Sarah Edwards
Oyuncu · 1881 – 1965 · 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 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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Film8.3DramAileİflasın eşiğine gelen George Bailey (James Stewart) bir Noel gecesinde kendini nehre atarak intihar etmek üzeredir. Doğduğundan bu yana aynı küçük kasabada yaşayan Bailey kendisini buraya ve insanlarına adamış, hoşgörülü, güvenilir ve yardımsever bir insandır. Büyük bunalım'ı hasarsız atlatmış,babasından devraldığı konut ve finans şirketi aracılığı ile kasabalıların neredeyse tamamını konut sahibi yapmıştır. Bu arada para kazanmayı, mimar olma fırsatını,dünyayı gezmeyi, kısaca tüm hayallerini ertelemek zorunda kalmıştır. Kasabaya yaptığı bunca iyilik kötü yürekli banker Henry F. Potter (Lionel Barrymore)'ın çıkarları ile çakışır. Potter, Bailey'in sürekli peşindedir artık.Birgün aradığı fırsat çıkar ve Finans şirketine ait önemli bir miktarda para Bailey'in alkolik ve yaşlı amcası Billy Bailey (Thomas Mitchell)'in dalgınlığı sonucunda Potter'ın eline geçer. Banka müfettişlerinin yaptığı bir denetlemeden sonra şirketin açığı ortaya çıkar. Bu iflas ve tutuklanma anlamına gelmektedir...
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Film8.1KomediDramHediyelik eşya dükkanında çalışan Alfred Kralik ve yeni işe giren Klara Novak, tanışır tanışmaz birbirlerinden nefret ederler. Kralik’in de Novak’ın da ilgilendikleri birer mektup arkadaşı vardır. Gel gör ki birbirinden nefret eden bu iki insan, aslında birbirlerine tatlı mektuplar yazmaktadırlar…
Film7.1KomediIn this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles – a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl – is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · 86 votes
Film7.1KomediFantastikAn 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. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · 290 votes
Film7.2KomediRomantikJerry ve Lucy Warriner çifti çılgın, serserice bir yüksek sosyete hayatı sürdürmektedirler. Çok mutlu olmalarına rağmen, birbirlerinin sadakatinden şüphe etmeye başlarlar. Sonunda boşanmaya karar verirler. Lucy köpeklerinin velayetini almaya hak kazanır ama Jerry’nin köpeği ziyaret etme hakkı vardır. Boşanmaları henüz sonuçlanmadan ikisi de başka insanlarla yeni ilişkilere başlarlar. Lucy Oklahomalı petrol zengini ama sıkıcı, annesiyle birlikte seyahat etmekte olan Dan Leeson ile tanışır. Jerry sosyeteye yeni girmiş, bir mirasın varisi olan Barbara Vance’a kur yapmaktadır. Jerry ve Lucy birbirlerinin planlarını bozmaya çalışmaktadır ve bu durum oldukça komik sonuçlar doğurur.
Film5.9MüzikKomediAfter breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Bathing Beauty
1944 · 33 votes
Film7.2DramWhen a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
The Corn Is Green
1945 · 39 votes
Film6.7MaceraDramHuckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939 · 21 votes
Film6.3KomediRomantikMary 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. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938 · 29 votes
Film6.1KomediGizemA daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · 11 votes
Film6.6DramTarihBeautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
The Howards of Virginia
1940 · 16 votes
Film6.3GizemSuçA 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.
Two O'Clock Courage
1945 · 28 votes
Film6.3SuçKorkuDown-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
The Walking Dead
1936 · 97 votes
Film6.6KomediSuçWhile 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. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Lady on a Train
1945 · 54 votes
Film5.9DramGerilimAfter a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
Undercurrent
1946 · 53 votes
Film6.6KomediMüzikJimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
Strike Up the Band
1940 · 27 votes
Film5.7KomediKorkuKitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
The Invisible Woman
1940 · 91 votes
Film6.5SuçDramA 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.
The Face Behind the Mask
1941 · 48 votes
Film7.1DramRomantikA 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.
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · 11 votes
Film6.5DramGerilimChina, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
The General Died at Dawn
1936 · 23 votes
Film6.6KomediDramA society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
I Live My Life
1935 · 10 votes
Film6.0KomediRomantikJanie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941 · 21 votes
Film6.6GerilimSuçSteve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1947 · 22 votes