife (uncredited)
Film 1937
School Board Member Miss Brundage
Film 1938
Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
Film 1945
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Film 1934
Mrs. Vincent
Film 1943
Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
Film 1942
Nurse (uncredited)
Film 1932
Spinster (Uncredited)
Film 1940
Marquise della Rosa
Film 1940
Old Maid (uncredited)
Film 1935
Landlady
Film 1940
Miss Collins - School Principal
Film 1937
Mrs. Clauson
Film 1948
Professor Douglas (Uncredited)
Film 1935
Undetermined Role
Film 1940
(uncredited)
Film 1939
Clubwoman
Film 1941
Dolly Finnuccin
Film 1946
Housekeeper
Film 1942
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Film 1942
Miss Barton
Film 1936
Evelyn Bottomley
Film 1937
Miss Petherby
Film 1941
Customer (uncredited)
Film 1941
Lucille Weymouth
Film 1934
Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
Film 1941
Film 1939
Cora (uncredited)
Film 1946
Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
Film 1942
Film 1942
Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
Film 1945
Driver (uncredited)
Film 1939
Mrs. Snell
Film 1938
Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
Film 1935
Martie Beemish
Film 1935
Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
Film 1938
Party Guest (uncredited)
Film 1938
Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
Film 1941
Gossip on Phone (uncredited)
Film 1932
Miss Perkins
Film 1943
Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
Film 1936