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Actor Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

  • Birth name:

    Mary Woodward

  • Date of Birth:

    13 August 1879 Palmyra, Missouri, USA

  • Height:

    5' 6" (1.68 m)

Biography:

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, she was almost 40 when she made her first film, a silent, in 1913. She easily made the transition from silents to talkies, and specialized in pla... more

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