Jane Darwell

Acting

Born: 1879-10-15 in Palmyra, Missouri, USA

Died: 1967-08-13

Biography

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.

Acting

Mary Poppins

Bird Woman

The Ox-Bow Incident

Ma Grier

The Grapes of Wrath

Ma Joad

Gone with the Wind

Mrs. Merriwether

One Night of Love

Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother

My Darling Clementine

Kate Nelson

Youth Will Be Served

Supervisor Stormer

The Rug Maker's Daughter

Mrs. Van Buren

We're Not Married!

Mrs. Bush

The Lemon Drop Kid

'Nellie Thursday' Regan

3 Godfathers

Miss Florie

Caged

Isolation Matron

All That Money Can Buy

Ma Stone

Curly Top

Mrs. Denham

Bright Eyes

Mrs. Higgins

All Through the Night

Mrs. Donahue

Wagon Master

Sister Ledyard

There's Always Tomorrow

Mme Rogers

Ann Vickers

Mrs. Gage (uncredited)

Jesse James

Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother

Family Feud

The Mother

Fashions of 1934

Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)

The Restless Sex

Housekeeper (uncredited)

Air Hostess

Ma Kearny

A Life at Stake

Landlady

Government Girl

Miss Trask (uncredited)

The Bigamist

Mrs. Connelley

The Battle of Midway

Narrator (voice)

Brigham Young

Eliza Kent

The Last Hurrah

Delia

The White Parade

Sailor

Bed of Roses

Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)

Captain January

Mrs. Eliza Croft

Design for Living

Curtis' Housekeeper

Tender Comrade

Mrs. Henderson

Men of Texas

Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie

Child of Manhattan

Mrs. McGonagle

One More Spring

Mary Sweeney

Affair with a Stranger

Ma Stanton

Highways by Night

Grandma Fogarty

Girls in Prison

Matron Jamieson

Craig's Wife

Mrs. Harold

The Second Face

Mrs. Lockridge

Train to Alcatraz

Aunt Ella

The Great Gildersleeve

Aunt Emma Forrester

Change of Heart

Mrs. Thompson

Chad Hanna

Mrs. Bettina Huguenine

Hit the Deck

Jenny

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

Mariah Clemm

Wonder Bar

Baroness (uncredited)

Paddy O'Day

Dora

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

Mrs. Murphy

Time Out for Murder

Polly, Helen's supervisor

Before Dawn

Mrs. Marble

One Sunday Afternoon

Mrs. Lind

Red Canyon

Aunt Jane

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

Aunt Emma Forrester

The Impatient Years

Minister's wife

Bondage

Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton

Slave Ship

Mrs. Marlowe

Five of a Kind

Nurse Waldron

Life Begins at Forty

Ida Harris

Music in Manhattan

Mrs. Pearson

Thieves Fall Out

Grandma Allen

We're Only Human

Mrs. Walsh

The Goose Girl

Irma

Three Wise Fools

Sister Mary Brigid

Metropolitan

Grandma

Little Miss Nobody

Eva Bradley

Keeper of the Bees

Mrs. Ferris

Battle of Broadway

Mrs. Rogers

Three Blind Mice

Mrs. Kilian

Little Miss Broadway

Miss Hutchins

Women Won't Tell

Mrs. Walter Robinson

Private Number

Mrs. Frisby

David Harum

Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)

Only Yesterday

Mrs. Lane

The Red Stallion

Aggie Curtis

Blind Date

Ma Taylor

The Scarlet Empress

Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)

Cross Country Cruise

Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)

The Country Doctor

Mrs. Graham

Redwood Forest Trail

Hattie Hickory

Ladies of the Big House

Mrs. Turner

Captain Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie

Inside Story

Aunt Mary Perkins

The Singing Marine

Ma Marine

Most Precious Thing in Life

Mrs. O'Day

Poor Little Rich Girl

Woodward

White Fang

Maud Mahoney

The Zero Hour

Sophie

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

Mrs. Mary Flaherty

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Mrs. Krueger

Huckleberry Finn

Widow Douglas

The Rains Came

Aunt Phoebe Smiley

Private Nurse

Miss Adams

Happiness Ahead

Mrs. Davis - The Landlady

Miracle on Main Street

Mrs. Herman

Change of Heart

Mrs. McGowan

Heat Lightning

Gladys

Finishing School

Maude (uncredited)

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Alice's Aunt

McFadden´s Flats

Nora McFadden

Desirable

Frederick's Mother

Laughing at Trouble

Glory Bradford

Jennie Gerhardt

Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

Journey Into Light

Mack

The Greer Case

Annie Jackson

Gentlemen Are Born

Landlady

Journal of a Crime

Dinner Guest (uncredited)

