Jane Darwell: Ma Joad and "Mary Poppins"
Some props this morning for Oscar winning character actress Jane Darwell (Patti Woodard or Woodward, 1879-1967). Stout, sturdy Darwell was a familiar face on screens for a half century in roles ranging from frontier mothers to nurturing nursemaids to cross landladies. The daughter of a railroad magnate, Darwell considered becoming a circus equestienne, an opera […]