Jane Darwell
Birthday: 1879-10-13
Place of Birth: Palmyra, Missouri, USA
Biography: 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.
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Mary Poppins
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The Ox-Bow Incident
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Gone with the Wind
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One Night of Love
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My Darling Clementine
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Youth Will Be Served
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The Rug Maker's Daughter
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We're Not Married!
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The Lemon Drop Kid
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3 Godfathers
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Caged
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All That Money Can Buy
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Curly Top
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Bright Eyes
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All Through the Night
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Wagon Master
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There's Always Tomorrow
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Ann Vickers
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Jesse James
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Family Feud
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Fashions of 1934
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The Restless Sex
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A Life at Stake
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Government Girl
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The Bigamist
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The Battle of Midway
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Brigham Young
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The Last Hurrah
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The White Parade
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Bed of Roses
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Captain January
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Tender Comrade
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Men of Texas
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Child of Manhattan
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One More Spring
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Affair with a Stranger
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Highways by Night
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Girls in Prison
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Craig's Wife
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The Second Face
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Train to Alcatraz
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The Great Gildersleeve
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Change of Heart
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Chad Hanna
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Hit the Deck
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Wonder Bar
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Paddy O'Day
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
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Time Out for Murder
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Before Dawn
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One Sunday Afternoon
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Red Canyon
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The Impatient Years
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Bondage
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Slave Ship
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Five of a Kind
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Life Begins at Forty
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Music in Manhattan
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Thieves Fall Out
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The Goose Girl
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Metropolitan
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Little Miss Nobody
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Keeper of the Bees
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Battle of Broadway
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Three Blind Mice
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Little Miss Broadway
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Women Won't Tell
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Private Number
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David Harum
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Only Yesterday
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The Red Stallion
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Blind Date
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The Scarlet Empress
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Cross Country Cruise
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The Country Doctor
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Redwood Forest Trail
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Ladies of the Big House
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Captain Tugboat Annie
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Inside Story
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Most Precious Thing in Life
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The Singing Marine
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Poor Little Rich Girl
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White Fang
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The Zero Hour
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him....
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Huckleberry Finn
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while H...
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The Rains Came
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor ...
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Private Nurse
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that he...
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Happiness Ahead
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Miracle on Main Street
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Change of Heart
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fl...
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Heat Lightning
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Finishing School
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical inter...
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quic...
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McFadden´s Flats
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side calle...
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Laughing at Trouble
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publ...
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Jennie Gerhardt
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series o...
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Journey Into Light
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The Greer Case
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue....
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Journal of a Crime
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime....
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Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the ...
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The Great Hospital Mystery
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient....
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King for a Night
A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is in...
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Small Town Deb
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbis...
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Grand Jury Secrets
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room sess...
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Untamed
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community f...
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20,000 Men a Year
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boos...
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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption....
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The Sun Shines Bright
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involve...
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Dangerously Yours
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York...
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Hypocrites
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Pu...
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It Happened in Flatbush
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is...
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Stage Door Canteen
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars o...
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She's a Sweetheart
In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, pro...
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He Couldn't Take It
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process se...
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Navy Wife
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter....
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Up the River
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape ...
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The Dark Horse
Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that di...
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Love Is News
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...
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Roman Scandals
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asl...
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Excuse My Dust
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven w...
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Emergency Call
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital....
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Back Street
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets...
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Unexpected Father
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he...
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The Girl in 419
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a ...
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Surrender
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It Happens Every Thursday
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Murders in the Zoo
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Star for a Night
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The Rose of the Rancho
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Hot Saturday
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Little Church Around the Corner
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn...
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Tom Sawyer
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pal...
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Wig-Wag
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The Past of Mary Holmes
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On the Sunny Side
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Hound-Dog Man
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Fifty Roads to Town
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the...
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Young America
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Father's Wild Game
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for...
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neag...
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The Jury's Secret
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia...
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Let's Talk It Over
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately ...
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Reckless Age
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home...
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Million Dollar Ransom
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helpi...
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Three Husbands
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--h...
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Ready Money
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city type...
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The First Baby
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Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
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Embarrassing Moments
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Young America
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do abou...
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The Only Son
Thomas Brainerd, Sr., as a prospector, is a dutiful and loving husband and father, but when he strik...
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After Five
Thinking that he has lost both his money and his beloved Nora's in a bad investment young New Yorker...
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Lest We Forget
MGM hosts a salute to Will Rogers (1875-1935) shortly after his death. After a few words from Gary C...
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Prima Donna
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The Gilded Lily
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Brewster's Millions
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The Master Mind
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Sincerely, Willis Wade
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Three Men on a Horse
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