person

Sarah Edwards

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1881-10-09

Place of Birth

Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales

Sarah Edwards

Biography

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).

Also Known For

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It's a Wonderful Life

Dec 20, 1946

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65

Theodora Goes Wild

Nov 12, 1936

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81

The Shop Around the Corner

Jan 12, 1940

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47

Air Hostess

Aug 25, 1949

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61

The Cowboy and the Lady

Nov 17, 1938

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42

Three Loves Has Nancy

Sep 02, 1938

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45

Scattergood Survives a Murder

Oct 01, 1942

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58

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

Feb 14, 1944

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70

The Bishop's Wife

Dec 25, 1947

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60

Allotment Wives

Nov 08, 1945

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50

Miss Polly

Nov 14, 1941

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46

Young People

Aug 30, 1940

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30

California Firebrand

Apr 01, 1948

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57

Saratoga Trunk

Nov 21, 1945

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70

It's Love I'm After

Oct 08, 1937

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35

Persons in Hiding

Feb 10, 1939

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48

Storm Over Lisbon

Oct 16, 1944

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56

Glorifying the American Girl

Dec 07, 1929

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NA

Two-Fisted Gentleman

Aug 15, 1936

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65

Lady on a Train

Aug 03, 1945

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62

Shadow of Doubt

Feb 15, 1935

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70

Two-Fisted

Oct 03, 1935

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NA

A Doggone Mixup

Dec 05, 1938

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50

Boy Trouble

Jan 27, 1939

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65

Judge Hardy's Children

Mar 26, 1938

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57

Family Honeymoon

Dec 06, 1948

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70

Merrily We Live

Mar 04, 1938

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64

My Favorite Blonde

Apr 02, 1942

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NA

Palm Springs

Jun 05, 1936

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69

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Dec 04, 1941

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62

Good News

Dec 04, 1947

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NA

Two Americans

Jun 22, 1929

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61

Carson City

Jun 13, 1952

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58

Bathing Beauty

Jun 27, 1944

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60

The Fuller Brush Girl

Sep 15, 1950

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NA

Meet Dr. Christian

Nov 17, 1939

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65

A Man to Remember

Oct 14, 1938

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57

Love Is a Headache

Jan 14, 1938

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58

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Nov 22, 1939

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53

Colleen

Mar 21, 1936

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57

Public Wedding

Jul 09, 1937

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52

Stars Over Broadway

Nov 23, 1935

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NA

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

Apr 01, 1944

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NA

Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

Jun 10, 1944

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65

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Feb 10, 1939

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58

Blondie Meets the Boss

Mar 08, 1939

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50

Coast Guard

Aug 04, 1939

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58

Remember?

Dec 19, 1939

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NA

Dudes Are Pretty People

Mar 13, 1942

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59

Espionage Agent

Sep 30, 1939

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56

Lucky Cisco Kid

Jun 28, 1940

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NA

Opened by Mistake

May 10, 1940

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60

Girls of the Big House

Nov 02, 1945

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70

Here I Am a Stranger

Sep 29, 1939

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75

Shadow of a Doubt

Jan 15, 1943

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61

Varsity Show

Sep 04, 1937

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65

Woman Against Woman

Jun 24, 1938

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50

Dixie Dugan

Mar 12, 1943

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NA

Sunset in Wyoming

Jul 15, 1941

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60

The Golden Arrow

May 23, 1936

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57

The Invisible Woman

Dec 28, 1940

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72

The Awful Truth

Oct 21, 1937

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64

The Beloved Brat

Apr 30, 1938

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61

Two O'Clock Courage

Apr 13, 1945

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70

My Grandfather's Clock

Oct 27, 1934

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NA

All by Myself

Jun 11, 1943

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NA

The Forest Rangers

Oct 21, 1942

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60

Wayward

Feb 19, 1932

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62

Strike Up the Band

Sep 27, 1940

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65

The Howards of Virginia

Sep 19, 1940

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63

Arise, My Love

Nov 08, 1940

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68

New Moon

Jun 28, 1940

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50

It's in the Air

Oct 10, 1935

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55

Little Men

Nov 29, 1940

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50

Big Business

Jun 18, 1937

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NA

The Main Street Kid

Jan 01, 1948

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64

I Live My Life

Oct 04, 1935

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80

Free, Blonde and 21

Mar 28, 1940

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70

Sabotage

Oct 13, 1939

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53

Three Girls About Town

Oct 23, 1941

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42

Song of Arizona

Mar 08, 1946

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73

Curtain Call

Apr 18, 1940

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NA

Sons of the Pioneers

Jul 02, 1942

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64

Apache Trail

Sep 01, 1942

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70

Early to Bed

Jun 05, 1936

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58

We're on the Jury

Feb 12, 1937

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70

Ruggles of Red Gap

Mar 08, 1935

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54

Mr. District Attorney

Mar 27, 1941

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68

I Wake Up Screaming

Oct 31, 1941

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60

The World Accuses

Nov 11, 1934

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56

Tom, Dick and Harry

Jun 13, 1941

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NA

Too Busy to Work

Nov 17, 1939

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58

Undercurrent

Nov 11, 1946

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60

Calling All Pa's

Oct 24, 1942

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65

Rings on Her Fingers

Mar 20, 1942

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71

The Corn Is Green

Mar 29, 1945

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54

Drunk Driving

Oct 28, 1939

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57

Women Are Like That

Apr 23, 1938

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30

Unmarried

May 20, 1939

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37

Sweepstake Annie

Jan 29, 1935

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30

People Will Talk

May 24, 1935

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66

The Shining Hour

Nov 18, 1938

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69

Gold Is Where You Find It

Feb 12, 1938

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65

One Foot in Heaven

Nov 01, 1941

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70

American Madness

Aug 15, 1932

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50

Nearly Eighteen

Nov 12, 1943

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62

The General Died at Dawn

Nov 17, 1936

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65

The Face Behind the Mask

Jan 16, 1941