Jane Darwell : Oscar Winning Actress

 

Overview

Born : October 15, 1879 in Palmyra, Missouri, USA

Died : August 13, 1967 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA  (heart attack)

Birth Name : Patti Mary Woodard

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Missouri-conceived Jane Darwell was conceived Patti Woodard, the girl of William Robert Woodard, leader of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen (Booth) Woodard, in Palmyra, Missouri, where she experienced childhood with a farm . She breast fed desires to be a show vocalist, yet put it off due to her dad's dissatisfaction (she at last changed her name to Darwell from the family name of Woodard so as not to "soil" the family name). Making her stage debut at age 33, she was right around 40 when she made her first film, a quiet, in 1913.

She effortlessly made the change from silents to talkies, and spent significant time in playing benevolent, grandmotherly types. Her most renowned job was as Ma Joad, the paste that kept the Joad family intact, in the exemplary The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which she won the Academy Award. She was, nonetheless, significantly cast against type in The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), as the peevish, snickering Ma Grier, a lynch crowd pioneer, and again in Caged (1950), as the unsympathetic jail lady accountable for the disconnection ward.

She made more than 200 movies. Her last, Mary Poppins (1964), was made at the express solicitation of Walt Disney; she had resigned and was residing at the Motion Picture Country Home and Disney came out by and by to request that she show up in the film, after which she returned into retirement. She passed on in 1967 in the wake of experiencing a stroke and a coronary episode, and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Had resigned in 1959 and was residing at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California, when she was drawn nearer by Walt Disney Pictures to play the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins (1964). She at first declined, however Walt Disney was so determined to have her in his film that he actually visited her at the MPCH and in the long run convinced her to play the job.

Was the fifteenth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) at The thirteenth Academy Awards on February 27, 1941.

History in "Entertainers of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.

Had showed up in four movies that were named for the Best Picture Oscar: Gone with the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) and Mary Poppins (1964). Of those, Gone with the Wind (1939) is a champ in the classification.

Had showed up in six movies coordinated by John Ford: The Grapes of Wrath (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946), Three Godfathers (1948), Wagon Master (1950), The Sun Shines Bright (1953) and The Last Hurrah (1958).

She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6735 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

She has showed up in five movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, all things considered or stylishly" huge: Gone with the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), My Darling Clementine (1946) and Mary Poppins (1964).

List of Jane Darwell Movies

• Mary Poppins
•  The Last Hurrah
•  Girls in Prison
•  There's Always Tomorrow
•  A Life at Stake
•  Hit the Deck
•  The Bigamist
•  Affair with a Stranger
•  It Happens Every Thursday
•  The Sun Shines Bright
•  We're Not Married!
•  Journey Into Light
•  Excuse My Dust
•  The Lemon Drop Kid
•  Father's Wild Game
•  The Second Face
•  Three Husbands
•  Redwood Forest Trail
•  Surrender
•  Caged
•  Wagon Master
•  The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
•  Red Canyon
•  Three Godfathers
•  Train to Alcatraz
•  The Red Stallion
•  Keeper of the Bees
•  My Darling Clementine
•  Three Wise Fools
•  The Dark Horse
•  Captain Tugboat Annie
•  I Live in Grosvenor Square
•  Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
•  She's a Sweetheart
•  Music in Manhattan
•  The Impatient Years
•  Reckless Age
•  Tender Comrade
•  Government Girl
•  Stage Door Canteen
•  Gildersleeve's Bad Day
•  The Great Gildersleeve
•  The Ox-Bow Incident
•  Highways by Night
•  The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
•  Men of Destiny
•  It Happened in Flatbush
•  Small Town Deb
•  On the Sunny Side
•  Young America
•  All Through the Night
•  The Devil and Daniel Webster
•  Private Nurse
•  Thieves Fall Out
•  Chad Hanna
•  Youth Will Be Served
•  Brigham Young: Frontiersman
•  Untamed
•  The Grapes of Wrath
•  Miracle on Main Street
•  Gone with the Wind
•  20,000 Men a Year
•  The Rains Came
•  Grand Jury Secrets
•  Unexpected Father
•  The Zero Hour
•  Inside Story
•  Jesse James
•  Up the River
•  Five of a Kind
•  Time Out for Murder
•  Little Miss Broadway
•  Three Blind Mice
•  Battle of Broadway
•  The Jury's Secret
•  Change of Heart
•  Dangerously Yours
•  Wife, Doctor and Nurse
•  The Singing Marine
•  Slave Ship
•  Fifty Roads to Town
•  The Great Hospital Mystery
•  Nancy Steele Is Missing!
•  Love Is News
•  Laughing at Trouble
•  Craig's Wife
•  Ramona
•  Star for a Night
•  White Fang
•  Poor Little Rich Girl
•  Little Miss Nobody
•  Secret Interlude
•  Captain January
•  The First Baby
•  The Country Doctor
•  Paddy O'Day
•  We're Only Human
•  Metropolitan
•  Navy Wife
•  Curly Top
•  Life Begins at 40
•  McFadden's Flats
•  One More Spring
•  Bright Eyes
•  Gentlemen Are Born
•  The White Parade
•  The Firebird
•  Tomorrow's Youth
•  Happiness Ahead
•  Wake Up and Dream
•  Desirable
•  One Night of Love
•  Embarrassing Moments
•  Million Dollar Ransom
•  Her Sacrifice
•  Most Precious Thing in Life
•  Let's Talk It Over
•  Change of Heart
•  The Scarlet Empress
•  Finishing School
•  Once to Every Woman
•  Journal of a Crime
•  David Harum
•  Heat Lightning
•  Wonder Bar
•  Fashions of 1934
•  Cross Country Cruise
•  King for a Night
•  Roman Scandals
•  Design for Living
•  Only Yesterday
•  Cupid in the Rough
•  Ann Vickers
•  One Sunday Afternoon
•  One of the Many
•  Before Dawn
•  Bed of Roses
•  Jennie Gerhardt
•  Emergency Call
•  The Girl in 419
•  Bondage
•  Murders in the Zoo
•  Child of Manhattan
•  The Past of Mary Holmes
•  Air Hostess
•  Women Won't Tell
•  Hot Saturday
•  Invisible Power
•  Back Street
•  The Strange Case of Clara Deane
•  We Humans
•  No One Man
•  Ladies of the Big House
•  Huckleberry Finn
•  Fighting Caravans
•  Tom Sawyer
•  Little Church Around the Corner
•  The Restless Sex
•  The Reform Candidate
•  The Rug Maker's Daughter
•  After Five
•  The Goose Girl
•  Hypocrites
•  Rose of the Rancho
•  Ready Money
•  The Man on the Box
•  The Only Son
•  The Master Mind
•  Brewster's Millions    & Many more….