Sarah Edwards
- Recitazione
- 11 ottobre 1881 · Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales
- 7 gennaio 1965
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Nevada express · Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
- Accidenti che ragazza! · Mrs. East (uncredited)
- Air Hostess · Bertha Hallum
- Abbandonata in viaggio di nozze · Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
- California Firebrand · Granny Hortense Mason
- The Main Street Kid · Mrs. Clauson
- La moglie del vescovo · Mrs. Duffy
- Good News · Miss Pritchard (uncredited)
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge · Mrs. Dessark (uncredited)
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride
- La vita è meravigliosa · Mrs. Hatch
- Tragico segreto · Cora (uncredited)
- La morte viene da Scotland Yard · Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Song of Arizona · Dolly Finnuccin
- Girl on the Spot · Mrs. Richards (uncredited)
- Saratoga · Miss Diggs (uncredited)
- Allotment Wives · Sadie
- Girls of the Big House · Dormitory Matron
- Due pantofole e una ragazza
- Il coraggio delle due · Mrs. Tuttle (Patty's Landlady) (uncredited)
- Il grano è verde · Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
- Storm Over Lisbon · Maude Perry-Tonides
- Bellezze al bagno · Faculty Member (uncredited)
- Henry Aldrich's Little Secret · Mrs. Bradley
- Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid · Mrs. Bradley
- Charlie Chan nei servizi segreti · Mrs. Hargue
- Nearly Eighteen · Miss Perkins
- All by Myself · Mrs. Vincent
- Dixie Dugan · Mrs. Kelly
- L'ombra del dubbio · Doctor's Wife on Train (uncredited)
- Calling All Pa's · Grandma Vanderscnooze (uncredited)
- The Forest Rangers · Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)
- Scattergood Survives a Murder · Selma Quentin
- Apache Trail · Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
- The Sons of the Pioneers · Housekeeper
- My Favorite Blonde · Mrs. Weatherwax (uncredited)
- Ragazze che sognano
- Dudes Are Pretty People · Miss Priddle
- Il molto onorevole Mr. Pulham · Mrs. Motford - Kay's Mother (uncredited)
- Miss Polly · Angie Turner
- One Foot in Heaven · Mrs. Spicer (uncredited)
- Situazione pericolosa · Customer (uncredited)
- Three Girls About Town · Clubwoman
- Sunset in Wyoming · Susanna Hawkins Peabody
- Tom, Dick e Harry · Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
- Mr. District Attorney · Miss Petherby
- L'uomo della maschera · Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
- La donna invisibile · Showroom Buyer (uncredited)
- I due avventurieri · Landlady
- Arrivederci in Francia · Spinster (uncredited)
- Musica indiavolata · Miss Hodges
- Quelli della Virginia · Neighbor Girl
- Young People · Mrs. Stinchfield
- Lucky Cisco Kid · Spinster
- Luna nuova · Marquise della Rosa
- Opened by Mistake · Mrs. Karff (uncredited)
- Curtain Call · Literary Committee Member
- Free, Blonde and 21 · Undetermined Role
- Scrivimi fermo posta · Woman Customer
- Una donna dimentica · Lady in Revolving Door
- The Amazing Mr. Williams · Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
- Meet Dr. Christian · Mrs. Minnows
- Too Busy to Work
- Drunk Driving · Driver (uncredited)
- Sabotage · (uncredited)
- Espionage Agent · Militant American Tourist
- Here I Am a Stranger · Chaperone at Dance
- Angeli del mare · Florence (uncredited)
- Unmarried · Mrs. Jones
- Blondie Meets the Boss · Saleswoman (uncredited)
- Persons in Hiding · Beauty Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Annie Rucker (uncredited)
- Boy Trouble · Mrs. Moots
- A Doggone Mixup
- Ossessione del passato · Chairwoman of Morals Society (uncredited)
- La dama e il cowboy · Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
- A Man to Remember · Clerk (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy · Autograph Session Chairwoman (uncredited)
- Woman Against Woman · Party Guest
- The Beloved Brat · School Board Member Miss Brundage