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Sara Allgood (1879-1950) |
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- Esther Dale, Ten Gentlemen From West Point, 1941. Change of chaperone for Maureen O’Hara when Allgood was "held by another role" - possibly Mrs Merton in Roxie Hart. Both Fox tales featured George Montgomery.
- Gwendolyn Logan, Rings on Her Fingers, 1941. Before going to the India-born Brit, Miss Calahan was set for the veteran Irish actress in director Rouben Mamoulian’s 14th film - “a mediocre exercise,” according to the New York Times.
- Jane Darwell, The Ox-Bow Incident,1942. Director William (Wild Bill) Wellman suddenly changed Ma Grier from Allgood to Florence Bates – and when she was injured in a horse-riding sequence, by Jane Darwell, best remembewred as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath. Both films were Henry Fonda’s favourites during his largely unhappy days at Fox.
- Norma Varden, National Velvet, 1944. Invariably a warm-hearted mums or housekeeper, the Dublin Abbey Theatre star lost Miss Sims to the classical pianist turned actress from London.
- Lillian Randolph, It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946.
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