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Movies starring Gale Sondergaard have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
The Letter - released in 1940 - is Gale Sondergaard's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 84 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Gale Sondergaard is The Climax - released in 1944 - with a score of 44% based on 7 reviews.
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 has 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) 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 definition.
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.
Gale Sondergaard has acted in films with Pedro de Cordoba, Walter Kingsford, Bob Hope and Franklyn Farnum.
Gale Sondergaard has worked with these film directors: Mervyn LeRoy, William Dieterle, William Wyler and Irvin Kershner.
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