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Gale Sondergaard

Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 - August 13, 1985) was a US film actress.

Born Edith Holm Sondergaard in Litchfield, Minnesota to Danish parents, Sondergaard began her acting career in the theater. She made her first film appearance in Anthony Adverse (1936) and became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this performance.

Her career as a supporting actress flourished during the 1930s.

Walt Disney Studios used her as the main inspiration for the Wicked Queen in the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Originally cast as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939), she was replaced by Margaret Hamilton when MGM decided to change the Wicked Witch from a glamorous character to an ugly one.

In 1940 she played a role which would become one of her most identifiable, as the exotic and sinister wife in The Letter. She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946.

Married to the film director Herbert J. Biberman from 1930, her career suffered irreparable damage during the Red Scare of the early 1950s, when her husband was accused of being a communist and named as one of the Hollywood Ten. With her career stalled, she supported her husband during the production of Salt of the Earth (1954). Highly controversial when it was made, and not a commercial success, its artistic and cultural merit was recognised in 1992 when the National Film Preservation Board selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Biberman died in 1971, and Sondergaard made a few more film and television appearances, before dying from cerebral vascular thrombosis at Woodland Hills, California.


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Biberman died in 1971, and Sondergaard made a few more film and television appearances, before dying from cerebral vascular thrombosis at Woodland Hills, California.  
 
 
. Highly controversial when it was made, and not a commercial success, its artistic and cultural merit was recognised in 1992 when the National Film Preservation Board selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. She returned to Sweden for medical treatment and later died from cancer in Stockholm, Sweden, short of her 78th birthday. With her career stalled, she supported her husband during the production of Salt of the Earth (1954). In her later years she lived in Rome, Italy. Biberman from 1930, her career suffered irreparable damage during the Red Scare of the early 1950s, when her husband was accused of being a communist and named as one of the Hollywood Ten. For years she worked with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, where she developed her personal style, acting with neurotic intensity like in The Silence (1963) or Cries and Whispers (1972), making her the third actress of world fame coming from Sweden (after Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman).

Married to the film director Herbert J. She took ballet lessons as a girl and was accepted by the Stockholm Royal Dramatic Theatre's School in 1948. She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946. She was born as a fisherman's daughter in Sollefteå, Ångermanland in northern Sweden. In 1940 she played a role which would become one of her most identifiable, as the exotic and sinister wife in The Letter. Ingrid Thulin (January 27, 1926 – January 07, 2004) was a Swedish actress. Originally cast as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939), she was replaced by Margaret Hamilton when MGM decided to change the Wicked Witch from a glamorous character to an ugly one. ISBN 0-498-02013-4.

Walt Disney Studios used her as the main inspiration for the Wicked Queen in the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Stars and Players.
London: The Tantivy Press. Her career as a supporting actress flourished during the 1930s. Cowie, Peter (1977): Film in Sweden. She made her first film appearance in Anthony Adverse (1936) and became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this performance. SBN 302-02010-1. Born Edith Holm Sondergaard in Litchfield, Minnesota to Danish parents, Sondergaard began her acting career in the theater. Zwemmer Ltd (Screen Series).

Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 - August 13, 1985) was a US film actress. A Comprehensive Assessment of the Themes, Trends, and Directors in Swedish Cinema.
London: A. Cowie, Peter (1970): Sweden 2. SBN 302-02009-8. Zwemmer Ltd (Screen Series).

to the Work of the Leading Directors, Players, Technicians, and other Key Figures in Swedish Cinema, with Credits and Plot outlines to more than seventy important Films, and Index to 1,000 Titles.
London: A. An Illustrated Guide .. Cowie, Peter (1970): Sweden 1. Il Giorno Prima / Contrôle (1987)
with Ben Gazzara, Mike Zella, Kate Nelligan, Sarah Howell, Kate Reid, Camille Dupont, Burt Lancaster.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo.

La Cage (1975)
with Lino Ventura.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre. Viskningar och Rop / Cries and Whispers (1972)
with Liv Ullmann.
Director: Bergman yet again. Tystnaden / The Silence (1963)
with Gunnel Lindblom.
Director: Bergman again. Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries (1957)
with Viktor Sjostrom
Director: Ingmar Bergman.

Foreign Intrigue (1956)
with Robert Mitchum, Geneviève Page.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds.