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Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

Highest Rated:
100% My Darling Clementine (1946)
Lowest Rated:
60% The White Parade (1934)
Birthday:
Oct 15, 1879
Birthplace:
Palmyra, Missouri, USA
Bio:
American actress Jane Darwell was the daughter of a Missouri railroad executive. Despite her father's disapproval, she spent most of her youth acting in circuses, opera troupes and stock companies, making her film debut in 1912. Even in her early thirties, Darwell specialized in formidable "grande…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 60% - 100%
Number of Movies: 73
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1964 100% Mary Poppins
  • Bird Woman
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1958 88% The Last Hurrah
  • Delia Boylan
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1956 There's Always Tomorrow
  • Mrs. Rogers
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1956 Girls in Prison
  • Matron Jamieson
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1955 Hit The Deck
  • Jenny
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1953 Affair With A Stranger
  • Ma Stanton
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1953 The Bigamist
  • Mrs. Connelly
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1953 The Sun Shines Bright
  • Mrs. Amora Ratchitt
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1953 It Happens Every Thursday
  • Mrs. Spatch
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1952 We're Not Married
  • Mrs. Bush
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1951 Excuse My Dust (Mr. Belden's Amazing Gasmobile)
  • Mrs. Belden
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1951 The Lemon Drop Kid
  • Nellie Thursday
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1951 100% 14 Hours
  • Actor
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1950 The Daughter Of Rosie O'grady
  • Mrs. Murphy
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1950 Caged
  • Isolation Matron
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1950 Three Husbands
  • Mrs. Wurdeman
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1950 100% Wagon Master
  • Sister Ledeyard
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1948 82% 3 Godfathers
  • Miss Florie
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1947 The Red Stallion
  • Mrs. Curtis
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1946 100% My Darling Clementine
  • Kate Nelson
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1945 I Live in Grosvenor Square
  • Mrs. Patterson
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1944 Sunday Dinner For A Soldier
  • Mrs. Dobson
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1943 Stage Door Canteen
  • Actor
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1943 Tender Comrade
  • Mrs. Henderson
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1943 94% The Ox-Bow Incident
  • Ma Grier
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1942 The Battle of Midway
  • Actor
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1941 100% All Through the Night
  • Ma Donahue
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1941 100% The Devil & Daniel Webster (All That Money Can Buy)
  • Ma Stone
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1940 Chad Hanna
  • Mrs. Huguenine
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1940 100% The Grapes of Wrath
  • Ma Joad
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1940 Brigham Young
  • Eliza Kent
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1939 Jesse James
  • Mrs. Samuels
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1939 96% Gone With the Wind
  • Dolly Merriwether [At The Bazaar In Atlanta]
--
1939 The Rains Came
  • Aunt Phoebe Smiley
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1939 Zero Hour
  • Sophie
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1938 Little Miss Broadway
  • Miss Hutchins
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1937 Love Is News
  • Mrs. Flaherty
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1936 86% Captain January
  • Eliza Croft
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1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
  • Mrs. Woodward
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1936 Private Number
  • Mrs. Meecham
--
1936 Craig's Wife
  • Mrs. Harold
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1936 We're Only Human
  • Mrs. Walsh
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1935 Metropolitan
  • Actor
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1935 Curly Top
  • Mrs. Denham
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1935 Paddy O'Day
  • Dora
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1935 Life Begins at Forty
  • Ida Harris
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1934 60% The White Parade
  • Miss "Sailor" Roberts
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1934 100% The Scarlet Empress (Catherine the Great)
  • Mlle. Cardell
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1934 60% One Night of Love
  • Mary's Mother
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1934 Wonder Bar
  • Baroness
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1934 Firebird
  • Actor
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1934 Change of Heart
  • Mrs. McGowan
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1934 Blind Date (Her Sacrifice)
  • Ma
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1934 Fashions of 1934
  • Dowager
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1934 Happiness Ahead
  • Actor
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1934 Wake Up and Dream
  • Woman
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1934 78% Bright Eyes
  • Mrs. Higgins
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1934 Heat Lighting
  • The Wife
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1933 Only Yesterday
  • Mrs. Lane
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1933 Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
  • Actor
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1933 Ann Vickers
  • Mrs. Gates
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1933 75% Design for Living
  • Housekeeper
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1933 One Sunday Afternoon
  • Mrs. Lind
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1933 Murders in the Zoo
  • Actor
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1933 Before Dawn
  • Mrs. Marble
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1933 Finishing School
  • Maud the Head Nurse
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1933 Roman Scandals
  • Beauty Salon Manager
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1932 Back Street
  • Mrs. Schmidt
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1932 Ladies of the Big House
  • Mrs. Turner
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1932 Hot Saturday
  • Mrs. Brock
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1932 Washington Merry-Go-Round
  • Actor
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1931 Fighting Caravans
  • Pioneer Woman
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1930 Tom Sawyer
  • Widow Douglas
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    1. Ma Joad: Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.
    From The Grapes of Wrath. Submitted by Filipe M (14 months ago)

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