The Great Hospital Mystery

Nurse Sarah Keats

Tomorrow's Youth

Mary O'Brien

King for a Night

Mrs. Williams

Small Town Deb

Katie

Grand Jury Secrets

Mrs. Keefe

Untamed

Mrs. Maggie Moriarty

20,000 Men a Year

Mrs. Allen

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)

The Sun Shines Bright

Aurora Ratchitt

Dangerously Yours

Aunt Cynthia Barton

Hypocrites

Madam (uncredited)

It Happened in Flatbush

Mrs. Maguire

Stage Door Canteen

Jane Darwell

She's a Sweetheart

Mom

He Couldn't Take It

Mrs. Case

Navy Wife

Mrs. Louise Keats

Once to Every Woman

Mrs. Wood (uncredited)

Up the River

Mrs. Graham

The Dark Horse

Aunt Hattie

Love Is News

Mrs. Flaherty

Roman Scandals

Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)

Excuse My Dust

Mrs. Belden

Emergency Call

Nurse Brown (uncredited)

Back Street

Mrs. Adolph Schmidt

Unexpected Father

Mrs. Callahan

The Girl in 419

Nurse Esmond

Surrender

Molly Hale

It Happens Every Thursday

Mrs. Spatch

Murders in the Zoo

Banquet Guest (uncredited)

Star for a Night

Mrs. Martha Lind

The Rose of the Rancho

Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother

Hot Saturday

Mrs. Brock

Little Church Around the Corner

Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)

Tom Sawyer

Widow Douglas

Wig-Wag

Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother

The Past of Mary Holmes

On the Sunny Side

Annie

Hound-Dog Man

Grandma Wilson

Fifty Roads to Town

Mrs. Henry

Young America

Grandmother Nora Campbell

Father's Wild Game

Minerva Bobbin

I Live in Grosvenor Square

Mrs. Patterson

The Jury's Secret

Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother

Let's Talk It Over

Mrs. O'Keefe

Reckless Age

Mrs. Connors

Million Dollar Ransom

Ma McGarry (Uncredited)

Three Husbands

Mrs. Wurdeman

Ready Money

Mrs. Tyler

The First Baby

Mrs. Ellis

Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2

(archive footage)

Embarrassing Moments

Mrs. Stuckelberger

Young America

School Teacher (Uncredited)

The Only Son

Mrs. Brainerd

After Five

Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy

Lest We Forget

Archive Footage

Prima Donna

Lena

The Gilded Lily

Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)

Brewster's Millions

Mrs. Dan De Mille

The Master Mind

Milwaukee Sadie

Sincerely, Willis Wade

Mrs. Jacoby

Three Men on a Horse

Lady on Bus

Mary Poppins

Bird Woman

The Ox-Bow Incident

Ma Grier

The Grapes of Wrath

Ma Joad

Gone with the Wind

Mrs. Merriwether

One Night of Love

Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother

My Darling Clementine

Kate Nelson

Youth Will Be Served

Supervisor Stormer

The Rug Maker's Daughter

Mrs. Van Buren

We're Not Married!

Mrs. Bush

The Lemon Drop Kid

'Nellie Thursday' Regan

3 Godfathers

Miss Florie

Caged

Isolation Matron

All That Money Can Buy

Ma Stone

Curly Top

Mrs. Denham

Bright Eyes

Mrs. Higgins

All Through the Night

Mrs. Donahue

Wagon Master

Sister Ledyard

There's Always Tomorrow

Mme Rogers

Ann Vickers

Mrs. Gage (uncredited)

Jesse James

Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother

Family Feud

The Mother

Fashions of 1934

Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)

The Restless Sex

Housekeeper (uncredited)

Air Hostess

Ma Kearny

A Life at Stake

Landlady

Government Girl

Miss Trask (uncredited)

The Bigamist

Mrs. Connelley

The Battle of Midway

Narrator (voice)

Brigham Young

Eliza Kent

The Last Hurrah

Delia

The White Parade

Sailor

Bed of Roses

Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)

Captain January

Mrs. Eliza Croft

Design for Living

Curtis' Housekeeper

Tender Comrade

Mrs. Henderson

Men of Texas

Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie

Child of Manhattan

Mrs. McGonagle

One More Spring

Mary Sweeney

Affair with a Stranger

Ma Stanton

Highways by Night

Grandma Fogarty

Girls in Prison

Matron Jamieson

Craig's Wife

Mrs. Harold

The Second Face

Mrs. Lockridge

Train to Alcatraz

Aunt Ella

The Great Gildersleeve

Aunt Emma Forrester

Change of Heart

Mrs. Thompson

Chad Hanna

Mrs. Bettina Huguenine

Hit the Deck

Jenny

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

Mariah Clemm

Wonder Bar

Baroness (uncredited)

