Sara Allgood

Sara Allgood

Born: November 28, 1879
Died: September 13, 1950
in Dublin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [now Dublin, Republic of Ireland]
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Sara Ellen Allgood (29 November 1879 – 13 September 1950) was an Irish actress who held both Irish and American citizenship. She first studied drama with the Irish nationalist Daughters of Ireland and was in the opening of the Irish National Theatre Society.

In 1904, she had her first big role in Spreading the News and was a full-time actress the following year. In 1915, she toured Australia and New Zealand as the lead in Peg o' My Heart. Her acting career continued in Dublin, London, and the U.S. She appeared in a number of films, most notably being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Beth Morgan in the 1941 film How Green Was My Valley. She became an American citizen in 1945 and died of a heart attack in 1950.

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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Mrs. Jonas
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Title: Cheaper by the Dozen
Character: Mrs. Monahan
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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Challenge to Lassie
Title: Challenge to Lassie
Character: Mrs. MacFarland
Released: October 31, 1949
Type: Movie
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
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The Accused
Title: The Accused
Character: Mrs. Conner
Released: January 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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The Girl from Manhattan
Title: The Girl from Manhattan
Character: Mrs. Beeler
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
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One Touch of Venus
Title: One Touch of Venus
Character: Landlady
Released: August 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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The Man from Texas
Title: The Man from Texas
Character: Aunt Belle
Released: March 6, 1948
Type: Movie
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.
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My Wild Irish Rose
Title: My Wild Irish Rose
Character: Mrs. Brennan
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Landlady
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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Mother Wore Tights
Title: Mother Wore Tights
Character: Grandmother McKinley
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
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Ivy
Title: Ivy
Character: Martha Huntley
Released: June 26, 1947
Type: Movie
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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The Fabulous Dorseys
Title: The Fabulous Dorseys
Character: Mrs. Dorsey
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
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Cluny Brown
Title: Cluny Brown
Character: Mrs. Maile
Released: June 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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The Spiral Staircase
Title: The Spiral Staircase
Character: Nurse Barker
Released: February 6, 1946
Type: Movie
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Old Meg
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Title: The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Character: Nona
Released: August 17, 1945
Type: Movie
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
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The Keys of the Kingdom
Title: The Keys of the Kingdom
Character: Sister Martha
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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Between Two Worlds
Title: Between Two Worlds
Character: Mrs. Midget
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
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The Lodger
Title: The Lodger
Character: Ellen Bonting
Released: January 19, 1944
Type: Movie
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Bessie
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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City Without Men
Title: City Without Men
Character: Mrs. Maria Barton
Released: January 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Title: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Character: Alma Lothian, Robert's Aunt
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Title: The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Character: Mrs. Michael Fitzpatrick
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: Mrs. 'Mac' McAvoy
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Waitress
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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Roxie Hart
Title: Roxie Hart
Character: Mrs. Morton
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Beth Morgan
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Lydia
Title: Lydia
Character: Mary
Released: September 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Released: August 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
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That Hamilton Woman
Title: That Hamilton Woman
Character: Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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On The Night Of The Fire
Title: On The Night Of The Fire
Character: Bridget O'Brien
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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Storm in a Teacup
Title: Storm in a Teacup
Character: Honoria Hegarty
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Title: Kathleen Mavourneen
Character: Mary Ellen O'Dwyer
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections
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The Sky’s the Limit
Title: The Sky’s the Limit
Character: Mrs O'Reilly
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
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It's Love Again
Title: It's Love Again
Character: Mrs. Hopkins
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Title: The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Character: Mrs. de Hooley
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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Peg of Old Drury
Title: Peg of Old Drury
Character: Irish Woman on Boat (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1935
Type: Movie
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Crime Unlimited
Title: Crime Unlimited
Character: Jewel Thief
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
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Lazybones
Title: Lazybones
Character: Bridget
Released: June 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
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Riders to the Sea
Title: Riders to the Sea
Character: Maurya
Released: May 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this story of Western Ireland, the most famous work of Irelands greatest dramatist JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE is brought to the screen by Ulsters greatest film director BRIAN DESMOND HURST.
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Lily of Killarney
Title: Lily of Killarney
Character: Mrs O'Connor
Released: January 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.
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The Fortunate Fool
Title: The Fortunate Fool
Character: Rose
Released: December 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her luck.
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Title: The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Character: Emme Stanger
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
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Juno and the Paycock
Title: Juno and the Paycock
Character: Mrs Boyle, "Juno"
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Mrs. White
Released: July 28, 1929
Type: Movie
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.