Sara Allgood

Sara Allgood

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 film How Green Was My Valley. She became an American citizen in 1945 and died of a heart attack in 1950.

  • Title: Sara Allgood
  • Popularity: 0.6638
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1879-11-28
  • Place of Birth: Dublin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [now Dublin, Republic of Ireland]
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  • Also Known As: Sara Ellen Allgood, Sarah Allgood
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Sara Allgood Movies

  • 1929
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    6.5 1929 HD

    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.

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  • 1941
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    6.495 1941 HD

    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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  • 1943
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    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    6.9 1943 HD

    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 meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. 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 Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

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  • 1946
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    The Spiral Staircase

    The Spiral Staircase

    7.1 1946 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Between Two Worlds

    Between Two Worlds

    7.068 1944 HD

    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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  • 1944
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    The Lodger

    The Lodger

    6.468 1944 HD

    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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  • 1941
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    How Green Was My Valley

    How Green Was My Valley

    7.3 1941 HD

    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.

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  • 1945
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    The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

    The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

    6.218 1945 HD

    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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  • 1947
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    The Fabulous Dorseys

    The Fabulous Dorseys

    6 1947 HD

    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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  • 1941
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    That Hamilton Woman

    That Hamilton Woman

    7.105 1941 HD

    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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  • 1947
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    Ivy

    Ivy

    6.6 1947 HD

    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.

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  • 1949
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    Challenge to Lassie

    Challenge to Lassie

    4.8 1949 HD

    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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  • 1930
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    Juno and the Paycock

    Juno and the Paycock

    4.6 1930 HD

    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.

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  • 1944
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    The Keys of the Kingdom

    The Keys of the Kingdom

    7 1944 HD

    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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  • 1946
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    Cluny Brown

    Cluny Brown

    7.2 1946 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    Lydia

    Lydia

    6.5 1941 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    Storm in a Teacup

    Storm in a Teacup

    7.466 1937 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    Roxie Hart

    Roxie Hart

    6.9 1942 HD

    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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  • 1936
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    It's Love Again

    It's Love Again

    5.9 1936 HD

    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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  • 1947
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    Mother Wore Tights

    Mother Wore Tights

    5.3 1947 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    This Above All

    This Above All

    6.7 1942 HD

    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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  • 1950
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    Sierra

    Sierra

    5.3 1950 HD

    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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  • 1948
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    The Man from Texas

    The Man from Texas

    6 1948 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

    Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

    6.5 1942 HD

    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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  • 1950
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    Cheaper by the Dozen

    Cheaper by the Dozen

    6.3 1950 HD

    "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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  • 1947
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    My Wild Irish Rose

    My Wild Irish Rose

    6 1947 HD

    Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.

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  • 1943
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    City Without Men

    City Without Men

    5 1943 HD

    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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  • 1949
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    The Accused

    The Accused

    6.063 1949 HD

    A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

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  • 1935
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    Crime Unlimited

    Crime Unlimited

    5.8 1935 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    Lazybones

    Lazybones

    6.3 1935 HD

    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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  • 1939
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    On the Night of the Fire

    On the Night of the Fire

    5.2 1939 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    Riders to the Sea

    Riders to the Sea

    1 1935 HD

    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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  • 1935
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    The Passing of the Third Floor Back

    The Passing of the Third Floor Back

    7.6 1935 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    Kathleen Mavourneen

    Kathleen Mavourneen

    7 1937 HD

    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.

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  • 1933
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    The Fortunate Fool

    The Fortunate Fool

    4.333 1933 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    It Happened in Flatbush

    It Happened in Flatbush

    4.8 1942 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    The Sky’s the Limit

    The Sky’s the Limit

    1 1937 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    The War Against Mrs. Hadley

    The War Against Mrs. Hadley

    5 1942 HD

    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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  • 1948
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    One Touch of Venus

    One Touch of Venus

    6.7 1948 HD

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

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  • 1934
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    Lily of Killarney

    Lily of Killarney

    4 1934 HD

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

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  • 1947
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    Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Becomes Electra

    6.05 1947 HD

    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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  • 1932
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    The World, the Flesh and the Devil

    The World, the Flesh and the Devil

    1 1932 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    Peg of Old Drury

    Peg of Old Drury

    6.3 1935 HD

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

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  • 1945
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    Kitty

    Kitty

    5.5 1945 HD

    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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  • 1948
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    The Girl from Manhattan

    The Girl from Manhattan

    5 1948 HD

    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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  • 1936
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    Southern Roses

    Southern Roses

    1 1936 HD

    A musical comedy of false identities.

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  • 1918
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    Just Peggy

    Just Peggy

    1 1918 HD

    A child, abandoned with only a violin, grows up to become an accomplished musician and brings about the reunion of her parents, a hunchbacked conductor and a singer who used to be blind.

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