List of the best Sara Allgood movies: Juno and the Paycock(1930), Lazybones(1935), City Without Men(1943), That Hamilton Woman(1941), Storm in a Teacup(1937), Uncle Harry(1945), The Lodger(1944), Blackmail(1929), The War Against Mrs. Hadley(1942), Jane Eyre(1944), The Fabulous Dorseys(1947), Between Two Worlds(1944) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
UK
1930
95 Minutes
Mrs. Boyle
Edward Chapman Sara Allgood Maire O'Neil Sidney Morgan John Longden Kathleen O'Regan John Laurie Donald Calthrop Dave Morris Fred Schwartz Dennis Wyndham
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
Comedy
UK
1935
65 Minutes
Bridget
Claire Luce Ian Hunter Sara Allgood Bernard Nedell Michael Shepley Bobbie Comber Denys Blakelock Mary Gaskell Pamela Carne Harold Warrender
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 ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1943
75 Minutes
Mrs. Maria Barton
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.
Drama, History
USA
1941
128 Minutes
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Vivien Leigh Laurence Olivier Alan Mowbray Sara Allgood Gladys Cooper Henry Wilcoxon Heather Angel Halliwell Hobbes Gilbert Emery Miles Mander Ronald Sinclair
ambassador lady admiral captain lord king witty sultry touching melodramatic france italy england prison adultery war love loss courage adventure
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.
Comedy
UK
1937
87 Minutes
Honoria Hegarty
Vivien Leigh Ian Dalrymple Rex Harrison Cecil Parker Sara Allgood Ursula Jeans Gus McNaughton Arthur Wontner Edgar K. Bruce Robert Hale Eliot Makeham
journalist politician daughter woman dog cheery charming scotland small town court journalism unlikely romance reputation scandal trial pets rivalry love 1930s
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.
Mystery & Thriller
1945
80 Minutes
Nona
George Sanders Geraldine Fitzgerald Ella Raines Sara Allgood Moyna Magill Samuel S. Hinds Harry von Zell Judy Clark
Mad Harry (George Sanders) poisons his bad sister's (Geraldine Fitzgerald) cocoa; his good sister drinks it.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
84 Minutes
Ellen Bonting
Merle Oberon George Sanders Laird Cregar Cedric Hardwicke Sara Allgood Aubrey Mather Queenie Leonard Doris Lloyd David Clyde Helena Pickard Lumsden Hare
serial killer inspector singer maid lodger chilling suspenseful disturbing london attic music hall hospital serial murders mystery investigation unusual behavior jack the ripper mystery discovery pursuit
A landlady suspects her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1929
86 Minutes
Mrs. White
Anny Ondra John Longden Donald Calthrop Cyril Ritchard Sara Allgood Charles Paton Harvey Braban Phyllis Monkman Hannah Jones Percy Parsons Johnny Butt
girlfriend detective artist thief eerie suspenseful england artist's studio british museum blackmail self-defense murder pursuit discovery 1920s
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
Drama
USA
1942
86 Minutes
Mrs. Michael Fitzpatrick
Edward Arnold Fay Bainter Richard Ney Jean Rogers Sara Allgood Spring Byington Van Johnson Isobel Elsom Frances Rafferty Dorothy Morris Halliwell Hobbes
wealthy woman romantic interest son daughter best friend mother spirited emotional city household office hospital military base home front snobbishness draft family class distinctions world war ii transformation
A Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Bessie
Joan Fontaine Orson Welles Margaret O'Brien Peggy Ann Garner John Sutton Sara Allgood Henry Daniell Agnes Moorehead Aubrey Mather Edith Barrett Barbara Everest
governess pretty woman aristocrat housekeeper maid young girl emotional melodramatic dark england countryside estate yorkshire moors forbidden love romance may-december romance poverty class distinctions forbidden love love
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.
Musical
USA
1947
88 Minutes
Mrs. Dorsey
Janet Blair William Lundigan Sara Allgood Arthur Shields James Flavin William Bakewell Dave Willock Bobby Warde Ann Carter Tom Dugan Jackie Searle
musician brother singer pianist father mother uplifting cheery pennsylvania small town radio station casino concert hall jazz sibling rivalry marriage reconciliation tommy dorsey song and dance love
The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From ... See full summary »
Fantasy
1944
112 Minutes
Mrs. Midget
John Garfield Paul Henreid Eleanor Parker Sydney Greenstreet Faye Emerson Sara Allgood Isobel Elsom George Tobias Edmund Gwenn
pianist wife steward reporter reverend sailor bleak dreamy emotional london apartment limbo ship world war ii air raids death suicide judgment supernatural discovery
A ship sails on with a cynical newsman (John Garfield), a suicidal couple (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker) and others who are dead but don't know it.
Musical, Comedy
1936
83 Minutes
Mrs. Hopkins
Jessie Matthews Robert Young Sonnie Hale Ernest Milton Rob Wilton Sara Allgood
gossip columnist chorus girl social climber society matron lady lighthearted witty london party restaurant newsroom deception impersonation fame high society romance transformation love 1930s
A gossip columnist (Jessie Matthews) poses as her rival's (Robert Young) latest creation, a supposed tiger hunter from India.
