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).
112 movies
Carson City
1952·6.2
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950·6.1
Air Hostess
1949·5.8
Family Honeymoon
1948·6.3
California Firebrand
1948·5.5
The Main Street Kid
1948·10.0
The Bishop's Wife
1947·7.1
Good News
1947·6.5
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947·6.7
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1947·6.6
It's a Wonderful Life
1946·8.3
Undercurrent
1946·5.9
Song of Arizona
1946·4.6
Girl on the Spot
1946·10.0
Saratoga Trunk
1945·6.1
Allotment Wives
1945·6.7
Girls of the Big House
1945·7.5
Lady on a Train
1945·6.7
Two O'Clock Courage
1945·6.3
The Corn Is Green
1945·7.2
Storm Over Lisbon
1944·5.4
Bathing Beauty
1944·5.9
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944·7.0
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944·10.0
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
1944·6.1
Nearly Eighteen
1943·6.5
All by Myself
1943·8.0
Dixie Dugan
1943·6.5
Shadow of a Doubt
1943·7.5
Calling All Pa's
1942·6.7
The Forest Rangers
1942·9.0
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942·5.9
Apache Trail
1942·7.0
The Sons of the Pioneers
1942·9.0
My Favorite Blonde
1942·6.4
Rings on Her Fingers
1942·6.8
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942·8.0
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941·7.1
Miss Polly
1941·4.9
One Foot in Heaven
1941·6.9
I Wake Up Screaming
1941·6.9
Three Girls About Town
1941·6.5
Sunset in Wyoming
1941·7.0
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941·6.0
Mr. District Attorney
1941·5.8
The Face Behind the Mask
1941·6.5
The Invisible Woman
1940·5.7
Little Men
1940·5.5
Arise, My Love
1940·6.3
Strike Up the Band
1940·6.6
The Howards of Virginia
1940·6.8
Young People
1940·5.3
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940·6.0
New Moon
1940·6.9
Opened by Mistake
1940·7.0
Curtain Call
1940·7.3
Free, Blonde and 21
1940·7.3
The Shop Around the Corner
1940·8.1
Remember?
1939·6.0
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939·6.0
Meet Dr. Christian
1939·7.0
Too Busy to Work
1939·10.0
Drunk Driving
1939·5.8
Sabotage
1939·6.6
Espionage Agent
1939·6.3
Here I Am a Stranger
1939·7.3
Coast Guard
1939·6.0
Unmarried
1939·4.8
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939·5.8
Persons in Hiding
1939·3.8
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939·6.7
Boy Trouble
1939·6.0
A Doggone Mixup
1938·7.0
The Shining Hour
1938·6.7
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938·6.3
A Man to Remember
1938·6.7
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938·4.2
Woman Against Woman
1938·7.0
The Beloved Brat
1938·6.5
Women Are Like That
1938·6.8
Judge Hardy's Children
1938·6.8
Merrily We Live
1938·6.9
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938·7.0
Love Is a Headache
1938·6.5
The Awful Truth
1937·7.2
It's Love I'm After
1937·7.1
Varsity Show
1937·6.8
Public Wedding
1937·6.0
Big Business
1937·7.5
We're on the Jury
1937·6.2
The General Died at Dawn
1936·6.5
Theodora Goes Wild
1936·6.6
Two-Fisted Gentleman
1936·9.0
Palm Springs
1936·8.0
Early to Bed
1936·8.0
The Golden Arrow
1936·6.3
Colleen
1936·5.8
The Walking Dead
1936·6.3
Stars Over Broadway
1935·5.6
It's in the Air
1935·6.3
I Live My Life
1935·6.7
Two-Fisted
1935·8.5
People Will Talk
1935·4.3
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935·7.1
Shadow of Doubt
1935·6.6
Sweepstake Annie
1935·4.8
The World Accuses
1934·6.5
My Grandfather's Clock
1934·8.0
American Madness
1932·6.9
Wayward
1932·6.3
Glorifying the American Girl
1929·5.6
Two Americans
1929·7.0