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Jane Darwell
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.1673
73
1940s
2.6864
36
1950s
2.1933
22
1960s
2.1646
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.4719
2.4719
Jane Darwell Movie Rankings
1
3.8877On the eve of the American Civil War, Scarlett O'Hara meets Rhett Butler. Amongst a war torn Atlanta, Scarlett must save her family's burning plantation and accept the possibility of never seeing Rhett again. ...more about Gone with the Wind
DVD from $8.99
(17 sellers)
2
3.6805Based on the John Steinbeck novel, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) is a man just released from prison, but when he returns home to his family farm, he finds it deserted. It seems the depression and the drought has forced the farmers to find greener pastures. ...more about Grapes of Wrath
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
DVD from $6.34
(14 sellers)
3
3.3838Two banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them. A change in the wind blows in an assertive nanny who matches the qualifications of the children and not the father. ...more about Mary Poppins
DVD from $16.78
(15 sellers)
4
3.1636
Three outlaws, on the run after robbing a bank, encounter a woman in labor in the middle of the desert. Although the child lives, the woman dies. To appease her dying wish the three promise to deliver the baby to safety, even if it risks their own lives. ...more about 3 Godfathers
DVD from $9.99
(10 sellers)
5
3.0181
A local farmer has been killed and his cattle stolen. The towns people ban together to catch the murdering thief. A couple of traveling cowboys get wrapped up in the comotion and join the mob hoping to serve justice. ...more about Ox-Bow Incident
DVD from $4.86
(11 sellers)
6
2.9206
Wyatt Earp and his brothers move to Tombstone to live the lives of quiet farmers, but when a band of outlaws kills their youngest brother, Earp and his siblings acquire the sheriff's badge and promise to hold them accountable for their actions. All this leads up to the famous shootout at the O.K. ...more about My Darling Clementine
DVD from $4.86
(11 sellers)
7
2.8161
A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. Based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. ...more about Devil and Daniel Webster
DVD from $23.99
(10 sellers)
8
2.6830
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary. ...more about Curly Top
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.6658
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. ...more about Fourteen Hours
DVD from $6.59
(10 sellers)
10
2.6652
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris, already Mrs. Mississippi and ready to enter the Mrs. ...more about We're Not Married!
DVD from $6.88
(9 sellers)
11
2.6391
An orphan (Temple) is provisionally adopted by the manager (Ellis) of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner (Oliver) doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage. ...more about Little Miss Broadway
DVD from $8.56
(8 sellers)
12
2.6015
Frightened 19-year-old Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery. ...more about Caged
DVD from $8.63
(9 sellers)
13
2.4748
Hugo and Biff were friends until they met Virginia. Biff could think of no one but Virginia, but she would never be happy with a big slow bully. So she married Hugo and Biff married Amy just because his Virginia got married. ...more about One Sunday Afternoon
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.4688
An aging politician (Spencer Tracy) tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. ...more about Last Hurrah
DVD from $14.84
(9 sellers)
15
2.4656
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. ...more about Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.4200
Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper (Kibbee) who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives. Buddy Ebsen dances "At The Codfish Ball" with Shirley. ...more about Captain January
DVD from $8.65
(11 sellers)
17
2.3835
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. ...more about Singing Marine
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.3469
Two Americans sharing a flat in Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and painter George Curtis, fall for free-spirited Gilda Farrell. ...more about Design for Living
DVD from $16.37
(12 sellers)
20
2.2784
The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. ...more about Jesse James
DVD from $9.59
(12 sellers)
22
2.2617
When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple her mother used to work for. ...more about Bright Eyes
DVD from $9.99
(7 sellers)
24
2.2419
"Dakota," a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. ...more about Stage Door Canteen
DVD from $4.08
(5 sellers)
25
2.1095
Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Now that he lay dying a painful death, he trades the location of the money to Dr. Cornelius for a shot to end his suffering. When Mrs. ...more about Before Dawn
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.1095
Country boy (Fonda) joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider (Lamour). Later he falls in love with another circus runaway (Darnell). ...more about Chad Hanna
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.1072
Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton leaving the bakery. When her boss Marty's partner Joe is murdered, Leda and her accompanist Pepi disappear. ...more about All Through the Night
DVD from $38.35
(11 sellers)
28
2.0533
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. ...more about It Happens Every Thursday
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.0456
Edgar Allen Poe (John Shepperd) led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan (Mary Howard), whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire to write. ...more about Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.9862
The true story of the famous Mormon leader, Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. ...more about Brigham Young
DVD from $4.11
(11 sellers)
31
1.9177
It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O'Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. All three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in a single house as bachelors. ...more about Three Wise Fools
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.8873
Little Barbara gets lost and is then picked up by entertainers who make her part of their act. Barbara's father hears the act on the radio and finds his lost daughter. ...more about Poor Little Rich Girl
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.8646
Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. ...more about Bigamist
DVD from $4.45
(6 sellers)
34
1.8264
Ginger Rogers, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. ...more about Tender Comrade
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.7442
In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank. ...more about Life Begins at Forty
DVD from $38.39
(9 sellers)
37
1.6424
