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Sarah Edwards is a Actor British born on 9 october 1881

Sarah Edwards

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 9 october 1881
Death 7 january 1965 (at 83 years)

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.

Biography

Installée aux États-Unis, Sarah Edwards joue au théâtre à Broadway (New York) entre 1919 et 1931, dans une pièce, trois comédies musicales et deux opérettes du tandem William S. Gilbert-Arthur Sullivan, dont The Mikado en 1925 (avec Lupino Lane).

Au cinéma, comme second rôle de caractère ou dans des petits rôles non crédités, elle contribue à cent-quatre-vingt-dix films américains, les trois premiers (dont deux courts métrages) sortis en 1929 ; le dernier est Les Conquérants de Carson City d'André De Toth (avec Randolph Scott et Raymond Massey), sorti en 1952.

Entretemps, citons L'Aventure de minuit d'Archie Mayo (1937, avec Leslie Howard, Bette Davis et Olivia de Havilland), En avant la musique de Busby Berkeley (1940, avec Mickey Rooney et Judy Garland), La vie est belle de Frank Capra (1946, avec James Stewart et Donna Reed), ou encore Honni soit qui mal y pense d'Henry Koster (1947, avec Cary Grant, Loretta Young et David Niven).

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(15 films)
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(14 films)
Irving Bacon
Irving Bacon
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Cyril Ring
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Dick Elliott
Dick Elliott
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sarah Edwards (102 films)

