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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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15 September 1950
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
04 October 1935
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
26 March 1938
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
12 March 1943
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War.
24 June 1938
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
20 December 1946
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr.
03 October 1935
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem.
17 November 1939
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
04 December 1947
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe.
30 August 1940
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
08 March 1939
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr.
25 August 1949
The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II.
01 November 1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
04 December 1941
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
12 November 1943
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
09 July 1937
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale.
01 April 1944
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
10 February 1939
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
29 January 1935
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner.
18 April 1940
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
28 October 1939
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem.
28 June 1940
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
14 October 1938
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
18 June 1937
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well.
13 October 1939
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop.
13 April 1945
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
27 January 1939
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
19 September 1940
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard.
05 June 1936
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
12 February 1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands.
01 October 1942
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
08 November 1945
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
03 August 1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels.
14 November 1941
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets.
12 January 1943
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit.
28 June 1940
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid.
23 October 1941
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it.
25 December 1947
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow.
02 September 1938
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
12 January 1940
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
23 May 1936
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
17 November 1939
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
16 October 1944
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
01 April 1948
Directed by Philip Ford in 1948. When cowboy Monte Hale (Monte Hale) returns home to investigate his uncle's murder, he's mistaken for a fierce outlaw and is hired by the town's corrupt mayor, Lance Dawson (Douglas Evans), as the new sheriff.
19 December 1939
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry.
13 March 1942
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
29 November 1940
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused.
24 May 1935
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel.
14 January 1938
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
17 November 1938
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby.
11 November 1946
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past.
04 September 1937
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show.
31 October 1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
04 March 1938
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform.
28 March 1940
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
05 December 1938
Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
15 August 1932
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair.
11 November 1934
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
16 January 1941
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
