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

1.0

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

Jesse James

1939

as Mrs. Samuels

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943

as Ma Grier

Design for Living

1933

as Curtis' Housekeeper

All That Money Can Buy

1941

as Ma Stone

The Scarlet Empress

1934

as Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)

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

Brigham Young

1940 • as Eliza Kent

★ 4.6

Before Dawn

1933 • as Mrs. Marble

★ 5.7

Affair with a Stranger

1953 • as Ma Stanton

★ 4.8

Tender Comrade

1944 • as Mrs. Henderson

★ 5.7

Three Wise Fools

1946 • as Sister Mary Brigid

★ 5.7

Jesse James

1939 • as Mrs. Samuels

★ 6.6

Hound-Dog Man

1959 • as Grandma Wilson

★ 4.7

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943 • as Ma Grier

★ 7.7

The Battle of Midway

1942 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 5.9

Wonder Bar

1934 • as Baroness (uncredited)

★ 6.0

Prima Donna

1956 • as Lena

Murders in the Zoo

1933 • as Banquet Guest (uncredited)

★ 5.9

There's Always Tomorrow

1956 • as Mme Rogers

★ 7.2

One Night of Love

1934 • as Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother

★ 5.5

Hit the Deck

1955 • as Jenny

★ 5.0

The Red Stallion

1947 • as Aggie Curtis

★ 10.0

Design for Living

1933 • as Curtis' Housekeeper

★ 7.1

All Through the Night

1942 • as Mrs. Donahue

★ 6.7

She's a Sweetheart

1944 • as Mom

★ 9.0

We're Not Married!

1952 • as Mrs. Bush

★ 6.0

Caged

1950 • as Isolation Matron

★ 7.1

Five of a Kind

1938 • as Nurse Waldron

★ 4.8

All That Money Can Buy

1941 • as Ma Stone

★ 7.0

The Singing Marine

1937 • as Ma Marine

★ 5.2

The Rains Came

1939 • as Aunt Phoebe Smiley

★ 6.1

Excuse My Dust

1951 • as Mrs. Belden

★ 7.8

The Scarlet Empress

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

★ 6.9

Wagon Master

1950 • as Sister Ledyard

★ 6.7

Little Miss Nobody

1936 • as Eva Bradley

★ 7.5

On the Sunny Side

1942 • as Annie

★ 7.0

Girls in Prison

1956 • as Matron Jamieson

★ 4.5

The Last Hurrah

1958 • as Delia

★ 7.2

Stage Door Canteen

1943 • as Jane Darwell

★ 6.3

The Sun Shines Bright

1953 • as Aurora Ratchitt

★ 6.6

Gentlemen Are Born

1934 • as Landlady

★ 7.3

Curly Top

1935 • as Mrs. Denham

★ 6.5

Love Is News

1937 • as Mrs. Flaherty

★ 6.3

He Couldn't Take It

1933 • as Mrs. Case

★ 10.0

Government Girl

1943 • as Miss Trask (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Highways by Night

1942 • as Grandma Fogarty

★ 7.3

Up the River

1938 • as Mrs. Graham

★ 8.5

The Bigamist

1953 • as Mrs. Connelley

★ 6.4

Captain Tugboat Annie

1945 • as Tugboat Annie

★ 8.0

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

1942 • as Mariah Clemm

★ 6.1

Tomorrow's Youth

1934 • as Mary O'Brien

★ 10.0

Air Hostess

1933 • as Ma Kearny

★ 6.3

The Rose of the Rancho

1914 • as Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother

★ 4.0

Sincerely, Willis Wade

1956 • as Mrs. Jacoby

★ 8.0

Bright Eyes

1934 • as Mrs. Higgins

★ 6.7

A Life at Stake

1955 • as Landlady

★ 5.3

The Lemon Drop Kid

1951 • as 'Nellie Thursday' Regan

★ 6.5

Bondage

1933 • as Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton

★ 7.0

David Harum

1934 • as Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)