Drama
USA
1941
118 Minutes
Mrs. Beth Morgan
Walter Pidgeon Maureen O'Hara Roddy McDowall Donald Crisp Anna Lee John Loder Sara Allgood Barry Fitzgerald Patric Knowles Rhys Williams Evan S. Evans
father mother brother sister coal miner preacher emotional melodramatic wales small town family coal mining labor strike love triangle growing up quest forbidden love victorian era
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Musical
USA
1947
101 Minutes
Mrs. Brennan
Dennis Morgan Arlene Dahl Andrea King Alan Hale George Tobias George O'Brien Sara Allgood Ben Blue William Frawley Don McGuire Charles Irwin
broadway star singer-songwriter girlfriend singer cheery endearing inspiring new york city dinner party broadway theater rise to stardom fame songwriting singing relationships chancellor "chauncey" olcott pursuit love underdog transformation
The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his... See full summary »
Western
USA
1947
71 Minutes
Aunt Belle
James Craig Lynn Bari Johnnie Johnston Una Merkel Wallace Ford Harry Davenport Sara Allgood Victor Cutler Reed Hadley Clancy Cooper Bert Conway
Tobias Simms (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 (Lynn ... See full summary »
Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1950
85 Minutes
Mrs. Monahan
Clifton Webb Myrna Loy Jeanne Crain Betty Lynn Edgar Buchanan Barbara Bates Mildred Natwick Sara Allgood Anthony Sydes Roddy McCaskill Norman Ollestad
father mother daughter son doctor heartwarming lighthearted rhode island new jersey household family parenthood siblings marriage daunting task efficiency love growing up 1940s
"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 ... See full summary »
War
USA
1942
110 Minutes
Waitress
Tyrone Power Joan Fontaine Thomas Mitchell Henry Stephenson Nigel Bruce Gladys Cooper Philip Merivale Sara Allgood Alexander Knox Queenie Leonard Melville Cooper
aristocratic lady soldier aunt best friend hotel owner father intense patriotic moving england manor military base village dover hotel desertion patriotism class distinctions english society romance
Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.
Horror
USA
1941
114 Minutes
Mrs. Higgins
Spencer Tracy Ingrid Bergman Lana Turner Donald Crisp Ian Hunter Barton MacLane C. Aubrey Smith Sara Allgood Peter Godfrey Frederick Worlock William Tannen
dr. jekyll mr. hyde mistress brooding gripping suspenseful london laboratory split personality human nature experiments evil metamorphosis mystery 1880s
Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
101 Minutes
Mrs. Conner
Loretta Young Bob Cummings Wendell Corey Sam Jaffe Douglas Dick Suzanne Dalbert George Spaulding Sara Allgood Mickey Knox Francis Pierlot Ann Doran
professor truck driver lawyer detective beautiful woman student dark gripping eerie suspenseful college courtroom beach cliff classroom psychology attempted rape investigation cover-up unlikely criminal
A beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self-defense killing.
Romance
USA
1941
104 Minutes
Mary
Merle Oberon Joseph Cotten Alan Marshall Edna May Oliver Hans Jaray George Reeves John Halliday Sara Allgood Billy Ray Frank Conlan
elderly woman lover suitor recluse old flame melodramatic moving tender boston charity event new york city regret memory reunion unrequited love romance the past love mystery discovery
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, is invited by an old beau, Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, for a reunion with the men who have been in her life to reminisce about the ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
1948
81 Minutes
Mrs. Fogarty
Robert Walker Ava Gardner Dick Haymes Eve Arden Olga San Juan Tom Conway James Flavin Sara Allgood
A window dresser's (Robert Walker) kiss brings a statue (Ava Gardner) of the Roman goddess of love to life.
Drama
USA
1947
173 Minutes
Landlady
Rosalind Russell Michael Redgrave Raymond Massey Katina Paxinou Leo Genn Kirk Douglas Nancy Coleman Henry Hull Sara Allgood Thurston Hall Walter Baldwin
Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.
Comedy
USA
1946
100 Minutes
Mrs. Maile
Charles Boyer Jennifer Jones Peter Lawford Helen Walker Reginald Gardiner Reginald Owen C. Aubrey Smith Richard Haydn Margaret Bannerman Sara Allgood Ernest Cossart
young woman plumber uncle father chemist refugee charming emotional witty england manor village london new york city world war ii love triangle class distinctions father/son relationship marriage jealousy
A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.
Drama
UK
1936
79 Minutes
Mrs. de Hooley
Conrad Veidt Rene Ray Frank Cellier Anna Lee John Turnbull Cathleen Nesbitt Ronald Ward Beatrix Lehmann Jack Livesey Sara Allgood Mary Clare
The tenants of an old boarding house are terrorized by an evil slumlord. One day a strange man arrives at the house and begins to help them with their problems.
Western
1950
83 Minutes
Wanda Hendrix Audie Murphy Dean Jagger Burl Ives Richard Rober Tony Curtis Houseley Stevenson Elliott Reid Griff Barnett Elisabeth Risdon Roy Roberts
father son murder suspect lawyer engaging gripping spirited suspenseful wild west mountain wrongful conviction innocence murder case outlaws race against time adventure discovery quest unknown era
A tomboy frontier lawyer (Wanda Hendrix) finds an outlaw (Dean Jagger) and his son (Audie Murphy) hiding out from a false charge of murder.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
83 Minutes
Dorothy McGuire George Brent Forrest Tucker Ethel Barrymore Kent Smith Rhonda Fleming Gordon Oliver Elsa Lanchester James Bell Charles Wagenheim Ellen Corby
serial killer mute person servant nurse chilling suspenseful mansion murder disability alcoholism insanity investigation mystery pursuit 1910s
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.