Jane Darwell

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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.

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Born

Oct 15, 1879

Palmyra, Missouri, USA

Died

Aug 13, 1967

Known For

Acting

Movies

171 acting

0 crew

Popularity

1.2

movie

Known For

Gone with the Wind

1939

as Mrs. Merriwether

Mary Poppins

1964

as Bird Woman

3 Godfathers

1948

as Miss Florie

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

as Ma Joad

My Darling Clementine

1946

as Kate Nelson

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943

as Ma Grier

Design for Living

1933

as Curtis' Housekeeper

Wagon Master

1950

as Sister Ledyard

Jesse James

1939

as Mrs. Samuels

All That Money Can Buy

1941

as Ma Stone

Gone with the Wind

1939 • as Mrs. Merriwether

★ 7.9

Mary Poppins

1964 • as Bird Woman

★ 7.6

3 Godfathers

1948 • as Miss Florie

★ 6.8

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 • as Ma Joad

★ 7.8

My Darling Clementine

1946 • as Kate Nelson

★ 7.5

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943 • as Ma Grier

★ 7.7

Caged

1950 • as Isolation Matron

★ 7.1

We're Not Married!

1952 • as Mrs. Bush

★ 6.0

Curly Top

1935 • as Mrs. Denham

★ 6.5

Design for Living

1933 • as Curtis' Housekeeper

★ 7.1

Affair with a Stranger

1953 • as Ma Stanton

★ 4.8

All Through the Night

1942 • as Mrs. Donahue

★ 6.7

The Rains Came

1939 • as Aunt Phoebe Smiley

★ 6.1

Wagon Master

1950 • as Sister Ledyard

★ 6.7

Before Dawn

1933 • as Mrs. Marble

★ 5.7

Jesse James

1939 • as Mrs. Samuels

★ 6.6

The Sun Shines Bright

1953 • as Aurora Ratchitt

★ 6.6

Brigham Young

1940 • as Eliza Kent

★ 4.6

The Last Hurrah

1958 • as Delia

★ 7.2

The Battle of Midway

1942 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 5.9

All That Money Can Buy

1941 • as Ma Stone

★ 7.0

The Scarlet Empress

1934 • as Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)

★ 6.9

Tender Comrade

1944 • as Mrs. Henderson

★ 5.7

He Couldn't Take It

1933 • as Mrs. Case

★ 10.0

There's Always Tomorrow

1956 • as Mme Rogers

★ 7.2

The Bigamist

1953 • as Mrs. Connelley

★ 6.4

A Life at Stake

1955 • as Landlady

★ 5.3

On the Sunny Side

1942 • as Annie

★ 7.0

One Night of Love

1934 • as Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother

★ 5.5

Hit the Deck

1955 • as Jenny

★ 5.0

Wig-Wag

1935 • as Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother

★ 7.0

Wonder Bar

1934 • as Baroness (uncredited)

★ 6.0

Stage Door Canteen

1943 • as Jane Darwell

★ 6.3

The Country Doctor

1936 • as Mrs. Graham

★ 6.5

The Lemon Drop Kid

1951 • as 'Nellie Thursday' Regan

★ 6.5

Murders in the Zoo

1933 • as Banquet Guest (uncredited)

★ 5.9

Poor Little Rich Girl

1936 • as Woodward

★ 6.6

Government Girl

1943 • as Miss Trask (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Love Is News

1937 • as Mrs. Flaherty

★ 6.3

The Great Gildersleeve

1942 • as Aunt Emma Forrester

★ 6.2

Fashions of 1934

1934 • as Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)

★ 6.6

Three Wise Fools

1946 • as Sister Mary Brigid

★ 5.7

Roman Scandals

1933 • as Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)

★ 5.8

Hound-Dog Man

1959 • as Grandma Wilson

★ 4.7

White Fang

1936 • as Maud Mahoney

★ 7.0

The Red Stallion

1947 • as Aggie Curtis

★ 10.0

Desirable

1934 • as Frederick's Mother

★ 7.2

She's a Sweetheart

1944 • as Mom

★ 9.0

Star for a Night

1936 • as Mrs. Martha Lind

★ 7.0

Slave Ship

1937 • as Mrs. Marlowe

★ 5.1

The Impatient Years

1944 • as Minister's wife

★ 6.4

Music in Manhattan

1944 • as Mrs. Pearson

★ 6.0

Captain January

1936 • as Eliza Croft

★ 6.8

Chad Hanna

1940 • as Mrs. Bettina Huguenine

★ 7.0

The Gilded Lily

1935 • as Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)

