Sarah Edwards

Sarah Edwards

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).
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1881-10-09
Place of Birth: Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
Also Known As: Sara Edwards

Movies List of Sarah Edwards

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It's a Wonderful Life

1946 Movie
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Theodora Goes Wild

1936 Movie
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Air Hostess

1949 Movie
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Three Loves Has Nancy

1938 Movie
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The Bishop's Wife

1947 Movie
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Allotment Wives

1945 Movie
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Miss Polly

1941 Movie
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Young People

1940 Movie
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California Firebrand

1948 Movie
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Saratoga Trunk

1945 Movie
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It's Love I'm After

1937 Movie
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Persons in Hiding

1939 Movie
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Storm Over Lisbon

1944 Movie
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Two-Fisted Gentleman

1936 Movie
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Lady on a Train

1945 Movie
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Shadow of Doubt

1935 Movie
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Two-Fisted

1935 Movie
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A Doggone Mixup

1938 Movie
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Boy Trouble

1939 Movie
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Family Honeymoon

1948 Movie
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Merrily We Live

1938 Movie
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My Favorite Blonde

1942 Movie
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Palm Springs

1936 Movie
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941 Movie
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Good News

1947 Movie
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Two Americans

1929 Movie
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Carson City

1952 Movie
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Bathing Beauty

1944 Movie
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The Fuller Brush Girl

1950 Movie
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Meet Dr. Christian

1939 Movie
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A Man to Remember

1938 Movie
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Love Is a Headache

1938 Movie
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Colleen

1936 Movie
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Public Wedding

1937 Movie
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Stars Over Broadway

1935 Movie
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Coast Guard

1939 Movie
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Remember?

1939 Movie
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Espionage Agent

1939 Movie
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Lucky Cisco Kid

1940 Movie
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Opened by Mistake

1940 Movie
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Here I Am a Stranger

1939 Movie
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Shadow of a Doubt

1943 Movie
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Varsity Show

1937 Movie
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Woman Against Woman

1938 Movie
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Dixie Dugan

1943 Movie
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Sunset in Wyoming

1941 Movie
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The Golden Arrow

1936 Movie
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The Invisible Woman

1940 Movie
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The Awful Truth

1937 Movie
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The Beloved Brat

1938 Movie
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Two O'Clock Courage

1945 Movie
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All by Myself

1943 Movie
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The Forest Rangers

1942 Movie
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Wayward

1932 Movie
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Strike Up the Band

1940 Movie
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Arise, My Love

1940 Movie
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New Moon

1940 Movie
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It's in the Air

1935 Movie
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Little Men

1940 Movie
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Big Business

1937 Movie
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The Main Street Kid

1948 Movie
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I Live My Life

1935 Movie
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Free, Blonde and 21

1940 Movie
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Sabotage

1939 Movie
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Song of Arizona

1946 Movie
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Curtain Call

1940 Movie
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Sons of the Pioneers

1942 Movie
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Apache Trail

1942 Movie
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Early to Bed

1936 Movie
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We're on the Jury

1937 Movie
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Ruggles of Red Gap

1935 Movie
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Mr. District Attorney

1941 Movie
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I Wake Up Screaming

1941 Movie
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The World Accuses

1934 Movie
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Tom, Dick and Harry

1941 Movie
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Too Busy to Work

1939 Movie
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Undercurrent

1946 Movie
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Calling All Pa's

1942 Movie
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Rings on Her Fingers

1942 Movie
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The Corn Is Green

1945 Movie
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Drunk Driving

1939 Movie
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Women Are Like That

1938 Movie
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Unmarried

1939 Movie
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Sweepstake Annie

1935 Movie
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People Will Talk

1935 Movie
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The Shining Hour

1938 Movie
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One Foot in Heaven

1941 Movie
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American Madness

1932 Movie
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Nearly Eighteen

1943 Movie