Gale Sondergaard

Biberman died in 1971, and Sondergaard made a few more film and television appearances, before dying from cerebral vascular thrombosis at Woodland Hills, California. The couple live in Manhattan. 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 has been married to talk show host Phil Donahue since 1980. With her career stalled, she supported her husband during the production of Salt of the Earth (1954). Thomas is the recipient of four Emmy Awards. 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. She also appeared in the 2002 film Playing Mona Lisa with Julia Roberts.

Married to the film director Herbert J. In recent years, Thomas has appeared in guest shots on Ally McBeal, Friends (as Rachel's mother), and Law & Order: SVU. She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946. Started by her father, the organization helps children suffering from grave forms of cancer. In 1940 she played a role which would become one of her most identifiable, as the exotic and sinister wife in The Letter. Jude Children's Research Hospital. 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. She is donating all royalties from her 2004 book and CD, Thanks & Giving All Year Long, to the St.

Walt Disney Studios used her as the main inspiration for the Wicked Queen in the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). A Family (1987), which were born out of an attempt to teach her then-young niece Dionne about life. Her career as a supporting actress flourished during the 1930s. You and Me (1974) and Free to Be . 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. She is also known for her children's books and the recordings and television specials created in conjunction with them - Free to Be . Born Edith Holm Sondergaard in Litchfield, Minnesota to Danish parents, Sondergaard began her acting career in the theater. Anxious to show she was as adept at drama as she was at comedy, she proved herself in the television movies It Happened One Christmas (a remake of It's a Wonderful Life, with Thomas in the rewritten James Stewart role), Nobody's Child, and The Lost Honor Of Kathryn Beck, while she starred in Jenny (1970) and Thieves (1977) on the big screen.