Gale Sondergaard Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sly, manipulative, dangerously cunning and sinister were the key words that best described the roles that Gale Sondergaard played in motion pictures, making her one of the most talented character actresses ever seen on the screen. She was educated at the University of Minnesota and later married director Herbert J. Biberman. Her husband went to ...
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Movies
Anthony Adverse, The Life of Emile Zola, The Mark of Zorro, The Letter, The Spider Woman, The Return of a Man Called Horse, Anna and the King of Siam, The Cat and the Canary, The Blue Bird, The Spider Woman Strikes Back, Road to Rio, East Side, West Side, Juarez, The Black Cat, The Time of Their Liv...
TV Shows
The Best of Everything
Star Sign
Aquarius
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My parents were both progressive people learning much from Henrik Ibsen. My mother believed that a woman should not be tied down to family with nothing else in her life. They were also progressive politically. My father, we thought, voted the Democratic ticket, but actually he voted the Socialist ticket; my mother was a suffragette and I marched in parades with her.
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Fact
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Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
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Was the 9th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Anthony Adverse (1936) at The 9th Academy Awards on March 4, 1937.
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Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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After she was called back for retakes on the TV movie "The Cat Creature," she was surprised by Charlton Heston, who presented her with a gold Oscar statuette replacing the plaque she had won decades earlier for "Anthony Adverse.".
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After she was blacklisted in 1947, director Mervyn LeRoy, who had given her her first break in "Anthony Adverse," cast her in a supporting role as Barbara Stanwyck's mother in "East Side, West Side" in order to test industry reaction. The negative response to her appearance completed the blacklisting, and she didn't appear in another major Hollywood film film for 28 years.
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Despite popular belief, Sondergaard never signed a contract with Warners after winning an Oscar for "Anthony Advers," She did sign a one year contract with MGM in 1938 and a long term deal with Universal, which produced 14 films between 1941 and 1947.
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Soondergaard replaced Judith Anderson in the Theater Guild New York of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude.".
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After entering the University of Minnesota she joined the School of Music and Dramatic Arts as the school did not have a drama department.
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Although she was born Edith, Sondergaard chose the name "Gale" as a stage name while an actress on the Chattaqua circuit after.
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Sondergaard's parents had emigrated from Denmark separately.
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In 1936 she became the first actress, tied with Maria Ouspenskaya, of currently 53 actresses to receive an Oscar nomination for their film debut. She was nominated (and won) Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Anthony Adverse (1936).
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First actress to win an Oscar for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" (Anthony Adverse (1936))
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Joined the Chatauqua theatre circuit in 1920 as an ingenue and a year later became a member of the John Keller Shakespeare Company where she toured Canada and America in productions of "Hamlet," "Julius Caesar," "The Merchant of Venice" and "Macbeth."
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In high school plays, she studied at the Minneapolis School of Dramatic Arts.
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Was one of the main inspirations for the look of the Evil Queen/Witch in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and was ironically rejected {due to her looks as previously mentioned) as the evil witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film that sought to capitalize on the popularity of the former and fairy tales like it.
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Was going to play the Wicked Witch of The West in the The Wizard of Oz (1939), but instead of making the witch similar to Snow White's beautiful but wicked queen, as was originally planned, they decided the witch should be ugly. Gale then refused the role.
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Her daughter died in October 1965.
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She was blacklisted with her husband in 1948.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Echoes
1982
Mrs. Edmunds
The Fall Guy
1981
TV Series
Mrs. Jackson
Centennial
1979
TV Mini-Series
Aunt Agusta
Visions
1977
TV Series
Ora Drummond
Pleasantville
1976
Ora
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
Elk Woman
Ryan's Hope
1976
TV Series
Marguerite Beaulac
Police Story
1974
TV Series
Marge White
Nakia
1974
TV Series
Medical Center
1974
TV Series
Myra
The Cat Creature
1973
TV Movie
Hester Black
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1971
TV Series
Mrs. Marley
Night Gallery
1971
TV Series
Abigail Moore (segment "The Dark Boy")
Tango
1970
TV Movie
The Best of Everything
1970
TV Series
Amanda Key (1970)
Get Smart
1970
TV Series
Hester Van Hooten
Savage Intruder
1970
Leslie
It Takes a Thief
1969
TV Series
Madame Olga Millard
Slaves
1969
New Orleans lady
East Side, West Side
1949
Nora Kernan
Road to Rio
1947
Catherine Vail
Pirates of Monterey
1947
Señorita de Sola
The Time of Their Lives
1946
Emily
Anna and the King of Siam
1946
Lady Thiang
Night in Paradise
1946
Attosa
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
1946
Zenobia Dollard
Enter Arsene Lupin
1944
Bessie Seagrave
The Climax
1944
Luise
Gypsy Wildcat
1944
Rhoda
Christmas Holiday
1944
Mrs. Manette
The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944
Irene, Lady Herrick
Follow the Boys
1944
Gale Sondergaard (uncredited)
The Spider Woman
1944
Adrea Spedding
Crazy House
1943
Gale Sondergaard (uncredited)
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
1943
Anna Huber
Isle of Forgotten Sins
1943
Marge Willison
Appointment in Berlin
1943
Greta Van Leyden
A Night to Remember
1942
Mrs. Devoe
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1942
Mrs. Van Dorn
My Favorite Blonde
1942
Madame Stephanie Runick
Paris Calling
1941
Colette
The Black Cat
1941
Abigail Doone
The Letter
1940
Mrs. Hammond
The Mark of Zorro
1940
Inez Quintero
The Blue Bird
1940
Tylette
The Llano Kid
1939
Lora Travers
The Cat and the Canary
1939
Miss Lu
Sons of Liberty
1939
Short
Rachel Salomon
Juarez
1939
Empress Eugénie
Never Say Die
1939
Juno Marko
Dramatic School
1938
Madame Charlot
Lord Jeff
1938
Doris Clandon
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
Lucie Dreyfus
Seventh Heaven
1937
Nana, Diane's Sister
Maid of Salem
1937
Martha - His Wife
Anthony Adverse
1936
Faith
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee
1978
TV Special
Herself - Interview
The 50th Annual Academy Awards
1978
TV Special
Herself - Past Winner
Hollywood on Trial
1976
Documentary
Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists
$1.1 Million
