Jane Darwell - biography

“I’ve played Henry Fonda’s mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him ‘son’ and he calls me ‘Ma’, just to save time.”

Jane Darwell has appeared in the following films:
Rose of the Rancho (1914)
The Man on the Box (1914)
The Master Mind (1914)
The Only Son (1914)
After Five (1915)
Fighting Caravans (1931)
Huckleberry Finn (1931)
Back Street (1932)
Hot Saturday (1932)
Young America (1932)
No One Man (1932)
Ann Vickers (1933)
Bed of Roses (1933)
Design for Living (1933)
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
King for a Night (1933)
One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
Only Yesterday (1933)
The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)
Aggie Appleby Maker of Men (1933)
Emergency Call (1933)
Blind Date (1934)
Change of Heart (1934)
Cross Country Cruise (1934)
Embarrassing Moments (1934)
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Finishing School (1934)
Happiness Ahead (1934)
Heat Lightning (1934)
Journal of a Crime (1934)
Let’s Talk It Over (1934)
Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
Once to Every Woman (1934)
The Firebird (1934)
The Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Wake Up and Dream (1934)
Wonder Bar (1934)
Metropolitan (1935)
Paddy O’Day (1935)
One More Spring (1935)
Private Number (1936)
Ramona (1936)
Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
Lest We Forget (1937)
Love Is News (1937)
Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
The Singing Marine (1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
The Jury’s Secret (1938)
Three Blind Mice (1938)
Battle of Broadway (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Jesse James (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Unexpected Father (1939)
Miracle on Main Street (1939)
Brigham Young (1940)
Chad Hanna (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
All Through the Night (1941)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Men of Texas (1942)
On the Sunny Side (1942)
The Battle of Midway (1942)
Tender Comrade (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Reckless Age (1944)
The Impatient Years (1944)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
The Dark Horse (1946)
Three Wise Fools (1946)
Keeper of the Bees (1947)
The Red Stallion (1947)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Surrender (1950)
The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady (1950)
Wagon Master (1950)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
We’re Not Married! (1952)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Hit the Deck (1955)
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Hound-Dog Man (1959)
Mary Poppins (1964)