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Jane Darwell was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than one hundred major motion pictures spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath,

for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and her role as the Bird Woman in Disney’s musical family film Mary Poppins. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Darwell studied voice culture and the piano, followed by dramatics. At one point, she decided to enter a convent, then changed her mind and became an actress. She began acting in theater productions in Chicago and made her first film appearance in 1913. She appeared in almost twenty films over the next two years before returning to the stage.

After a 15-year absence from films, she appeared in Tom Sawyer (1930), and her career as a Hollywood character actress began. Short, stout and plain, she was quickly cast in a succession of films, usually as the mother of one of the main characters. She also appeared in five Shirley Temple films, usually as the housekeeper or grandmother.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as “Ma Joad” in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), a role she was given at the insistence of the film’s star, Henry Fonda. A contract player with 20th Century Fox, Darwell was memorably cast in The Ox-Bow Incident, and occasionally starred in “B” movies and played featured parts in scores of major films.

Darwell had noted appearances on the stage as well; in 1944, she was popular in the stage comedy Suds in Your Eye, in which she played an Irishwoman who had inherited a junkyard.

By the end of her career, she had appeared in more than 170 films, including Huckleberry Finn (1931), Jesse James (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), and My Darling Clementine (1946).

Darwell was among the guest stars on an episode of Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town, a variety television series which aired on CBS from 1951 to 1952 in which hostess Faye Emerson visits a different city each week to accent the local music. In 1954, Darwell appeared with Andy Clyde in the episode “Santa’s Old Suit” of the series, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse.

This same episode was re-run the following Christmas 1955 on Studio 57. In 1959, she appeared with child actor Roger Mobley in the episode “Mr. Rush’s Secretary” on the NBC western series, Buckskin, starring Tom Nolan and Sally Brophy. She guest-starred on John Bromfield’s crime drama in a modern western setting, Sheriff of Cochise.

On July 27, 1961, Darwell appeared as “Grandmother McCoy” in an episode of the ABC sitcom The Real McCoys. In the storyline, the series characters played by Walter Brennan, Richard Crenna, and Kathleen Nolan return to fictitious Smokey Corners, West Virginia, for Grandmother McCoy’s 100th birthday gathering. Darwell was fifteen years older than “son,” Walter Brennan. Pat Buttram and Henry Jones appeared in this episode as Cousin Carl and Jed McCoy, respectively.

Darwell’s final role as the old woman feeding the birds in Mary Poppins (1964) was personally assigned to her by Walt Disney.

On February 8, 1960, Darwell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion-picture industry; it is located at 6735 Hollywood Boulevard.

Jane Darwell Age

Jane Darwell (Full name: Patti Woodard) died August 13, 1967, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, from a myocardial infarction at the age of 87 years old. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. She was born on October 15, 1879, Palmyra, MO

Jane Darwell Net Worth

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Early life

Born to William Robert Woodard, president of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen Booth Woodard in Palmyra in Marion County in northeastern Missouri, Darwell originally intended to become a circus rider, then later an opera singer. Her father objected, however, and she compromised by becoming an actress, changing her name to Darwell to avoid sullying the family name.

The Jane Darwell Birthplace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Woodard vs. Woodward
Some sources give Darwell’s birth name as Patti Woodward. They include Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia, Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965, Missouri Biographical Dictionary, Screen World 1968, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, and Dictionary of Missouri Biography.

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Jane Darwell was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than one hundred major motion pictures spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath,

for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and her role as the Bird Woman in Disney’s musical family film Mary Poppins. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her Pieces of information about Marriages, Wedding, and Husband was unknown but stay ready for the update soon.

Movies

Jane DarwellMovies The Grapes of Wrath 1940, Mary Poppins 1964, Gone with the Wind 1939, The Ox-Bow Incident 1943, My Darling Clementine 1946, The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941, Bright Eyes 1934, Curly Top 1935, Wagon Master 1950, All Through the Night 1942, The Last Hurrah 1958, 3 Godfathers 1948, Captain January 1936, Design for Living 1933, Caged 1950, Jesse James 1939,

The Lemon Drop Kid 1951, Poor Little Rich Girl 1936, Craig’s Wife 1936, The Sun Shines Bright 1953, The Bigamist 1953, Back Street 1932, Little Miss Broadway 1938, The Rains Came 1939, Paddy O’Day 1935, Tom Sawyer 1930, Life Begins at 40 1935, The Country Doctor 1936, We’re Not Married! 1952, Hit the Deck 1955, Hot Saturday 1932, The White Parade 1934, Love is News 1937,

Affair with a Stranger 1953, Ladies of the Big House 1931, Private Number 1936, The Red Stallion 1947, Child of Manhattan 1933, One Sunday Afternoon 1933, It Happens Every Thursday 1953, The Great Hospital Mystery 1937, Heat Lightning 1934, Stage Door Canteen 1943, There’s Always Tomorrow 1956, Chad Hanna 1940, Girls in Prison 1956, It Happened in Flatbush 1942, Brigham Young 1940, The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady 1950, Change of Heart 1934, and The Singing Marine 1937

Jane Darwell Death

In her last years, Darwell’s health was poor. It took personal persuasion from Walt Disney for her to appear in Disney’s Mary Poppins as she was, by then, tired, frail and in her middle eighties.

Darwell died August 13, 1967, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, from a myocardial infarction at the age of 87. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.