For her role in which film did Jane Darwell win the 'Oscar' for Best Supporting Actress in 1940 when aged 61?
"California. Jane Darwell Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard, October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than one hundred major motion pictures spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"", for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Disney's musical family film, ""Mary Poppins"". Darwell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of"
"request that the bird woman, though a non-speaking part (except for one line, stating the first line of the song's chorus) be a cameo by one of his favorite character actresses, Academy Award winner Jane Darwell (perhaps best remembered for playing Henry Fonda's mother in the 1940 movie, The Grapes of Wrath). In her mid-eighties and semi-retired from acting (she took episodic guest appearances about once per year in television shows), Darwell had recently moved into the Motion Picture Country Home because of her advanced age and feebleness. Needing neither the money nor the screen credit, she declined the role."
"Director' Oscar, and 'Best Supporting Actress' for Jane Darwell's tour-de-force portrayal of Ma Joad. During production, Ford returned to the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., to film a number of key shots, including the pivotal image depicting the migrant family's first full view of the fertile farmland of California, which was represented by the San Fernando Valley as seen from the Iverson Ranch. ""The Grapes of Wrath"" was followed by two less successful and lesser known films. ""The Long Voyage Home"" (1940) was, like ""Stagecoach"", made with Walter Wanger through United Artists. Adapted from four plays by Eugene O'Neill,"
"admitted to the hospital in 1982. Gale Sondergaard Gale Sondergaard (born Edith Holm Sondergaard; February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress. Sondergaard began her acting career in theater, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in ""Anthony Adverse"" (1936). She regularly played supporting roles in films during the late 1930s and 1940s, including ""The Cat and the Canary"" (1939), ""The Mark of Zorro"" (1940) and ""The Letter"" (1940). For her role in ""Anna and the King of Siam"" (1946), she"
"in 1940. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but lost to Jane Darwell for ""The Grapes of Wrath"". Mrs. Danvers would later be played by several actresses for television adaptations, such as Dorothy Black in 1947, Nina Foch in 1962, Anna Massey in 1979, Diana Rigg in 1997, and by Mariangela Melato in an Italian language adaptation. In the book, Mrs. Danvers is given a back story. In contrast, the Hitchcock and all subsequent film adaptations never mention her past. Furthermore, the book depicts her as having a ""skull's face"" with high cheekbones and sunken"
"raised as a Capwell. This resulted in her receiving a Supporting Actress Emmy Nomination although her screen time afterwards diminished to infrequent appearances. After leaving the series, she was succeeded in the role by the quarter-century younger American actress Janis Paige. Her last movies were ""The Booth"" (1985) and ""Impure Thoughts"" (1985). Anderson was married twice and declared that ""neither experience was a jolly holiday"": Anderson loved Santa Barbara, California, and spent much of her life there. She died there, of pneumonia, in 1992, aged 94. Anderson was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)"
"to bring up as a single mother. She and her husband were instrumental in raising charity funds for the American Theatre Wing during World War II by volunteering to take portraits of Hollywood stars to aid in the American war effort. Sherman was a muse of Andy Warhol who filmed her with filmmaker Paul Morrissey in the 1970s. She also appeared in the Abel Ferrara film ""Ms. 45"" in 1981. She was a model as well as photographer and was photographed by Francesco Scavullo and symbolized aging gracefully at age 60 years old in his book ""On Beauty"" in the"
"and stage star DeWolf Hopper). In 1941, Jewell married actor Paul Marion, who was then a private in the Army. They separated in 1943 and were divorced on May 12, 1944. Jewell was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election. Jewell died in Los Angeles, California, on April 5, 1972, aged 64, from suicide after taking an overdose of barbiturates. Her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. In 1960, Jewell was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures. The star is located at 1560 Vine"
"an actress who often succeeded Hull in her Broadway roles, as her sister. Josephine Hull died on March 12, 1957, aged 80, from a cerebral hemorrhage. Josephine Hull Marie Josephine Hull (née Sherwood; January 3, 1877 – March 12, 1957) was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie ""Harvey"" (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as"
"a 1936 John Ford film, starring Katharine Hepburn as Mary, Queen of Scots, Fredric March as the Earl of Bothwell, and Florence Eldridge as Elizabeth. The play had been a hit on Broadway starring Helen Hayes in the title role. His play ""The Wingless Victory"" was written in verse and premiered in 1936 with famous Broadway actress Katharine Cornell in the lead role. It received mixed reviews. Honorary awards include the Gold Medal in Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954, an honorary doctor of literature degree from Columbia University in 1946, and an honorary doctor"
"film star began to rise. She starred in ""My Son John"" (1952) and ""Anastasia"" (1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as an elderly stowaway in the disaster film ""Airport"" (1970). She followed that up with several roles in Disney films such as ""Herbie Rides Again"", ""One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing"" and ""Candleshoe"". Her performance in ""Anastasia"" was considered a comeback—she had suspended her career for several years due to her daughter Mary's death and her husband's failing health. In 1955, the Fulton Theatre was renamed for her. In the 1980s, business interests"
"Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Beth Morgan in the 1941 film ""How Green Was My Valley"". She also had memorable roles in the 1941 retelling of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", ""It Happened in Flatbush"" (1942), ""Jane Eyre"" (1943), ""The Lodger"" (1944), ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" (1944), ""The Spiral Staircase"" (1946), ""The Fabulous Dorseys"" (1947), and the original ""Cheaper by the Dozen"" (1950). Allgood became a United States citizen in 1945 and died of a heart attack in 1950 in Woodland Hills, California. Sara Allgood Sara Ellen Allgood (29 November 1879 – 13 September 1950)"
"Josephine Hull Marie Josephine Hull (née Sherwood; January 3, 1877 – March 12, 1957) was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie ""Harvey"" (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood. Hull was born January 3, 1877, in Newtonville, Massachusetts, one of four children born to William H. Sherwood and Mary Elizabeth (""Minnie"") Tewkesbury, but"
"the influence of the American Office of War Information, the film attempted to undermine Hollywood's prewar depiction of Britain as a glamorous bastion of social privilege, anachronistic habits and snobbery in favour of more democratic, modern images. To this end, the social status enjoyed by the Miniver family in the print version was downgraded and increased attention was given to the erosion of class barriers under the pressures of wartime. In 1942, the film won an Oscar in the Best Picture category and both Greer Garson and Teresa Wright won an Oscar in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress"
"Madeleine Carroll Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success she was the highest-paid actress in the world, earning a then staggering $250,000 in 1938. Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935). She is also noted for abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz, to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced and maimed by the war. Carroll was born at"
"reviews from critics and appeared on several top ten lists for 2005. It was praised for its special effects, performances, sense of spectacle and comparison to the 1933 original. It won three Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects. In 1933, during the Great Depression, New York City vaudeville actress Ann Darrow is hired by financially troubled filmmaker Carl Denham to star in a film with Herb, Carl's cameraman, Mike, Carl's soundman, Preston, Carl's assistant, and actor Bruce Baxter. Ann learns her favorite playwright, Jack Driscoll, is the screenwriter. As their tramp steamer, the SS"
"Four years later her career was nearly destroyed due to scandal. In 1936 Astor was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband, in a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to greater success on screen, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ""The Great Lie"" (1941). Astor was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to work in film, television and on stage until her retirement in 1964. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990 that ""when two"
"aged 96 from pneumonia following a short illness. Joyce Redman Joyce Olivia Redman (9 December 1915 – 10 May 2012) was an Anglo-Irish actress. She received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 1963 film ""Tom Jones"" and the 1965 film ""Othello"". Joyce Redman was born in Northumberland and grew up in County Mayo, Ireland. She was born into an Anglo-Irish family, and educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters. She trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her acting roles were primarily in the"
"90. She was survived by her two stepsons and extended family. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard. The Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, was named in Trevor's honor. Her Oscar and Emmy statuettes are on display in the Arts Plaza, next to the Claire Trevor Theatre. Claire Trevor Claire Trevor (born Claire Wemlinger; March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in over 60 films, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting"
"of Los Angeles. Jan Sterling Jan Sterling (born Jane Sterling Adriance, April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American actress of stage, film and television. Most active in films during the 1950s (immediately prior to which she had joined the Actors Studio), Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ""The High and the Mighty"" (1954), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance. Her best performance is often recognized as the ""sluttish, opportunistic wife"" opposite Kirk Douglas in Billy Wilder's 1951 ""Ace in the"
"fatale"" in her first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, called her his favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the Technicolor musical ""Cover Girl"" (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars. In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death at age 68. The public disclosure and discussion of her illness drew attention to Alzheimer's, which was largely unknown by most people at the time, and"
"70th birthday, and is written as a ""flashback"" by the old author. In 1946 the novel was adapted into a film ""Caravan"" by Gainsborough Pictures as part of the Gainsborough melodramas sequence of films. The film was directed by Arthur Crabtree and starred Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford and Dennis Price. Caravan (novel) Caravan is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Lady Eleanor Smith first published in 1942. A young Englishman James Darrell goes on the road living with the Romany people in England while trying to make enough money as a writer to marry his sweetheart Oriana."
