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By the end of her career, she had appeared in more than 170 films, including Huckleberry Finn (1931), Jesse James (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), and My Darling Clementine (1946).
Jane Darwell (1879-1967) was an American actress who played Dolly Merriwether in Gone With the Wind. She appeared in no less than nine films that year. She had previously played in Tom Sawyer, the remake of which featured fellow Gone With the Wind actor Jackie Moran.
Jane Darwell. Actress: The Grapes of Wrath. Missouri-born Jane Darwell was born Patti Woodard, the daughter of William Robert Woodard, president of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen (Booth) Woodard, in Palmyra, Missouri, where she grew up on a ranch .
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- Palmyra, Missouri, USA
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming.
Had appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Gone with the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) and Mary Poppins (1964). Of those, Gone with the Wind (1939) is a winner in the category.
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- August 13, 1967
Gone with the Wind - Full Cast & Crew. This Best Picture is an epic about life in the South before, during and after the Civil War, and centers on a fiery, spoiled belle and her obsession...
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Some of her best-regarded films were The Ox-Bow Incident, Jesse James, Gone with the Wind, Huckleberry Finn, Back Street, Tender Comrade, and Sunday Dinner for a Soldier. Darwell died of a heart attack at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, on August 13, 1967, at the age of eighty-seven.