Movies by Jane Darwell
As part of the cast:
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We're Not Married (1952)
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore …
Directed by: Edmund Goulding
Five couples find out they're not legally married. Annabel (Marilyn Monroe) hurries to end her marriage to Jeff (David Wayne); the Gladwyns (Fred Allen and Ginger Rogers) host a radio…
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The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Cast: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan …
Directed by: Sidney Lanfield
When a small-time swindler with a sweet tooth for citrus candy (Bob Hope) accidentally cheats the biggest boss in town, he scrambles for a way to repay his looming debt by Christmas. With the…
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Three Husbands (1951)
Cast: Billie Burke, Howard Da Silva, Emlyn Williams …
Directed by: Irving Reis
When he reaches heaven, deceased playboy Maxwell Bard (Emlyn Williams) is granted one last wish. He has letters sent to three of his buddies (Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick and Robert…
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Caged (1950)
Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby …
Directed by: John Cromwell
Eleanor Parker earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in this gritty prison drama as Marie Allen, a frightened 19-year-old sentenced to prison for aiding in an armed robbery. Exposing…
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Wagon Master (1950)
Cast: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr. …
Directed by: John Ford
Tasked with leading a caravan of Mormons across the country en route to Utah territory, a church elder (Ward Bond) recruits a pair of horse traders (Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr.) to lead…
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3 Godfathers (1948)
Cast: Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, Guy Kibbee …
Directed by: John Ford
John Ford directs this first-rate retelling of Peter Kyne's allegorical novel. After holding up an Arizona bank, Bob Hightower (John Wayne) and his partners in crime (Harry Carey Jr. and…
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The Red Stallion (1947)
Cast: Robert Paige, Noreen Nash, Ted Donaldson …
Directed by: Lesley Selander
Young Joel Curtis (Ted Donaldson) raises orphaned foal Red under the loving eye of his Grandma Aggie (Jane Darwell). But when Aggie is forced to sell her ranch, Joel trains Red to become a…
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The Battle of Midway (1942)
Cast: Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell …
Directed by: John Ford
Acclaimed director John Ford shot this 1943 Oscar-winning documentary while serving in World War II. Narrated by actors including Henry Fonda, Ford's film captures Japanese fighter…
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All Through the Night (1942)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne …
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Talk about your weird coincidences: When grinning gambler Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) pays a call on a bakery to find out what's holding up his cheesecake delivery, he stumbles on a…
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The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Cast: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell …
Directed by: William Dieterle
When struggling New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone (James Craig) exclaims he would sell his soul for money and a decent crop, up pops the Mephistophelean Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston) in this…
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine …
Directed by: John Ford
In this towering classic of American cinema, common man Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) leads his family on a harrowing journey from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a better life in…
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Brigham Young (1940)
Cast: Dean Jagger, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell …
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
This Henry Hathaway-directed drama examines how the Mormons settled in what would become Salt Lake City, now the home base of their church. Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell play two of the…
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The Rains Came (1939)
Cast: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent …
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Playboy Tom Ransome (George Brent) finds his life in India turned upside down by the arrival of his former paramour, Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), now married to a nobleman. Nevertheless,…
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard …
Directed by: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood …
Director Victor Fleming's 1939 epic adaption of Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name stars Vivien Leigh as self-absorbed, headstrong Scarlett O'Hara, a Southern Belle who…
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Jesse James (1939)
Cast: John Carradine, Henry Fonda, Henry Hull …
Directed by: Henry King
Wild West brothers Frank and Jesse James (Henry Fonda and Tyrone Power) turn to a life of crime when a greedy railroad agent kills their mother in this action-filled mixture of fact and…
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Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Cast: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante …
Directed by: Irving Cummings
Betsy Brown Shea (Shirley Temple) is a talented orphan who boards in a hotel for entertainers. When grumpy owner Sarah (Edna May Oliver) threatens to boot her, Little Miss Broadway starts to…
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Captain January (1936)
Cast: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville …
Directed by: David Butler
Shirley Temple sparkles in this musical comedy about an orphan who fights to remain with her beloved guardian, a kind old lighthouse keeper, when authorities get wind of the girl's…
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Curly Top (1935)
Cast: Shirley Temple Black, John Boles, Shirley Temple …
Directed by: Irving Cummings
The original adorable moppet, Shirley Temple, is an orphan who, along with her beautiful older sister, is adopted by a Park Avenue bachelor millionaire (John Boles). Staying true to her…
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Will Rogers Collection: Life Begins at Forty (1935)
Cast: Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier …
Directed by: George Marshall
While trying to help a wrongly accused young man, small-town newspaper editor Kenesaw Clark (Will Rogers) uncovers corruption involving a local bigwig in this comedy. Convinced that Lee…
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One Night of Love (1934)
Cast: Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot …
Directed by: Victor Schertzinger
Mary Barrett (Grace Moore) is a talented young opera singer who catches the eye of Guilio Monteverdi (Tullio Carminati), a musical legend. Monteverdi becomes her mentor, and the two fall in…
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Bright Eyes (1934)
Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell …
Directed by: David Butler
Bright Eyes helped make Shirley Temple a box-office star and features her most famous song: "On the Good Ship Lollipop." The little darling of a group of aviators, Shirley splits her time…
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Design for Living / Peter Ibbetson (1933)
Cast: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins …
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch, Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper stars in this double feature that has the handsome actor portraying a painter immersed in a Parisian ménage à trois, and an architect in a forbidden romance that…