Gale Sondergaard
Actor
Biography
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Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress.
Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse (1936). She played supporting roles in various films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Letter (1940). She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna and the King of Siam (1946) but by the end of the decade her film appearances were fewer.
Married to the director Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard supported him when he was accused of communism and named as one of the Hollywood Ten in the early 1950s, and her film career was destroyed as a result. She moved with Biberman to New York City and worked in theatre, and acted in film and television occasionally from late 1960s. She moved back to Los Angeles where she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis.
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Filmography
The Mark of Zorro
as Inez Quintero 1940
The Life of Emile Zola
as Lucie Dreyfus 1937
The Spider Woman
as Adrea Spedding 1943
The Cat and the Canary
as Miss Lu 1939
The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Lady Irene Herrick 1944
The Return of a Man Called Horse
as Elk Woman 1976
The Time of Their Lives
as Emily 1946
Road to Rio
as Catherine Vail 1947
The Blue Bird
as Tylette (the cat) 1940
The Black Cat
as Abigail Doone 1941
Anna and the King of Siam
as Lady Thiang 1946
Christmas Holiday
as Mrs. Manette 1944
The Climax
as Luise 1944
Anthony Adverse
as Faith Paleologus 1936
Juarez
as Empress Eugenie 1939
East Side, West Side
as Nora Kernan 1949