Sarah Edwards
Acting
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).
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
as Mrs. Hargue
Age 62 (now 83)
The Face Behind the Mask
as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
Age 59 (now 83)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
Age 65 (now 83)
Two O'Clock Courage
as Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
Age 63 (now 83)
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
as Mrs. Bradley
Age 62 (now 83)
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
as Mrs. Hargue
Age 62 (now 83)
Scattergood Survives a Murder
as Selma Quentin
Age 60 (now 83)
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
Age 60 (now 83)
The Face Behind the Mask
as Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
Age 59 (now 83)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
Age 58 (now 83)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Annie Rucker (uncredited)
Age 57 (now 83)
The Shining Hour
as Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
Age 57 (now 83)
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
Age 57 (now 83)
Three Loves Has Nancy
as Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
Age 56 (now 83)
Gold Is Where You Find It
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Age 56 (now 83)
Love Is a Headache
as Mrs. Warden, Fan from New Jersey (uncredited)
Age 56 (now 83)
The General Died at Dawn
as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
Age 55 (now 83)
My Grandfather's Clock
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
Age 53 (now 83)
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Sara Edwards
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