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Actor

Carson City, 1h27
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey, Richard Webb, Thurston Hall, James Millican
Roles Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1963253.1963253.1963253.1963253.196325
Mine owner William Sharon (Larry Keating) keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker (Thurston Hall), who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by rail.
The Glass Menagerie, 1h47
Directed by Irving Rapper, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, John Arthur Kennedy, Ralph Sanford, Ann Tyrrell
Roles M Miller
Rating70% 3.5378353.5378353.5378353.5378353.537835
While on duty, Merchant Mariner Tom Wingfield recalls his life in a dilapidated St. Louis apartment with his delusional mother Amanda and crippled younger sister Laura, and their story unfolds via flashback.
The Fuller Brush Girl, 1h25
Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Red Skelton, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell
Roles Mrs. East (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.2946353.2946353.2946353.2946353.294635
Sally (Lucille Ball) et son petit ami Humphrey (Eddie Albert), se trouvent mêlés à la mort de M Simpson, la femme de leur patron Harvey Simpson (Jerome Cowan).
The Petty Girl
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester, Melville Cooper, Audrey Long, Mary Wickes
Roles professeur Morrison
Rating59% 2.996722.996722.996722.996722.99672
In New York City, George Petty (Robert Cummings) tries to convince car manufacturer B. J. Manton to use pretty women to help advertise his dreary new car model. He is not succeeding when Manton's daughter, the often-married Mrs. Connie Manton Dezlow (Audrey Long), interrupts the business meeting, takes a liking to the handsome young artist, and makes herself his patron. Soon, she has furnished him with a lavish apartment, complete with a butler named Beardsley (Melville Cooper). She also talks him into abandoning his cheesecake paintings in favor of more respectable portraits.
The Bishop's Wife, 1h49
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper
Roles Mrs. Duffy
Rating75% 3.7967353.7967353.7967353.7967353.796735
Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven), troubled with funding the building of a new cathedral, prays for divine guidance. His plea is seemingly answered by a suave angel named Dudley (Cary Grant), who reveals his identity only to the clergyman.
The Voice of the Turtle, 1h43
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith, John Emery
Roles Femme cherchant ses tickets de théâtre
Rating67% 3.392753.392753.392753.392753.39275
A young actress, Sally Middleton, agrees to a date with a soldier, Bill Page, on a weekend pass after he's stood up by Olive Lashbrooke, her friend. When the soldier has trouble getting a hotel room, he ends up spending the weekend at her apartment.
Family Honeymoon, 1h30
Directed by Claude Binyon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Rita Johnson, William H. Daniels, Gigi Perreau, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Mrs. Carp (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.191863.191863.191863.191863.19186
Katie Armstrong (Claudette Colbert) is a young widow and mother of three children - Charlie (Jimmy Hunt), Abner (Peter Miles) and Zoe (Gigi Perreau). She is also engaged to be married to botany professor Grant Jordan (Fred MacMurray). Grant is seeking funds to raise a new botany research building on the university campus where he works, and the most influential person to convince in this quest is his chancellor, Richard Fenster Paul Harvey. Grant used to be involved with the chancellor’s daughter, Minna (Rita Johnson), and is surprised, to say the least, when Minna crashes his bachelor party. Minna also almost succeeds in completely ruining Katie’s engagement party. When Katie hears about Minna’s visit at the bachelor party, Grant does his best to assure her that Minna is a finished chapter in his book, but he also has a hard time completely ignoring her, since he needs to be on good foot with the chancellor himself.
The Romance of Rosy Ridge, 1h41
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance, Western
Actors Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh, Marshall Thompson, Selena Royle, Charles Dingle
Roles M Dessark
Rating69% 3.4908853.4908853.4908853.4908853.490885
Henry Carson (Van Johnson), a schoolteacher before the Civil War, shows up in a rural region of the Missouri hills. He spends the night with a family consisting of Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell), his wife Sairy (Selena Royle), and two of their children, Lissy Anne (Janet Leigh), and youngster Andrew (Dean Stockwell). Another son, Ben (Marshall Thompson), had run off to fight in the war; the family's hope that he will someday return is gradually waning.
Undercurrent, 1h56
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Cora (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.245013.245013.245013.245013.24501
Ann Hamilton (Katharine Hepburn) is a middle-aged bride who begins to suspect that her charming husband Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor) plans to murder her. Nor can she ignore the shadow of her brother-in-law Michael Garroway (Robert Mitchum), whom she's never met but has been told so much about.
Easy to Wed, 1h46
Directed by Edward Buzzell, Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway, Ben Blue
Roles M Dibson
Rating61% 3.0500153.0500153.0500153.0500153.050015
Financier J.B. Allenbury (Cecil Kellaway) is determined to file a $2 million libel suit against The Morning Star when the newspaper prints a story claiming his daughter Connie (Esther Williams) was responsible for the breakup of a marriage. Anxious to save his paper from financial ruin, editor Curtis Farwood (Paul Harvey) enlists the help of business manager Warren Haggerty (Keenan Wynn), who postpones his marriage to Gladys Benton (Lucille Ball) in order to assist his employer.
It's a Wonderful Life, 2h10
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Alternate history films
Actors James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Mrs. Hatch
Rating85% 4.2986054.2986054.2986054.2986054.298605
In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. Prayers for him reach Heaven. Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George in order to earn his angel wings. To prepare Clarence, his superior Joseph shows flashbacks of George's life.
The Corn Is Green, 1h55
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, John Dall, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock, Joan Lorring
Roles Mrs. Watty's Friend (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.645783.645783.645783.645783.64578
Middle-aged Lily Cristobel Moffatt (Bette Davis) sets up a school in a Welsh coal mining town, despite the determined opposition of the local squire (Nigel Bruce). Eventually, she considers giving up. Then she discovers a promising student, Morgan Evans, a miner seemingly destined for a life of hard work and heavy drink. With renewed hope, she works hard to help him realise his potential.
Allotment Wives, 1h20
Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Paul Kelly, Kay Francis, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, Teala Loring, Bernard Nedell
Roles Sadie
Rating60% 3.000833.000833.000833.000833.00083
The Office of Dependancy Benefits, O.D.B., is a U.S. government agency in charge of payment and financial support to women who have husbands serving in the World War II. Even after the war, the office still handles all these issues.
Lady on a Train, 1h34
Directed by Felix Jackson, Charles David
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, Dan Duryea, Allen Jenkins, Edward Everett Horton
Rating66% 3.3470753.3470753.3470753.3470753.347075
Debutante Nikki Collins, an enthusiastic reader of detective stories, witnesses a murder through a building window while passing by on a train entering New York's Grand Central Station. She goes to the police, but is frustrated to find that no one believes her. The police think that her story is the product of an overactive imagination.