GALE SONDERGAARD

Gale Sondergaard was an actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of her movies include: Centennial, The Time of Their Lives, Anthony Adverse (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and The Letter. She might have had one of the most memorable roles of all time! She was cast as the "Wicked Witch of the West" in 1939's "Wizard of Oz", but she was going to be a "beautiful" witch (similar to Glinda, the Good Witch), but at the last minute, MGM decided to make her "ugly", and she refused, and she dropped out days before filming began, and Margaret Hamilton was cast instead. She passed away in 1985 at the age of 86.