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Gale Sondergaard

Highest Rated: 100% My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Lowest Rated: 18% Anthony Adverse (1936)

Birthday: Feb 15, 1899

Birthplace: Litchfield, Minnesota, USA

Gifted, successful NY stage actress in Hollywood from 1934, primarily as Hollywood's premiere scene-stealing exotic villainess. A tall, dark-haired performer capable of displaying the haughty disdain of a New England Puritan ("Maid of Salem" 1937), the suspicious sneer of a haunted mansion's housekeeper ("The Cat and the Canary" 1939) or the feline deception of a cat-turned-human ("The Bluebird" 1940) with equal ease, Sondergaard also performed very well in such occasional sympathetic parts as Mrs. Dreyfus in "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937). She was memorable as one of Sherlock Holmes's most cunning nemeses in "Spider Woman" (1944). Politically active, and married to "Hollywood Ten" member Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard was blacklisted in the late 1940s but returned to act in several films of the late 60s and 70s as well as star in a one-woman off-Broadway show, "Woman." Her 1936 best supporting actress Academy Award (for "Anthony Adverse," her first film) was the first to be given in that category.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 74% My Favorite Blonde
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100% 82% The Letter
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100% 77% Road to Rio
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92% 79% The Mark of Zorro
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92% 74% The Life of Emile Zola
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89% 69% Anna and the King of Siam
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78% 49% Christmas Holiday
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71% 49% Juarez
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55% 42% The Return of a Man Called Horse
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43% 74% East Side, West Side
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Filmography

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Echoes 1983 Mrs. Edmunds Actor The Return of a Man Called Horse 55% 42% 1976 Elk Woman Actor The Cat Creature 1973 Hester Black Actor Savage Intruder 33% 1970 Leslie Actor East Side, West Side 43% 74% 1949 Nora Kernan Actor Road to Rio 100% 77% 1947 Catherine Vail Actor Pirates of Monterey 1947 Señorita de Sola Actor Anna and the King of Siam 89% 69% 1946 Sondergaard Actor A Night in Paradise 1946 Attosa Actor The Time of Their Lives 80% 1946 Emily Actor The Spider Woman Strikes Back 1946 Miss Zenobia Dollard Actor Gypsy Wildcat 1944 Rhoda Actor Christmas Holiday 78% 49% 1944 Mrs. Manette Actor The Invisible Man's Revenge 40% 21% 1944 Irene Actor Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman 73% 1944 Adrea Spedding Actor Monsoon 29% 1943 Marge Willison Actor Appointment in Berlin 1943 Gretta Van Leyden Actor The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler 1943 Anna Huber Actor A Night to Remember 49% 1942 Mrs. Devoe Actor My Favorite Blonde 100% 74% 1942 Madame Stephanie Runick Actor Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen 1942 Mrs. Van Dorn Actor The Black Cat 35% 1941 Abigail Doone Actor The Letter 100% 82% 1940 Mrs. Hammond Actor The Blue Bird 71% 1940 Tylette Actor The Mark of Zorro 92% 79% 1940 Inez Quintero Actor
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