Overview
Born : February 15, 1899 in Litchfield, Minnesota, USA
Died : August 14, 1985 in Woodland Hills, California, USA (cerebral vascular thrombosis)
Birth Name : Edith Holm Sondergaard
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Oscar : Best Actress in a Supporting Role Anthony Adverse (1937)
Shrewd, manipulative, perilously clever and evil were the catchphrases that best depicted the jobs that Gale Sondergaard played in movies, making her quite possibly the most skilled person entertainer at any point seen on the screen. She was instructed at the University of Minnesota and later wedded chief Herbert J. Biberman. Her better half went to look for a job in Hollywood and she hesitantly followed him there. In spite of the fact that she had broad involvement with stage work, she had no goal of turning into an entertainer in film. Her brain was changed after she was found by chief Mervyn LeRoy, who offered her a vital job in his film Anthony Adverse (1936); she acknowledged the part and was granted the absolute first Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. LeRoy initially cast her as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939), yet she believed she was not appropriate for that job. All things considered, she co-featured inverse Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), a film that won Best Picture in 1937. Sondergaard's most-recollected job was that of the evil and crafty spouse of a husband killed by Bette Davis' personality in The Letter (1940). Sondergaard proceeded with her vocation ascend in movies like Juarez (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940), The Black Cat (1941), and Anna and the King of Siam (1946). Sadly, she was boycotted when she would not affirm during the McCarthy-motivated "Red Scare" insanity during the 1950s. She in the end got back to films during the 1960s and showed up in the 1983 film Echoes (1982). Hurricane Sondergaard died of an undisclosed sickness at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, at 86 years old.
She was boycotted with her significant other in 1948.
Her little girl passed on in October 1965.
Planned to play the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939), yet rather than making the witch like Snow White's delightful however insidious sovereign, as was initially arranged, it was concluded the witch ought to be monstrous. Hurricane then, at that point, declined the job.
Was one of the fundamental motivations for the appearance of the Evil Queen/Witch in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and was unexpectedly dismissed {due to her looks as recently referenced) as the malicious witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film that tried to benefit from the prevalence of the previous and fantasies like it.
In secondary school plays, she learned at the Minneapolis School of Dramatic Arts.
Joined the Chautauqua theater circuit in 1920 as an ingenue and after a year turned into an individual from the John Keller Shakespeare Company, visiting Canada and America in creations of "Hamlet," "Julius Caesar," "The Merchant of Venice" and "Macbeth.".
First entertainer to win an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Anthony Adverse (1936)).
In 1936 she and Maria Ouspenskaya turned into the initial two entertainers (of more than 50) to get an Oscar designation for their film debut. She was named (and won) the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Anthony Adverse (1936).
Sondergaard's folks had emigrated from Denmark independently.
In spite of the fact that she was conceived Edith, Sondergaard picked the name "Hurricane" as a phase name while an entertainer on the Chautauqua circuit.
In the wake of entering the University of Minnesota she joined the School of Music and Dramatic Arts, as the school didn't have a dramatization division.
Soondergaard supplanted Judith Anderson in the Theater Guild of New York's development of Eugene O'Neill's "Weird Interlude".
Regardless of mainstream thinking, Sondergaard never marked an agreement with Warners in the wake of winning an Oscar for "Anthony Adverse." She marked a one-year agreement with MGM in 1938 and a drawn out manage Universal, which created 14 of her movies somewhere in the range of 1941 and 1947.
After she was boycotted in 1947, chief Mervyn LeRoy, who had offered her first reprieve in "Anthony Adverse," cast her in a supporting job as Barbara Stanwyck's mom in "East Side, West Side" to test industry response. The negative reaction to her appearance finished the boycotting, and she didn't show up in another significant Hollywood film for quite a long time.
After she was gotten back to for retakes on the TV film "The Cat Creature," she was amazed by Charlton Heston, who gave her a gold Oscar statuette supplanting the plaque she had won many years sooner for "Anthony Adverse.".
Was considered for the job of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Was the ninth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Anthony Adverse (1936) at the ninth Academy Awards on March 4, 1937.
History in "Entertainers of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
Little girl of Hans (1867-1947) and Kristine (née Hansen) Sondergaard (1872-1934). Both were brought into the world in Denmark, moving to America in 1892.
Had two taken on kids with spouse Herbert J. Biberman: girl Joan Kristina Campos (nee Biberman; December 31, 1940 - October 24, 1965), and child Daniel Hans Biberman (b. December 11, 1942).
Was in three Oscar Best Picture chosen people: Anthony Adverse (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and The Letter (1940). The Life of Emile Zola won in this classification.
Albeit inconsequential, she looks similar to Cornelia Otis Skinner.
More seasoned sister of Hester Sondergaard.
List of Gale Sondergaard Movies
- Echoes
- The Fall Guy (TV Series)
- Centennial (TV Mini Series)
- Visions (TV Series)
- The Return of a Man Called Horse
- The Cat Creature (TV Movie)
- Night Gallery (TV Series)
- Savage Intruder
- The Best of Everything (TV Series)
- Tango (TV Movie)
- Slaves
- East Side, West Side
- Road to Rio
- Pirates of Monterey
- The Time of Their Lives
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Night in Paradise
- The Spider Woman Strikes Back
- Enter Arsene Lupin
- The Climax
- Gypsy Wildcat
- Christmas Holiday
- The Invisible Man's Revenge
- Follow the Boys
- The Spider Woman
- Crazy House
- The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
- Isle of Forgotten Sins
- Appointment in Berlin
- A Night to Remember
- The Lido Mystery
- My Favorite Blonde
- Paris Calling
- The Black Cat
- The Letter
- The Mark of Zorro
- The Blue Bird
- The Llano Kid
- The Cat and the Canary
- Sons of Liberty (Short)
- Juarez
- Never Say Die
- Dramatic School
- The Boy from Barnardo's
- The Life of Emile Zola
- Seventh Heaven
- Maid of Salem
- Anthony Adverse & Many more….
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