Paddy O'Day

Dora

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

Mrs. Murphy

Time Out for Murder

Polly, Helen's supervisor

Before Dawn

Mrs. Marble

One Sunday Afternoon

Mrs. Lind

Red Canyon

Aunt Jane

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

Aunt Emma Forrester

The Impatient Years

Minister's wife

Bondage

Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton

Slave Ship

Mrs. Marlowe

Five of a Kind

Nurse Waldron

Life Begins at Forty

Ida Harris

Music in Manhattan

Mrs. Pearson

Thieves Fall Out

Grandma Allen

We're Only Human

Mrs. Walsh

The Goose Girl

Irma

Three Wise Fools

Sister Mary Brigid

Metropolitan

Grandma

Little Miss Nobody

Eva Bradley

Keeper of the Bees

Mrs. Ferris

Battle of Broadway

Mrs. Rogers

Three Blind Mice

Mrs. Kilian

Little Miss Broadway

Miss Hutchins

Women Won't Tell

Mrs. Walter Robinson

Private Number

Mrs. Frisby

David Harum

Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)

Only Yesterday

Mrs. Lane

The Red Stallion

Aggie Curtis

Blind Date

Ma Taylor

The Scarlet Empress

Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)

Cross Country Cruise

Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)

The Country Doctor

Mrs. Graham

Redwood Forest Trail

Hattie Hickory

Ladies of the Big House

Mrs. Turner

Captain Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie

Inside Story

Aunt Mary Perkins

The Singing Marine

Ma Marine

Most Precious Thing in Life

Mrs. O'Day

Poor Little Rich Girl

Woodward

White Fang

Maud Mahoney

The Zero Hour

Sophie

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

Mrs. Mary Flaherty

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Mrs. Krueger

Huckleberry Finn

Widow Douglas

The Rains Came

Aunt Phoebe Smiley

Private Nurse

Miss Adams

Happiness Ahead

Mrs. Davis - The Landlady

Miracle on Main Street

Mrs. Herman

Change of Heart

Mrs. McGowan

Heat Lightning

Gladys

Finishing School

Maude (uncredited)

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Alice's Aunt

McFadden´s Flats

Nora McFadden

Desirable

Frederick's Mother

Laughing at Trouble

Glory Bradford

Jennie Gerhardt

Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

Journey Into Light

Mack

The Greer Case

Annie Jackson

Gentlemen Are Born

Landlady

Journal of a Crime

Dinner Guest (uncredited)

The Great Hospital Mystery

Nurse Sarah Keats

Tomorrow's Youth

Mary O'Brien

King for a Night

Mrs. Williams

Small Town Deb

Katie

Grand Jury Secrets

Mrs. Keefe

Untamed

Mrs. Maggie Moriarty

20,000 Men a Year

Mrs. Allen

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)

The Sun Shines Bright

Aurora Ratchitt

Dangerously Yours

Aunt Cynthia Barton

Hypocrites

Madam (uncredited)

It Happened in Flatbush

Mrs. Maguire

Stage Door Canteen

Jane Darwell

She's a Sweetheart

Mom

He Couldn't Take It

Mrs. Case

Navy Wife

Mrs. Louise Keats

Once to Every Woman

Mrs. Wood (uncredited)

Up the River

Mrs. Graham

The Dark Horse

Aunt Hattie

Love Is News

Mrs. Flaherty

Roman Scandals

Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)

Excuse My Dust

Mrs. Belden

Emergency Call

Nurse Brown (uncredited)

Back Street

Mrs. Adolph Schmidt

Unexpected Father

Mrs. Callahan

The Girl in 419

Nurse Esmond

Surrender

Molly Hale

It Happens Every Thursday

Mrs. Spatch

Murders in the Zoo

Banquet Guest (uncredited)

Star for a Night

Mrs. Martha Lind

The Rose of the Rancho

Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother

Hot Saturday

Mrs. Brock

Little Church Around the Corner

Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)

Tom Sawyer

Widow Douglas

Wig-Wag

Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother

The Past of Mary Holmes

On the Sunny Side

Annie

Hound-Dog Man

Grandma Wilson

Fifty Roads to Town

Mrs. Henry

Young America

Grandmother Nora Campbell

Father's Wild Game

Minerva Bobbin

I Live in Grosvenor Square

Mrs. Patterson

The Jury's Secret

Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother

Let's Talk It Over

Mrs. O'Keefe

Reckless Age

Mrs. Connors

Million Dollar Ransom

Ma McGarry (Uncredited)

Three Husbands

Mrs. Wurdeman

Ready Money

Mrs. Tyler

The First Baby

Mrs. Ellis

Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2

(archive footage)

Embarrassing Moments

Mrs. Stuckelberger

Young America

School Teacher (Uncredited)

The Only Son

Mrs. Brainerd

After Five

Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy

Lest We Forget

Archive Footage

Prima Donna

Lena

The Gilded Lily

Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)

Brewster's Millions

Mrs. Dan De Mille

The Master Mind

Milwaukee Sadie

Sincerely, Willis Wade

Mrs. Jacoby

Three Men on a Horse

Lady on Bus