Cast: Gale Sondergaard

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gale Sondergaard. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Letter

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Herbert Marshall · James Stephenson · Frieda Inescort

Synopsis The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearly everyone who meets her. Her husband is certainly without doubt; so is the district officer; while...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

The Life of Emile Zola

1937 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Henry O'Neill · Joseph Schildkraut · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. Paul Cezanne and Émile Zola were friends when both were starting their careers. Through ups and downs Zola became financially successful...

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7.1

880 votes

7.1

880 votes

The Mark of Zorro

1940 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis In Madrid, the talented aristocratic military swordsman and rider Diego Vega returns to the Mexican California to reunite with his father, the Alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, and his mother. When he arrives in Los Angeles, he finds that his father...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Seventh Heaven

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast James Stewart · Simone Simon · Jean Hersholt · Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis A Parisian sewer worker (James Stewart) longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl (Simone Simon) from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away...

6.8

428 votes

6.8

428 votes

East Side, West Side

1949 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

6.8

324 votes

6.8

324 votes

Juarez

1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Brian Aherne · Claude Rains

Synopsis The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw...

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

Anna and the King of Siam

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis ad feedbackIn 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects Anna for standing up to him, though this appalls his...

6.4

549 votes

6.4

549 votes

Christmas Holiday

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Deanna Durbin · Gene Kelly · Richard Whorf · Dean Harens

Synopsis Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of...

6.2

258 votes

6.2

258 votes

The Spider Woman

1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gale Sondergaard · Dennis Hoey

Synopsis Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian military man with a paralyzed arm. After...

6.2

432 votes

6.2

432 votes

The Black Cat

1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Basil Rathbone · Hugh Herbert · Broderick Crawford · Bela Lugosi

Synopsis Greedy heirs gather to wait for the death of Henrietta Winslow. Murder, thunder claps, howling cats, gun shots, screams in the night, hidden passages -- all the proper ingredients.

6.1

129 votes

6.1

129 votes

The Cat and the Canary

1939 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bob Hope · Paulette Goddard · John Beal · Douglass Montgomery

Synopsis Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the will". To the others disappointment, Joyce is the sole heir,...

6.0

76 votes

6.0

76 votes

5.9

73 votes

The Return of a Man Called Horse

1976 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Irvin Kershner

Cast Richard Harris · Gale Sondergaard · Geoffrey Lewis · William Lucking

Synopsis The English gentleman known as Horse, returns to the American west to save his adopted Indian tribe from extinction. In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land; they retreat into an apocalyptic...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

The Blue Bird

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Shirley Temple · Spring Byington · Nigel Bruce · Eddie Collins

Synopsis A poignant story of a selfish young German girl's search for happiness, Blue Bird is a classic Shirley Temple film with a storybook Hansel and Gretel feel. This restored and remastered 1940 film opens with a purposely grainy, black and...

5.8

102 votes

5.8

102 votes

Anthony Adverse

1936 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Fredric March · Olivia de Havilland · Donald Woods · Anita Louise

Synopsis In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. However, she is in love with another, younger man. When the husband finds out, he kills the lover in a swordfight,...

5.8

132 votes

5.8

132 votes

The Time of Their Lives

1946 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marjorie Reynolds · Binnie Barnes

Synopsis Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.

5.6

28 votes

5.6

28 votes

The Climax

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Boris Karloff · Susanna Foster · Turhan Bey · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis Dr. Hohner (Karloff), theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer (Foster) reminds Hohner of the late diva,...

5.4

94 votes

5.4

94 votes

Road to Rio

1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Bing Crosby · Dorothy Lamour · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia,...

5.4

92 votes

5.4

92 votes

The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Ford Beebe

Cast Jon Hall · Leon Errol · John Carradine · Alan Curtis

Synopsis An eager scientist (John Carradine) tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive (Jon Hall). When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier.

5.3

69 votes

5.3

69 votes

The Cat Creature (TV)

1973 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Harrington

Cast Meredith Baxter · David Hedison · Gale Sondergaard · John Carradine

Synopsis When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which...

5.2

27 votes

5.2

27 votes