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Sara Allgood(1880-1950)

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Sara Allgood
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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
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Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to the English stage, where she played for many years before making her film debut in 1918. Her warm, open Irish face meant that she spent a lot of time playing Irish mothers, landladies, neighborhood gossips and the like, although she is best remembered for playing Mrs. Morgan, the mother of a family of Welsh miners, in How Green Was My Valley (1941), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her sister Maire O'Neill was an actress in Ireland, and famed Irish poet William Butler Yeats was a family friend.

Sara Allgood died of a heart attack shortly after making her last film, Sierra (1950).
BornOctober 30, 1880
DiedSeptember 13, 1950(69)
BornOctober 30, 1880
DiedSeptember 13, 1950(69)
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  • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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Sara Allgood and Anny Ondra in Blackmail (1929)
Sara Allgood, Phyllis Monkman, Anny Ondra, and Charles Paton in Blackmail (1929)
Sara Allgood in Jane Eyre (1943)
Sara Allgood and Gerald Oliver Smith in Jane Eyre (1943)
Sara Allgood in Cluny Brown (1946)
Ginger Rogers, Spring Byington, Sara Allgood, Adolphe Menjou, and Ted North in Roxie Hart (1942)
Sara Allgood and Anny Ondra in Blackmail (1929)
Joan Fontaine, Sara Allgood, and Lucile Watson in Ivy (1947)
Spencer Tracy and Sara Allgood in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Sara Allgood, J. Edward Bromberg, Melville Cooper, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, and Monty Woolley in Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
George Sanders, Sara Allgood, Queenie Leonard, Aubrey Mather, and Merle Oberon in The Lodger (1944)
Spring Byington, Iris Adrian, Sara Allgood, and Lynne Overman in Roxie Hart (1942)

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Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, John Loder, Walter Pidgeon, and Evan S. Evans in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
How Green Was My Valley
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  • Mrs. Morgan
  • 1941
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in That Hamilton Woman (1941)
That Hamilton Woman
7.2
  • Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
  • 1941
John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Faye Emerson, and Eleanor Parker in Between Two Worlds (1944)
Between Two Worlds
7.1
  • Mrs. Midget
  • 1944
George Sanders, Laird Cregar, and Merle Oberon in The Lodger (1944)
The Lodger
7.1
  • Ellen Bonting
  • 1944

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Actress

  • Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, and Richard Rober in Sierra (1950)
    Sierra
  • Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Walter Baldwin, Betty Barker, Barbara Bates, Patti Brady, Denise Courtemarche, Teddy Driver, Jimmy Hunt, Roddy McCaskill, Carol Nugent, Norman Ollestad, Anthony Sydes, Clifton Webb, and Judy Ann Whaley in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
    Cheaper by the Dozen
  • Challenge to Lassie (1949)
    Challenge to Lassie
  • Loretta Young in The Accused (1949)
    The Accused
  • Charles Laughton, Dorothy Lamour, and George Montgomery in The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
    The Girl from Manhattan
  • Ava Gardner and Robert Walker in One Touch of Venus (1948)
    One Touch of Venus
  • Lynn Bari, James Craig, and Johnny Johnston in The Man from Texas (1948)
    The Man from Texas
    • (as Sarah Allgood)
  • Dennis Morgan in My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
    My Wild Irish Rose
  • Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
    Mourning Becomes Electra
  • Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, and Connie Marshall in Mother Wore Tights (1947)
    Mother Wore Tights
  • Joan Fontaine and Herbert Marshall in Ivy (1947)
    Ivy
  • Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
    The Fabulous Dorseys
  • Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones in Cluny Brown (1946)
    Cluny Brown
  • Ethel Barrymore, George Brent, and Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946)
    The Spiral Staircase
  • Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, and Patric Knowles in Kitty (1945)
    Kitty

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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre

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    • October 30, 1880
    • Dublin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [now Dublin, Republic of Ireland]
    • September 13, 1950
    • Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(heart attack)
    • Gerald HensonJanuary 13, 1917 - November 18, 1918 (his death, 1 child)
  • Other works
    Active on Broadway in the following productions:
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    • 6 Articles

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    While touring Australia and New Zealand in the acclaimed stage play "Peg o' My Heart", she married her leading man, Gerald Henson, in Melbourne in September of 1916. She gave birth to a daughter who lived only one hour, a victim of the influenza epidemic that raged through Melbourne. Her husband also died of the illness shortly afterward.
    • Played housekeepers and warm hearted motherly roles

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