★ 6.7

It Happens Every Thursday

1953 • as Mrs. Spatch

★ 6.3

McFadden´s Flats

1935 • as Nora McFadden

★ 8.0

Five of a Kind

1938 • as Nurse Waldron

★ 4.8

The Great Hospital Mystery

1937 • as Nurse Sarah Keats

★ 5.5

Paddy O'Day

1936 • as Dora

★ 7.0

Father's Wild Game

1950 • as Minerva Bobbin

★ 8.0

Miracle on Main Street

1939 • as Mrs. Herman

★ 5.4

Surrender

1950 • as Molly Hale

★ 4.8

Highways by Night

1942 • as Grandma Fogarty

★ 7.3

Bright Eyes

1934 • as Mrs. Higgins

★ 6.7

Journal of a Crime

1934 • as Dinner Guest (uncredited)

★ 5.9

Navy Wife

1935 • as Mrs. Louise Keats

★ 6.0

The Rose of the Rancho

1914 • as Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother

★ 4.0

Back Street

1932 • as Mrs. Adolph Schmidt

★ 6.4

Private Number

1936 • as Mrs. Frisby

★ 6.7

Air Hostess

1933 • as Ma Kearny

★ 6.3

David Harum

1934 • as Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)

★ 7.5

Huckleberry Finn

1931 • as Widow Douglas

★ 7.0

The Singing Marine

1937 • as Ma Marine

★ 5.2

Finishing School

1934 • as Maude (uncredited)

★ 6.2

Prima Donna

1956 • as Lena

Young America

1932 • as School Teacher (Uncredited)

★ 5.5

Emergency Call

1933 • as Nurse Brown (uncredited)

★ 6.3

Red Canyon

1949 • as Aunt Jane

★ 5.8

Life Begins at Forty

1935 • as Ida Harris

★ 10.0

Bondage

1933 • as Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton

★ 7.0

Only Yesterday

1933 • as Mrs. Lane

★ 7.1

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Family Feud

1943 • as The Mother

★ 10.0

Happiness Ahead

1934 • as Mrs. Davis - The Landlady

★ 6.6

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

1933 • as Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)

★ 7.8

King for a Night

1933 • as Mrs. Williams

★ 7.2

Up the River

1938 • as Mrs. Graham

★ 8.5

Women Won't Tell

1932 • as Mrs. Walter Robinson

★ 7.0

Blind Date

1934 • as Ma Taylor

★ 8.0

The Greer Case

1957 • as Annie Jackson

I Live in Grosvenor Square

1945 • as Mrs. Patterson

★ 6.8

The Girl in 419

1933 • as Nurse Esmond

★ 4.2

Gentlemen Are Born

1934 • as Landlady

★ 7.3

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937 • as Mrs. Krueger

★ 7.0

Girls in Prison

1956 • as Matron Jamieson

★ 4.5

Dangerously Yours

1937 • as Aunt Cynthia Barton

★ 5.8

Ladies of the Big House

1931 • as Mrs. Turner

★ 6.0

20,000 Men a Year

1939 • as Mrs. Allen

★ 6.2

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

1943 • as Aunt Emma Forrester

★ 6.6

Once to Every Woman

1934 • as Mrs. Wood (uncredited)

★ 6.1

The Past of Mary Holmes

1933

★ 10.0

Little Miss Broadway

1938 • as Miss Hutchins

★ 6.5

The Jury's Secret

1938 • as Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother

★ 5.0

Three Husbands

1950 • as Mrs. Wurdeman

★ 5.4

Time Out for Murder

1938 • as Polly, Helen's supervisor

★ 6.2

Heat Lightning

1934 • as Gladys

★ 7.2

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

1937 • as Mrs. Mary Flaherty

★ 6.7

Hypocrites

1915 • as Madam (uncredited)

★ 5.6

Ann Vickers

1933 • as Mrs. Gage (uncredited)

