Sara Allgood

Acting

Sara Allgood

Born — Died

1879-11-28 — 1950-09-13

Place of birth

Dublin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [now Dublin, Republic of Ireland]

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 fil…

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 28 titles

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster
6.5

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.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1941

How Green Was My Valley poster
7.3

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

How Green Was My Valley

1941

That Hamilton Woman poster
7.1

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.

That Hamilton Woman

1941

Cluny Brown poster
7.2

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

Cluny Brown

1946

The Spiral Staircase poster
7.0

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

The Spiral Staircase

1946

Jane Eyre poster
6.9

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Jane Eyre

1943

The Accused poster
6.1

When college student Bill Perry grows inappropriately fond of psychology professor Wilma Tuttle and tries to rape her, her self-defense inadvertently kills him. Wilma then moves Bill's corpse to a nearby beach and makes his death look like the result of a cliff diving accident. But her guilt over the incident builds, and Lt. Ted Dorgan begins to suspect that Wilma knows more than she's letting on.

The Accused

1949

The Lodger poster
6.5

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

The Lodger

1944

The Keys of the Kingdom poster
7.1

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.

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944

One Touch of Venus poster
6.7

A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.

One Touch of Venus

1948

Between Two Worlds poster
7.2

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.

Between Two Worlds

1944

Mourning Becomes Electra poster
6.3

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.

Mourning Becomes Electra

1947

Ivy poster
6.6

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.

Ivy

1947

This Above All poster
6.8

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.

This Above All

1942

Roxie Hart poster
7.0

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.

Roxie Hart

1942

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty poster
6.7

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.

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

1942

Mother Wore Tights poster
5.7

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.

Mother Wore Tights

1947

My Wild Irish Rose poster
6.0

Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.

My Wild Irish Rose

1947

City Without Men poster
5.7

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.

City Without Men

1943

Kitty poster
5.7

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.

Kitty

1945

The Girl from Manhattan poster
6.3

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.

The Girl from Manhattan

1948

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry poster
6.2

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.

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945

Lydia poster
6.5

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.

Lydia

1941

The Fabulous Dorseys poster
5.8

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.

The Fabulous Dorseys

1947

The War Against Mrs. Hadley poster
5.2

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.

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

1942

The Man from Texas poster
8.0

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.

The Man from Texas

1948

It Happened in Flatbush poster
5.4

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.

It Happened in Flatbush

1942

Challenge to Lassie poster
6.0

When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

Challenge to Lassie

1949

1930s · 15 titles

Storm in a Teacup poster
7.4

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.

Storm in a Teacup

1937

Juno and the Paycock poster
4.6

In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.

Juno and the Paycock

1930

Peg of Old Drury poster
6.8

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.

Peg of Old Drury

1935

The Passing of the Third Floor Back poster
7.8

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

1935

It's Love Again poster
6.5

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.

It's Love Again

1936

Riders to the Sea poster
10.0

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.

Riders to the Sea

1935

Crime Unlimited poster
6.0

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.

Crime Unlimited

1935

Lazybones poster
7.2

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.

Lazybones

1935

On the Night of the Fire poster
5.4

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

On the Night of the Fire

1939

No artwork available
8.0

A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

1932

Kathleen Mavourneen poster
8.0

Kathleen O'Moore returns to her home in rural Ireland and becomes torn between the affections of Michael Rooney, a poor but honest man, and the wealthy squire with the power to make her dreams come true.

Kathleen Mavourneen

1937

No artwork available
10.0

Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.

The Sky’s the Limit

1937

The Fortunate Fool poster
5.8

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.

The Fortunate Fool

1933

No artwork available
6.0

Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.

Lily of Killarney

1934

Southern Roses poster
10.0

A musical comedy of false identities.

Southern Roses

1936