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Jane Darwell

Born
October 13, 1879
Died
August 13, 1967
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) 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.
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress
Known For
Gone with the Wind
(1939)
Mrs. Merriwether
Mary Poppins
(1964)
Bird Woman
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940)
Ma Joad
3 Godfathers
(1948)
Miss Florie
My Darling Clementine
(1946)
Kate Nelson
The Last Hurrah
(1958)
Delia
Wagon Master
(1950)
Sister Ledyard
Jesse James
(1939)
Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
The Ox-Bow Incident
(1943)
Ma Grier
Caged
(1950)
Isolation Matron
The Sun Shines Bright
(1953)
Aurora Ratchitt
All That Money Can Buy
(1941)
Ma Stone
There's Always Tomorrow
(1956)
Mme Rogers
Before Dawn
(1933)
Mrs. Marble
Finishing School
(1934)
Maude (uncredited)
Heat Lightning
(1934)
Gladys - the Wife
Full Filmography
Acting
The Rose of the Rancho
(1914)
Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother
Ready Money
(1914)
Mrs. Tyler
Hypocrites
(1915)
Madam (uncredited)
The Goose Girl
(1915)
Irma
The Rug Maker's Daughter
(1915)
Mrs. Van Buren
The Restless Sex
(1920)
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Little Church Around the Corner
(1923)
Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)
Tom Sawyer
(1930)
Widow Douglas
Ladies of the Big House
(1931)
Mrs. Turner
Huckleberry Finn
(1931)
Widow Douglas
Women Won't Tell
(1932)
Mrs. Walter Robinson
Washington Merry-Go-Round
(1932)
Alice's Aunt
Back Street
(1932)
Mrs. Adolph Schmidt
Hot Saturday
(1932)
Mrs. Brock
Young America
(1932)
School Teacher (Uncredited)
Ann Vickers
(1933)
Mrs. Gage (uncredited)
Air Hostess
(1933)
Ma Kearny
Design for Living
(1933)
Curtis' Housekeeper
Child of Manhattan
(1933)
Mrs. McGonagle
Before Dawn
(1933)
Mrs. Marble
One Sunday Afternoon
(1933)
Mrs. Lind
Bondage
(1933)
Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton
Only Yesterday
(1933)
Mrs. Lane
Jennie Gerhardt
(1933)
Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)
King for a Night
(1933)
Mrs. Williams
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
(1933)
Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)
He Couldn't Take It
(1933)
Mrs. Case
Roman Scandals
(1933)
Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)
Emergency Call
(1933)
Nurse Brown (uncredited)
The Girl in 419
(1933)
Nurse Esmond
Murders in the Zoo
(1933)
Banquet Guest (uncredited)
The Past of Mary Holmes
(1933)
Bed of Roses
(1933)
Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)
Bright Eyes
(1934)
Mrs. Higgins
The White Parade
(1934)
Sailor
Wonder Bar
(1934)
Baroness (uncredited)
The Scarlet Empress
(1934)
Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)
Cross Country Cruise
(1934)
Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)
Blind Date
(1934)
Ma Taylor
Most Precious Thing in Life
(1934)
Mrs. O'Day
Happiness Ahead
(1934)
Mrs. Davis - The Landlady
Change of Heart
(1934)
Mrs. Mc Gowan
Heat Lightning
(1934)
Gladys - the Wife
Finishing School
(1934)
Maude (uncredited)
Desirable
(1934)
Frederick's Mother
Journal of a Crime
(1934)
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Gentlemen Are Born
(1934)
Landlady
Tomorrow's Youth
(1934)
Mary O'Brien
Once to Every Woman
(1934)
Mrs. Wood
Let's Talk It Over
(1934)
Mrs. O'Keefe
Million Dollar Ransom
(1934)
Ma McGarry (Uncredited)
Embarrassing Moments
(1934)
Mrs. Stuckelberger
David Harum
(1934)
Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)
One Night of Love
(1934)
Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother
Fashions of 1934
(1934)
Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)
Curly Top
(1935)
Mrs. Denham
One More Spring
(1935)
Mary Sweeney
Life Begins at Forty
(1935)
Ida Harris
We're Only Human
(1935)
Mrs. Walsh
Metropolitan
(1935)
Grandma
Navy Wife
(1935)
Mrs. Louise Keats
Wig-Wag
(1935)
Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother
McFadden´s Flats
(1935)
Nora McFadden
Captain January
(1936)
Mrs. Eliza Croft
Craig's Wife
