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Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

Actor · 1879–1967 · Palmyra, Missouri, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Darwell was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Darwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acted in 181

1980s

  1. 1986

    Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2

    (archive footage)

1950s

  1. 1959

    Hound-Dog Man

    Grandma Wilson

  2. 1958

    The Last Hurrah

    Delia

  3. 1957
  4. Three Men on a Horse

    Lady on Bus

  5. The Greer Case

    Annie Jackson

  6. 1956

    Sincerely, Willis Wade

    Mrs. Jacoby

  7. Girls in Prison

    Matron Jamieson

  8. There's Always Tomorrow

    Mme Rogers

  9. 1955
  10. 1954
  11. 1953
  12. Affair with a Stranger

    Ma Stanton

  13. It Happens Every Thursday

    Mrs. Spatch

  14. 1952
  15. 1951

    Journey Into Light

    Mack

  16. Excuse My Dust

    Mrs. Belden

  17. The Lemon Drop Kid

    'Nellie Thursday' Regan

  18. 1950

    Father's Wild Game

    Minerva Bobbin

  19. The Second Face

    Mrs. Lockridge

  20. Three Husbands

    Mrs. Wurdeman

  21. Redwood Forest Trail

    Hattie Hickory

  22. Surrender

    Molly Hale

  23. The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

    Mrs. Murphy

  24. Wagon Master

    Sister Ledyard

1940s

  1. 1949

    Red Canyon

    Aunt Jane

  2. 1948
  3. 1947
  4. Keeper of the Bees

    Mrs. Ferris

  5. 1946
  6. Three Wise Fools

    Sister Mary Brigid

  7. The Dark Horse

    Aunt Hattie

  8. 1945

    Captain Tugboat Annie

    Tugboat Annie

  9. I Live in Grosvenor Square

    Mrs. Patterson

  10. 1944

    She's a Sweetheart

    Mom

  11. Music in Manhattan

    Mrs. Pearson

  12. The Impatient Years

    Minister's wife

  13. Reckless Age

    Mrs. Connors

  14. Tender Comrade

    Mrs. Henderson

  15. 1943

    Government Girl

    Miss Trask (uncredited)