★ 5.8

Tom Sawyer

1930 • as Widow Douglas

★ 6.3

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

1950 • as Mrs. Murphy

★ 7.0

Thieves Fall Out

1941 • as Grandma Allen

★ 6.0

One More Spring

1935 • as Mary Sweeney

★ 6.2

Lest We Forget

1937 • as Archive Footage

★ 7.0

Bed of Roses

1933 • as Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)

★ 6.1

The Only Son

1914 • as Mrs. Brainerd

★ 1.0

Most Precious Thing in Life

1934 • as Mrs. O'Day

★ 5.8

Child of Manhattan

1933 • as Mrs. McGonagle

★ 7.2

Grand Jury Secrets

1939 • as Mrs. Keefe

★ 7.0

Sincerely, Willis Wade

1956 • as Mrs. Jacoby

★ 8.0

Three Blind Mice

1938 • as Mrs. Kilian

★ 6.1

Change of Heart

1934 • as Mrs. McGowan

★ 6.3

Little Miss Nobody

1936 • as Eva Bradley

★ 7.5

Excuse My Dust

1951 • as Mrs. Belden

★ 7.8

Keeper of the Bees

1947 • as Mrs. Ferris

★ 10.0

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

1942 • as Mariah Clemm

★ 6.1

It Happened in Flatbush

1942 • as Mrs. Maguire

★ 5.4

Craig's Wife

1936 • as Mrs. Harold

★ 6.5

The First Baby

1936 • as Mrs. Ellis

★ 8.0

Washington Merry-Go-Round

1932 • as Alice's Aunt

★ 7.5

We're Only Human

1935 • as Mrs. Walsh

★ 6.5

The Zero Hour

1939 • as Sophie

★ 5.3

Let's Talk It Over

1934 • as Mrs. O'Keefe

★ 10.0

Youth Will Be Served

1940 • as Supervisor Stormer

★ 4.0

Fifty Roads to Town

1937 • as Mrs. Henry

★ 10.0

Little Church Around the Corner

1923 • as Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)

★ 6.1

Journey Into Light

1951 • as Mack

★ 6.5

Private Nurse

1941 • as Miss Adams

★ 7.0

The Rug Maker's Daughter

1915 • as Mrs. Van Buren

Embarrassing Moments

1934 • as Mrs. Stuckelberger

★ 9.0

Laughing at Trouble

1936 • as Glory Bradford

★ 8.0

Redwood Forest Trail

1950 • as Hattie Hickory

★ 7.0

Hot Saturday

1932 • as Mrs. Brock

★ 6.5

Captain Tugboat Annie

1945 • as Tugboat Annie

★ 8.0

Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2

1986 • as (archive footage)

★ 10.0

Inside Story

1939 • as Aunt Mary Perkins

★ 9.0

The White Parade

1934 • as Sailor

★ 6.8

Three Men on a Horse

1957 • as Lady on Bus

Change of Heart

1938 • as Mrs. Thompson

★ 7.0

Jennie Gerhardt

1933 • as Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Untamed

1940 • as Mrs. Maggie Moriarty

★ 5.0

After Five

1915 • as Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy

Brewster's Millions

1914 • as Mrs. Dan De Mille

★ 6.0

The Goose Girl

1915 • as Irma

Men of Texas

1942 • as Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie

★ 9.0

The Second Face

1950 • as Mrs. Lockridge

★ 7.0

Battle of Broadway

1938 • as Mrs. Rogers

★ 5.0

The Restless Sex

1920 • as Housekeeper (uncredited)

★ 7.0

One Sunday Afternoon

1933 • as Mrs. Lind

★ 6.6

Cross Country Cruise

1934 • as Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)

★ 6.7

Tomorrow's Youth

1934 • as Mary O'Brien

★ 10.0

Young America

1942 • as Grandmother Nora Campbell

★ 9.0

The Master Mind

1914 • as Milwaukee Sadie

The Dark Horse

1946 • as Aunt Hattie

★ 7.0

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Train to Alcatraz

1948 • as Aunt Ella

★ 7.7

Million Dollar Ransom

1934 • as Ma McGarry (Uncredited)

★ 5.0

Ready Money

1914 • as Mrs. Tyler

Unexpected Father

1939 • as Mrs. Callahan

★ 6.2

Small Town Deb

1941 • as Katie

★ 6.5

Reckless Age

1944 • as Mrs. Connors

★ 9.0

Metropolitan

1935 • as Grandma

★ 8.0