★ 7.5

The Great Gildersleeve

1942 • as Aunt Emma Forrester

★ 6.2

Bed of Roses

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

★ 6.1

Journey Into Light

1951 • as Mack

★ 6.5

Roman Scandals

1933 • as Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)

★ 5.7

McFadden´s Flats

1935 • as Nora McFadden

★ 8.0

The Gilded Lily

1935 • as Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)

★ 6.7

Wig-Wag

1935 • as Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother

★ 7.0

The Country Doctor

1936 • as Mrs. Graham

★ 6.5

The Girl in 419

1933 • as Nurse Esmond

★ 4.2

Captain January

1936 • as Eliza Croft

★ 6.8

Fashions of 1934

1934 • as Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)

★ 6.6

Little Church Around the Corner

1923 • as Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)

★ 6.1

Red Canyon

1949 • as Aunt Jane

★ 5.8

Slave Ship

1937 • as Mrs. Marlowe

★ 5.1

Lest We Forget

1937 • as Archive Footage

★ 7.0

The Past of Mary Holmes

1933

★ 10.0

Poor Little Rich Girl

1936 • as Woodward

★ 6.6

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

1937 • as Mrs. Mary Flaherty

★ 6.7

Back Street

1932 • as Mrs. Adolph Schmidt

★ 6.4

Small Town Deb

1941 • as Katie

★ 6.5

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937 • as Mrs. Krueger

★ 7.0

Women Won't Tell

1932 • as Mrs. Walter Robinson

★ 7.0

Three Husbands

1950 • as Mrs. Wurdeman

★ 5.4

The Great Hospital Mystery

1937 • as Nurse Sarah Keats

★ 5.5

Hot Saturday

1932 • as Mrs. Brock

★ 6.5

One Sunday Afternoon

1933 • as Mrs. Lind

★ 6.6

Craig's Wife

1936 • as Mrs. Harold

★ 6.5

Finishing School

1934 • as Maude (uncredited)

★ 6.2

Star for a Night

1936 • as Mrs. Martha Lind

★ 7.0

Only Yesterday

1933 • as Mrs. Lane

★ 7.1

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

1933 • as Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)

★ 7.8

Redwood Forest Trail

1950 • as Hattie Hickory

★ 7.0

The Only Son

1914 • as Mrs. Brainerd

★ 1.0

The Jury's Secret

1938 • as Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother

★ 5.0

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

1950 • as Mrs. Murphy

★ 7.0

Miracle on Main Street

1939 • as Mrs. Herman

★ 5.4

20,000 Men a Year

1939 • as Mrs. Allen

★ 6.2

Life Begins at Forty

1935 • as Ida Harris

★ 10.0

I Live in Grosvenor Square

1945 • as Mrs. Patterson

★ 6.8

Little Miss Broadway

1938 • as Miss Hutchins

★ 6.5

It Happens Every Thursday

1953 • as Mrs. Spatch

★ 6.3

Most Precious Thing in Life

1934 • as Mrs. O'Day

★ 5.8

White Fang

1936 • as Maud Mahoney

★ 7.0

Young America

1932 • as School Teacher (Uncredited)

★ 5.5

Surrender

1950 • as Molly Hale

★ 4.8

Child of Manhattan

1933 • as Mrs. McGonagle

★ 7.2

Father's Wild Game

1950 • as Minerva Bobbin

★ 8.0

Journal of a Crime

1934 • as Dinner Guest (uncredited)

★ 5.9

Private Number

1936 • as Mrs. Frisby

★ 6.7

Tom Sawyer

1930 • as Widow Douglas

★ 6.3

Washington Merry-Go-Round

1932 • as Alice's Aunt

★ 7.5

Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2

1986 • as (archive footage)