(1936)
Mrs. Harold
Paddy O'Day
(1936)
Dora
Little Miss Nobody
(1936)
Eva Bradley
Private Number
(1936)
Mrs. Frisby
The Country Doctor
(1936)
Mrs. Graham
White Fang
(1936)
Maud Mahoney
Poor Little Rich Girl
(1936)
Woodward
Laughing at Trouble
(1936)
Glory Bradford
Star for a Night
(1936)
Mrs. Martha Lind
The First Baby
(1936)
Mrs. Ellis
Slave Ship
(1937)
Mrs. Marlowe
The Singing Marine
(1937)
Ma Marine
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
(1937)
Mrs. Mary Flaherty
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
(1937)
Mrs. Krueger
The Great Hospital Mystery
(1937)
Nurse Sarah Keats
Dangerously Yours
(1937)
Aunt Cynthia Barton
Love Is News
(1937)
Mrs. Flaherty
Fifty Roads to Town
(1937)
Mrs. Henry
Change of Heart
(1938)
Mrs. Thompson
Time Out for Murder
(1938)
Polly, Helen's supervisor
Five of a Kind
(1938)
Nurse Waldron
Battle Of Broadway
(1938)
Mrs. Rogers
Little Miss Broadway
(1938)
Miss Hutchins
Three Blind Mice
(1938)
Mrs. Kilian
The Jury's Secret
(1938)
Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother
Gone with the Wind
(1939)
Mrs. Merriwether
Jesse James
(1939)
Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
Inside Story
(1939)
Aunt Mary Perkins
The Zero Hour
(1939)
Sophie
The Rains Came
(1939)
Aunt Phoebe Smiley
Miracle on Main Street
(1939)
Mrs. Herman
20,000 Men a Year
(1939)
Mrs. Allen
Unexpected Father
(1939)
Mrs. Callahan
Grand Jury Secrets
(1939)
Mrs. Keefe
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940)
Ma Joad
Brigham Young
(1940)
Eliza Kent
Chad Hanna
(1940)
Mrs. Bettina Huguenine
Untamed
(1940)
Mrs. Maggie Moriarty
Youth Will Be Served
(1940)
Supervisor Stormer
All That Money Can Buy
(1941)
Ma Stone
Thieves Fall Out
(1941)
Grandma Allen
Small Town Deb
(1941)
Katie
Private Nurse
(1941)
Miss Adams
All Through the Night
(1942)
Mrs. Donahue
The Battle of Midway
(1942)
Narrator (voice)
Men of Texas
(1942)
Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie
Highways by Night
(1942)
Grandma Fogarty
The Great Gildersleeve
(1942)
Aunt Emma Forrester
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
(1942)
Mariah Clemm
It Happened in Flatbush
(1942)
Mrs. Maguire
On the Sunny Side
(1942)
Annie
Young America
(1942)
Grandmother Nora Campbell
The Ox-Bow Incident
(1943)
Ma Grier
Government Girl
(1943)
Miss Trask (uncredited)
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
(1943)
Aunt Emma Forrester
Stage Door Canteen
(1943)
Jane Darwell
Family Feud
(1943)
The Mother
She's a Sweetheart
(1944)
Mom
Tender Comrade
(1944)
Mrs. Henderson
The Impatient Years
(1944)
Minister's wife
Music in Manhattan
(1944)
Mrs. Pearson
Reckless Age
(1944)
Mrs. Connors
I Live in Grosvenor Square
(1945)
Mrs. Patterson
Captain Tugboat Annie
(1945)
Tugboat Annie
My Darling Clementine
(1946)
Kate Nelson
Three Wise Fools
(1946)
Sister Mary Brigid
The Dark Horse
(1946)
Aunt Hattie
Keeper of the Bees
(1947)
Mrs. Ferris
The Red Stallion
(1947)
Aggie Curtis
3 Godfathers
(1948)
Miss Florie
Train to Alcatraz
(1948)
Aunt Ella
Red Canyon
(1949)
Aunt Jane
Caged
(1950)
Isolation Matron
Wagon Master
(1950)
Sister Ledyard
The Second Face
(1950)
Mrs. Lockridge
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
(1950)
Mrs. Murphy
Redwood Forest Trail
(1950)
Hattie Hickory
Surrender
(1950)
Molly Hale
Father's Wild Game
(1950)
Minerva Bobbin
Three Husbands
(1950)
Mrs. Wurdeman
The Lemon Drop Kid
(1951)
'Nellie Thursday' Regan
Journey Into Light
(1951)
Mack
Excuse My Dust
(1951)
Mrs. Belden
We're Not Married!
(1952)
Mrs. Bush
The Bigamist
(1953)
Mrs. Connelley
Affair with a Stranger
(1953)
Ma Stanton
The Sun Shines Bright
(1953)
Aurora Ratchitt
It Happens Every Thursday
(1953)
Mrs. Spatch
A Life at Stake
(1955)
Landlady
Hit the Deck
(1955)
Jenny
There's Always Tomorrow
(1956)
Mme Rogers
Girls in Prison
(1956)
Matron Jamieson
The Greer Case
(1957)
Annie Jackson
The Last Hurrah
(1958)
Delia
Hound-Dog Man
(1959)
Grandma Wilson
Mary Poppins
(1964)
Bird Woman
Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
(1986)
(archive footage)
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