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. ...more about Excuse My Dust
- Not Available on DVD
38
1.5602
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally steers Moose Moran's girl away from a winning bet, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry gangster. ...more about Lemon Drop Kid
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
39
1.5191
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. ...more about Sun Shines Bright
- Not Available on DVD
40
1.5176
Protesting innocence (of course), 21-year-old Anne Carson, convicted as an accomplice to a bank robbery, finds herself in prison with 3 equally glamorous cellmates in form-fitting uniforms: tough Jenny, unbalanced Dorothy, and deceptive, sweet-talking ...more about Girls in Prison
- Not Available on DVD
41
Jack London tale of a woman (Muir) and weakling brother (Beck) who inherit a mine. ...more about White Fang
- Not Available on DVD
43
Pilot (Scott) disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year. ...more about 20
- Not Available on DVD
44
When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married. ...more about Affair with a Stranger
- Not Available on DVD
49
Janet Gaynor and James Dunn and their close friends Charles Farrell and Ginger Rogers graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work. ...more about Change of Heart
- Not Available on DVD
50
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. ...more about Child of Manhattan
- Not Available on DVD
52
A detective (Romero) poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks (Brooks). ...more about Dangerously Yours
- Not Available on DVD
57
A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men. ...more about Fifty Roads to Town
- Not Available on DVD
58
By the time daughter (Deane) and son-in-low (Downs) have their second child the mother-in-law (Gateson) learns not to be so domineering. ...more about First Baby
- Not Available on DVD
60
Assorted citizens of Summerfield, including Gildersleeve of radio fame, sit on a jury in the trial of bank robber Louie Barton. Through coincidence, Gildersleeve is wrongly suspected of bribe-taking. ...more about Gildersleeve's Bad Day
- Not Available on DVD
63
Small-town eccentric Throckmorton Gildersleeve (of radio fame) has a few problems: Judge Hooker continually questions his guardianship of niece Margie and nephew Leroy; the judge's predatory sister Amelia has matrimony in mind. ...more about Great Gildersleeve
- Not Available on DVD
64
The first of three films made featuring the Nurse Sarah Keate character created by Mignon Eberhardt. This 20th Century-Fox film was followed by two from Warner Bros. ...more about Great Hospital Mystery
- Not Available on DVD
65
Joan's parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. So on New Years Eve, she goes out to a club where she meets Bob. ...more about Happiness Ahead
- Not Available on DVD
66
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. ...more about He Couldn't Take It
- Not Available on DVD
68
Rich, nerdish Tommy Van Steel seldom leaves his home gadget workshop, but somehow has become engaged to socialite Ellen Cromwell, who treats him badly. ...more about Highways by Night
- Not Available on DVD
69
Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's father is a Rear Admiral... ...more about Hit the Deck
- Not Available on DVD
72
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. ...more about Huckleberry Finn
- Not Available on DVD
73
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home wherethe GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. ...more about I Live in Grosvenor Square
- Not Available on DVD
74
Standing before a divorce court judge (Edgar Buchanan) are Sergeant Andy Anderson (Lee Bowman) and Janie Anderson (Jean Arthur) asking him to dissolve their marriage. ...more about Impatient Years
- Not Available on DVD
79
Bill Sheldon (Larry J. Blake as Larry Blake) has a grudge against Midland City newspaper publisher Brandon Williams (Samuel S. ...more about Jury's Secret
- Not Available on DVD
80
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine (Michael Duane), who is seeking a divorce from his wife. ...more about Keeper of the Bees
- Not Available on DVD
81
On their Wedding day, Kathleen and Standish McNeil are followed home by Kid Athens, (a wanted murderer), and Policeman Martin French (sent to get Kathleen as a witness). ...more about Ladies of the Big House
- Not Available on DVD
82
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a smalltown newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is. ...more about Laughing at Trouble
- Not Available on DVD
83
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her. ...more about Let's Talk It Over
- Not Available on DVD
85
A girl gets into trouble at her orphanage and is sent away to reform school. She escapes en route but is found and brought to trial. Her father is the prosecutor. ...more about Little Miss Nobody
- Not Available on DVD
89
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her. ...more about Metropolitan
- Not Available on DVD
90
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try and arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the girl finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture. ...more about Miracle on Main Street
- Not Available on DVD
93
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way. ...more about Nancy Steele Is Missing!
- Not Available on DVD
99
Withers is an immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials. ...more about Paddy O'Day
- Not Available on DVD
102
An Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. ...more about Rains Came
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
103
Half-Indian girl (Young) brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house (Taylor) against his family's wishes and loves another Indian (Ameche) employed by the household. ...more about Ramona
- Not Available on DVD
106
Yong Joel Curtis (Ted Donaldson) finds an orphaned colt in the woods, whom he names "Red" and raises and trains him. ...more about Red Stallion
- Not Available on DVD
107
Arthur Cameron (Pierre Watkin) has spent many years establishing the mountain forest community of New Horizon for underprivileged boys. His chief assistant is Hattie Hickory (Jane Darwell) who cooks and acts as a foster mother for the boy. ...more about Redwood Forest Trail
- Not Available on DVD
110
Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he finds the same old setup, including slave trade. ...more about Slave Ship
- Not Available on DVD
111
Family bickering features young daughter (Withers) favored by her father (Kellaway) and older daughter (Wright) by favored by snobbish mother (Alexander). ...more about Small Town Deb
- Not Available on DVD
114
Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Alone and depressed, he meets old flame Norma, and one thing leads to another. ...more about There's Always Tomorrow
- Not Available on DVD
115
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. ...more about Thieves Fall Out
- Not Available on DVD
116