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Jane Darwell
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Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard; October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than 100 major movies 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. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
Hound-Dog Man
Three Men on a Horse
Girls in Prison
There's Always Tomorrow
A Life at Stake
Hit the Deck
The Bigamist
Affair with a Stranger
It Happens Every Thursday
Journey Into Light
The Lemon Drop Kid
Excuse My Dust
Father's Wild Game
The Second Face
Three Husbands
Caged
Wagon Master
Surrender
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Redwood Forest Trail
Red Canyon
3 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
The Impatient Years
Reckless Age
Tender Comrade
She's a Sweetheart
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Music in Manhattan
Government Girl
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Great Gildersleeve
Highways by Night
The Battle of Midway
Men of Texas
It Happened in Flatbush
Young America
All Through the Night
On the Sunny Side
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Small Town Deb
All That Money Can Buy
Private Nurse
Thieves Fall Out
Chad Hanna
Brigham Young
The Grapes of Wrath
Untamed
Youth Will Be Served
Miracle on Main Street
20,000 Men a Year
Grand Jury Secrets
Unexpected Father
The Zero Hour
Inside Story
The Rains Came
Up the River
Three Blind Mice
Battle of Broadway
The Jury's Secret
Change of Heart
Time Out for Murder
Little Miss Broadway
Dangerously Yours
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Slave Ship
Fifty Roads to Town
The Great Hospital Mystery
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
The Singing Marine
Love Is News
Laughing at Trouble
Craig's Wife
Star for a Night
Little Miss Nobody
The First Baby
The Country Doctor
Poor Little Rich Girl
Captain January
Private Number
Paddy O'Day
White Fang
We're Only Human
Navy Wife
Life Begins at Forty
McFadden´s Flats
One More Spring
Curly Top
Tomorrow's Youth
Blind Date
Most Precious Thing in Life
Let's Talk It Over
The Scarlet Empress
The White Parade
Bright Eyes
Design for Living
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
One Sunday Afternoon
Before Dawn
Emergency Call
Jennie Gerhardt
Child of Manhattan
Air Hostess
Murders in the Zoo
Bed of Roses
Young America
Back Street
Hot Saturday
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
The Restless Sex
After Five
The Goose Girl
Hypocrites
The Rug Maker's Daughter
The Rose of the Rancho
Ready Money
The Only Son
The Master Mind