Caption: "The Grapes of Wrath" O.Z. Whitehead, Frank Sully, Henry Fonda, Charley Grapewin, Zeffie Tilbury, Director John Ford, Jane Darwell, Darryl Hickman, Russell Simpson, Shirley Mills, Frank Darien, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon, Eddie Quillan 1940 Twentieth Century Fox
Actress
Born: October 15, 1879
Star sign: Libra
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Known for: The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Gone with the Wind (1939), Mary Poppins (1964), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Source: IMDB
Missouri-born Jane Darwell was the daughter of a railroad president and grew up on a ranch in Missouri. She nursed ambitions to be an opera singer, but put it off because of her father's disapproval (she eventually changed her name to Darwell from the family name of Woodward so as not to "sully" the family name). Making her stage debut at age 33, ...