  16. Gildersleeve's Bad Day

    Aunt Emma Forrester

  17. The Ox-Bow Incident

    Ma Grier

  18. 1942

    The Great Gildersleeve

    Aunt Emma Forrester

  19. Highways by Night

    Grandma Fogarty

  20. The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

    Mariah Clemm

  21. Men of Texas

    Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie

  22. It Happened in Flatbush

    Mrs. Maguire

  23. On the Sunny Side

    Annie

  24. Young America

    Grandmother Nora Campbell

  25. 1941

    Small Town Deb

    Katie

  26. All That Money Can Buy

    Ma Stone

  27. Private Nurse

    Miss Adams

  28. Thieves Fall Out

    Grandma Allen

  29. 1940

    Chad Hanna

    Mrs. Bettina Huguenine

  30. Youth Will Be Served

    Supervisor Stormer

  31. Brigham Young

    Eliza Kent

  32. Untamed

    Mrs. Maggie Moriarty

1930s

  1. 1939

    Miracle on Main Street

    Mrs. Herman

  2. 20,000 Men a Year

    Mrs. Allen

  3. Grand Jury Secrets

    Mrs. Keefe

  4. Unexpected Father

    Mrs. Callahan

  5. The Zero Hour

    Sophie

  6. Inside Story

    Aunt Mary Perkins

  7. 1938

    Up the River

    Mrs. Graham

  8. Five of a Kind

    Nurse Waldron

  9. Time Out for Murder

    Polly, Helen's supervisor

  10. Three Blind Mice

    Mrs. Kilian

  11. Battle of Broadway

    Mrs. Rogers

  12. The Jury's Secret

    Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother

  13. Change of Heart

    Mrs. Thompson

  14. 1937

    Dangerously Yours

    Aunt Cynthia Barton

  15. Wife, Doctor and Nurse

    Mrs. Krueger

  16. The Singing Marine

    Ma Marine

  17. Slave Ship

    Mrs. Marlowe

  18. Fifty Roads to Town

    Mrs. Henry

  19. The Great Hospital Mystery

    Nurse Sarah Keats

  20. Lest We Forget

    Archive Footage

  21. Nancy Steele Is Missing!

    Mrs. Mary Flaherty

  22. 1936

    Laughing at Trouble

    Glory Bradford

  23. Craig's Wife

    Mrs. Harold

  24. Star for a Night

    Mrs. Martha Lind

  25. Poor Little Rich Girl

    Woodward

  26. White Fang

    Maud Mahoney

  27. Little Miss Nobody

    Eva Bradley

  28. Private Number

    Mrs. Frisby

  29. Captain January

    Eliza Croft

  30. The First Baby

    Mrs. Ellis

  31. The Country Doctor

    Mrs. Graham

  32. Paddy O'Day

    Dora

  33. 1935

    We're Only Human

    Mrs. Walsh

  34. Metropolitan

    Grandma

  35. Navy Wife

    Mrs. Louise Keats

  36. Wig-Wag

    Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother

  37. Life Begins at Forty

    Ida Harris

  38. McFadden´s Flats

    Nora McFadden

  39. One More Spring

    Mary Sweeney

  40. The Gilded Lily

    Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)

  41. 1934
  42. Gentlemen Are Born

    Landlady

  43. The White Parade

    Sailor

  44. Happiness Ahead

    Mrs. Davis - The Landlady

  45. Tomorrow's Youth

    Mary O'Brien

  46. Desirable

    Frederick's Mother

  47. Million Dollar Ransom

    Ma McGarry (Uncredited)

  48. Blind Date

    Ma Taylor

  49. One Night of Love

    Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother

  50. Most Precious Thing in Life

    Mrs. O'Day

  51. Let's Talk It Over

    Mrs. O'Keefe

  52. Change of Heart

    Mrs. McGowan

  53. Once to Every Woman

    Mrs. Wood (uncredited)

  54. Journal of a Crime

    Dinner Guest (uncredited)

  55. David Harum

    Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)

  56. Heat Lightning

    Gladys

  57. Fashions of 1934

    Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)

  58. Cross Country Cruise

    Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)

  59. 1933

    Design for Living

    Curtis' Housekeeper

  60. He Couldn't Take It

    Mrs. Case

  61. King for a Night

    Mrs. Williams

  62. Only Yesterday

    Mrs. Lane

  63. Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

    Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)

  64. Ann Vickers

    Mrs. Gage (uncredited)

  65. One Sunday Afternoon

    Mrs. Lind

  66. Before Dawn

    Mrs. Marble

  67. Bed of Roses

    Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)

  68. Emergency Call

    Nurse Brown (uncredited)

  69. Jennie Gerhardt

    Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

  70. The Girl in 419

    Nurse Esmond

  71. Bondage

    Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton

  72. Child of Manhattan

    Mrs. McGonagle

  73. The Past of Mary Holmes

    Movie

  74. 1932

    Women Won't Tell

    Mrs. Walter Robinson

  75. Hot Saturday

    Mrs. Brock

  76. Washington Merry-Go-Round

    Alice's Aunt

  77. Back Street

    Mrs. Adolph Schmidt

  78. Young America

    School Teacher (Uncredited)

  79. 1931

    Ladies of the Big House

    Mrs. Turner

  80. Huckleberry Finn

    Widow Douglas

  81. 1930

1920s

  1. 1923

    Little Church Around the Corner

    Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)

  2. 1920

    The Restless Sex

    Housekeeper (uncredited)

1910s

  1. 1915

    The Rug Maker's Daughter

    Mrs. Van Buren

  2. After Five

    Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy

  3. The Goose Girl

    Irma

  4. Hypocrites

    Madam (uncredited)

  5. 1914

    The Rose of the Rancho

    Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother

  6. Ready Money

    Mrs. Tyler

  7. The Only Son

    Mrs. Brainerd

  8. The Master Mind

    Milwaukee Sadie

  9. Brewster's Millions

    Mrs. Dan De Mille

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