Gale Sondergaard
Gale Sondergaard.
Birth name	Edith Holm Sondergaard
Born	February 15, 1899 Litchfield, Minnesota, USA
Died	August 14, 1985 Woodland Hills, California, USA
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress 1936 Anthony Adverse

Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899–August 14, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning U.S. film actress. In 1936, she was the first actress to ever be awarded an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Image File history File links Gale_Sondergaard. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Litchfield is a city located in Meeker County, Minnesota. ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Anthony Adverse is a 1936 film based upon the novel by Hervey Allen. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... This article is about motion pictures. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ...

Early life

Edith Holm Sondergaard was born in Litchfield, Minnesota to Danish parents. She studied acting at the Minneapolis School of Dramatic Arts before joining the John Keller Shakespeare Company. She later toured North America in productions of Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth. Litchfield is a city located in Meeker County, Minnesota. ... Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written in 1599. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) The Merchant of Venice is one of William Shakespeares best-known plays, written sometime between 1594 and 1597. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer The Tragedy of Macbeth is among the most famous of William Shakespeares plays, as well as his shortest tragedy. ...

Career

Sondergaard made her first film appearance in Anthony Adverse as "Faith Paleologue" and became the first recipient of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for this performance. Her career as an actress flourished during the 1930s, including a role opposite Paul Muni in Academy Award-winning The Life of Emile Zola. Anthony Adverse is a 1936 film based upon the novel by Hervey Allen. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Paul Muni photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Paul Muni (September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an Academy Award-winning versatile actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund to a Jewish family in Lwow, Galicja, an ethnically Polish part of the then-Austro-Hungarian Empire... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 movie giving a biography of the famous French author Émile Zola. ...

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, and Sondergaard refused to wear the necessary disfiguring makeup. The Walt Disney Company (more commonly known as Disney; NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. ... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... The Wicked Witch of the West, also known as just the Wicked Witch, is a fictional character from L. Frank Baums childrens book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ... For the novel, see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; For comparison of book and film, see The Wizard of Oz book to film comparison; For the history of The Wizard of Oz on television, see The Wizard of Oz on television; For other senses of this title, see The Wizard... Margaret Hamilton could also refer to a local politician in the United Kingdom. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...

In 1940 she played the role with which she is perhaps most identified, the exotic and sinister wife in The Letter, supporting Bette Davis. She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the King's wife in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946. The Letter is a 1940 film noir which tells the story of a woman who murders her lover, and then must face his widow and her husband. ... Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theater. ... Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 book by Margaret Landon, a play and a 1946 movie directed by John Cromwell. ...

03:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)75.7.234.54==Private life== 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. The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Herbert J. Biberman (1900 - 1971) was a US movie director. ... Some factual claims in this article need to be verified. ... Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownershipmovement]]. Early forms of human social organization have been described as primitive communism by Marxists. ... The Hollywood Ten was a group of American screenwriters, actors, and directors, alleged members of the Communist Party, who were convicted of contempt of Congress during the height of the Red Scare. ... For other uses, see Salt of the earth. ... The United States National Film Preservation Board is the board selecting films for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...

Sondergaard and Biberman sold their home in Hollywood shortly after they completed Salt of the Earth, and moved to New York where Sondergaard was able to work in theatre. Biberman died in 1971, and Sondergaard made a few more film and television appearances, before dying from cerebral vascular thrombosis in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 86. She had 2 children; Joan Kirstine Biberman (2 children; Joseph A.D. Campos and Jennifer Gale Campos) and Daniel Hans Biberman; no children. For other uses, see Salt of the earth. ... Thrombosis is the formation of a clot or thrombus inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ...

Selected Filmography

Sondergaard acted in over 40 films in 5 decades. This article is about motion pictures. ...

• Anthony Adverse (1936) (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937) (Best Picture in 1937)
• Sons of Liberty (1939)
• Juarez (1939)
• The Mark of Zorro (1940)
• The Letter (1940)
• The Black Cat (1941)
• A Night to Remember (1943)
• The Spider Woman (1944)
• Anna and the King of Siam (1946) (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress)
• Road to Rio (1947)
• East Side, West Side (1949)
• Savage Intruder (1968)
• Slaves (1969)
• Visions (segment called "Pleasantville") (1976)
• The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
• Echoes (1983)

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External links

• Gale Sondergaard at the Internet Movie Database
• Gale Sondergaard at the Internet Broadway Database