Biography
After a tentative movie debut in the New York-filmed 1929 musical
Glorifying the American Girl, stately character actress Sarah Edwards settled in Hollywood for keeps in 1935. Another of those performers who evidently jumped directly from birth to old age, Edwards portrayed many a kindly grandmother, imperious dowager, hardy pioneer wife, ill-tempered teacher and strict governess. She played peripheral roles in films like
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and Shadow of the Doubt (1942), and enjoyed larger assignments in films like
Hal Roach's
Dudes are Pretty People (1942, as "The Colonel") and
Frank Capra's
It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Sarah Edwards is not related to the 1980s TV personality of the same name. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide