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Sarah Edwards
Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
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…
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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).
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1952
Carson City
Movie Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
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1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
Movie Mrs. East (uncredited)
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1949
Air Hostess
Movie Bertha Hallum
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1948
Family Honeymoon
Movie Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
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1948
California Firebrand
Movie Granny Hortense Mason
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1948
The Main Street Kid
Movie Mrs. Clauson
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1947
The Bishop's Wife
Movie Mrs. Duffy
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1947
Good News
Movie Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
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1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Movie Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
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1947
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Movie
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1946
It's a Wonderful Life
Movie Mrs. Hatch
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1946
Undercurrent
Movie Cora (uncredited)
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1946
The Verdict
Movie Housekeeper (uncredited)
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1946
Song of Arizona
Movie Dolly Finnuccin
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1946
Girl on the Spot
Movie Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
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1945
Saratoga Trunk
Movie Miss Diggs (uncredited)
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1945
Allotment Wives
Movie Sadie
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1945
Girls of the Big House
Movie Dormitory Matron
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1945
Lady on a Train
Movie
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1945
Two O'Clock Courage
Movie Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
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1945
The Corn Is Green
Movie Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
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1944
Storm Over Lisbon
Movie Maude Perry-Tonides
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1944
Bathing Beauty
Movie Faculty Member (uncredited)
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1944
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Movie Mrs. Bradley
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1944
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Movie Mrs. Bradley
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1944
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Movie Mrs. Hargue
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1943
Nearly Eighteen
Movie Miss Perkins
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1943
All by Myself
Movie Mrs. Vincent
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1943
Dixie Dugan
Movie Mrs. Kelly
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1943
Shadow of a Doubt
Movie Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
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1942
Calling All Pa's
Movie Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
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1942
The Forest Rangers
Movie Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
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1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Movie Selma Quentin
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1942
Apache Trail
Movie Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
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1942
The Sons of the Pioneers
Movie Housekeeper
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1942
My Favorite Blonde
Movie Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
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1942
Rings on Her Fingers
Movie
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1942
Dudes Are Pretty People
Movie Miss Priddle
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1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Movie Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
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1941
Miss Polly
Movie Angie Turner