"the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In addition, it won four Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress in a Drama (MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), and Best Screenplay (Brooks). Widowed Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) keeps several suitors at arm's length, focusing instead on her close, but controlling, relationship with daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Anxious to escape her mother, Emma marries young college professor Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) over her mother's objections, moves away, and has three children. Despite their frequent spats and difficulty getting along, Emma and Aurora have a tie between them that cannot be"
"by Dustin Hoffman. The film was widely praised by critics and was one of Dunaway's few commercial successes at this point. That same year, she appeared in the lead role in ""Puzzle of a Downfall Child"" (1970), an experimental drama directed by Jerry Schatzberg and inspired by the life of model Anne St. Marie. The film failed to generate commercial interest, though it earned for Dunaway a second Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. The film remained in obscurity over 40 years, until it was revived at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in honor of Dunaway."
"the Best Actress category for her lead (or supporting) role in ""Hud"". The movie also won for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas and Best Cinematography – Black and White. It was the second and, to date, last film to win two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (the other being ""The Miracle Worker""). At age 71 Margaret Rutherford set a then record for the oldest winner for Best Supporting Actress. Coincidentally, the year before Patty Duke set a then record for the youngest winner ever. Rutherford was also only the 2nd Oscar winner to be over the"
"the 1940 film, ""Pride and Prejudice"". Garson starred with Joan Crawford in ""When Ladies Meet"" in 1941 (a poorly received and sanitized re-make of a Pre-Code version of the same name, which had starred Ann Harding and Myrna Loy) and that same year became a major box-office star with the sentimental Technicolor drama ""Blossoms in the Dust"", which brought her the first of five consecutive Best Actress Oscar nominations, tying Bette Davis's 1938–1942 record, which still stands. Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a strong British wife and mother in the middle"
"period, Cromwell toured the country, even meeting President Herbert Hoover in Washington, D.C. Cromwell by then had maintained a deep friendship with Marie Dressler, which continued until her death from cancer in 1934. Dressler was nominated for a second Best Actress award for her 1932 portrayal of the title role in ""Emma"". With that film, Dressler demonstrated her profound generosity to other performers: Dressler personally insisted that her studio bosses cast Cromwell on a loan-out in the lead opposite her — it was another break that helped sustain his rising status in Hollywood. ""Emma"" also starred Myrna Loy in one"
"both awards since the latter category was reintroduced in 1992) while both McDormand and Rockwell won the Lead Actress and Supporting Actor awards respectively. It was nominated for four awards at the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning three, including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. At the 90th Academy Awards it received seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Frances McDormand, Best Original Screenplay for Martin McDonagh and two Best Supporting Actor nominations for both Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson. McDormand and Rockwell took home their respective awards. It was named one of the top"
"Jan Sterling Jan Sterling (born Jane Sterling Adriance, April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American actress of stage, film and television. Most active in films during the 1950s (immediately prior to which she had joined the Actors Studio), Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ""The High and the Mighty"" (1954), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance. Her best performance is often recognized as the ""sluttish, opportunistic wife"" opposite Kirk Douglas in Billy Wilder's 1951 ""Ace in the Hole"". Although her"
"Gale Sondergaard Gale Sondergaard (born Edith Holm Sondergaard; February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress. Sondergaard began her acting career in theater, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in ""Anthony Adverse"" (1936). She regularly played supporting roles in films during the late 1930s and 1940s, including ""The Cat and the Canary"" (1939), ""The Mark of Zorro"" (1940) and ""The Letter"" (1940). For her role in ""Anna and the King of Siam"" (1946), she was nominated for her second Best"
"received a Golden Globe Award for her performance and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Pete Townshend was also nominated for an Oscar for his work in scoring and adapting the music for the film. The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. In 1975, the film won the award for Rock Movie of the Year in the First Annual Rock Music Awards. In the prologue, set in 1945, a montage displays the honeymoon of Captain Walker (Robert Powell) and his wife, Nora (Ann-Margret). After his"
"never met. On the first day of production, the actresses quickly got along and became lifelong friends. Tyrone Power and Don Ameche were considered for the leading roles, but scheduling conflicts took them out of the running. Tin Pan Alley (film) Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable as vaudeville singers/sisters and John Payne and Jack Oakie as songwriters in the years before World War I. Alfred Newman received the 1940 Academy Award for Best Musical Score for his work on the film, the first of his nine"
"4th Academy Awards The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the ceremony, nine-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in ""Skippy"", fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler. When Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother’s lap. ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It"