★ 10.0

Thieves Fall Out

1941 • as Grandma Allen

★ 6.0

The Impatient Years

1944 • as Minister's wife

★ 6.4

Paddy O'Day

1936 • as Dora

★ 7.0

Ladies of the Big House

1931 • as Mrs. Turner

★ 6.0

Desirable

1934 • as Frederick's Mother

★ 7.2

Three Blind Mice

1938 • as Mrs. Kilian

★ 6.1

It Happened in Flatbush

1942 • as Mrs. Maguire

★ 5.4

One More Spring

1935 • as Mary Sweeney

★ 6.2

Music in Manhattan

1944 • as Mrs. Pearson

★ 6.0

Time Out for Murder

1938 • as Polly, Helen's supervisor

★ 6.2

Untamed

1940 • as Mrs. Maggie Moriarty

★ 5.0

We're Only Human

1935 • as Mrs. Walsh

★ 6.5

Dangerously Yours

1937 • as Aunt Cynthia Barton

★ 5.8

The White Parade

1934 • as Sailor

★ 6.8

Huckleberry Finn

1931 • as Widow Douglas

★ 7.0

Embarrassing Moments

1934 • as Mrs. Stuckelberger

★ 9.0

The Rug Maker's Daughter

1915 • as Mrs. Van Buren

Emergency Call

1933 • as Nurse Brown (uncredited)

★ 6.3

Cross Country Cruise

1934 • as Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)

★ 6.7

The Zero Hour

1939 • as Sophie

★ 5.3

Laughing at Trouble

1936 • as Glory Bradford

★ 8.0

The Restless Sex

1920 • as Housekeeper (uncredited)

★ 7.0

Keeper of the Bees

1947 • as Mrs. Ferris

★ 10.0

The Greer Case

1957 • as Annie Jackson

Chad Hanna

1940 • as Mrs. Bettina Huguenine

★ 7.3

Hypocrites

1915 • as Madam (uncredited)

★ 5.6

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

1943 • as Aunt Emma Forrester

★ 6.6

Change of Heart

1934 • as Mrs. McGowan

★ 6.3

King for a Night

1933 • as Mrs. Williams

★ 7.2

Jennie Gerhardt

1933 • as Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

★ 5.7

Blind Date

1934 • as Ma Taylor

★ 8.0

Youth Will Be Served

1940 • as Supervisor Stormer

★ 4.0

The First Baby

1936 • as Mrs. Ellis

★ 8.0

Three Men on a Horse

1957 • as Lady on Bus

Once to Every Woman

1934 • as Mrs. Wood (uncredited)

★ 6.1

The Goose Girl

1915 • as Irma

Fifty Roads to Town

1937 • as Mrs. Henry

★ 10.0

Heat Lightning

1934 • as Gladys

★ 7.2

Unexpected Father

1939 • as Mrs. Callahan

★ 6.2

Change of Heart

1938 • as Mrs. Thompson

★ 7.0

Navy Wife

1935 • as Mrs. Louise Keats

★ 6.0

Battle of Broadway

1938 • as Mrs. Rogers

★ 5.0

Ann Vickers

1933 • as Mrs. Gage (uncredited)

★ 5.8

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Family Feud

1943 • as The Mother

★ 10.0

Let's Talk It Over

1934 • as Mrs. O'Keefe

★ 10.0

Reckless Age

1944 • as Mrs. Connors

★ 9.0

Happiness Ahead

1934 • as Mrs. Davis - The Landlady

★ 6.6

The Second Face

1950 • as Mrs. Lockridge

★ 7.0

Grand Jury Secrets

1939 • as Mrs. Keefe

★ 7.0

After Five

1915 • as Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy

Young America

1942 • as Grandmother Nora Campbell

★ 9.0

Men of Texas

1942 • as Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie

★ 9.0

The Dark Horse

1946 • as Aunt Hattie

★ 7.0

Private Nurse

1941 • as Miss Adams

★ 7.0

Inside Story

1939 • as Aunt Mary Perkins

★ 9.0

Brewster's Millions

1914 • as Mrs. Dan De Mille

★ 6.0

Metropolitan

1935 • as Grandma

★ 8.0

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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

The Master Mind

1914 • as Milwaukee Sadie