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Jane Darwell

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Actress

The Resume

    (October 15, 1879-August 13, 1967)
    Birth Name was Patti Woodward
    Died in Woodland Hills, California
    Won the 1940 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (The Grapes of Wrath)
    Acted in 'At Shiloh (1913),' 'Hypocrites (1915),' 'Tom Sawyer (1930),' 'Huckleberry Finn (1931),' 'Bed of Roses (1933),' 'Life Begins at Forty (1935),' 'Gone with the Wind (1939),' 'Untamed (1940),' 'All Through the Night (1942),' 'Music in Manhattan (1944),' 'Excuse My Dust (1951)' and 'Mary Poppins (1964)'

Why she might be annoying:

    She was described as being 'plump and dowdy.'
    She resided in the Motion Picture Country Retirement Home and Hospital.
    She was cast as Henry Fonda's mother so often that he called her mother all the time.
    Walt Disney himself sought her for her role in 'Mary Poppins.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was in over two hundred films.
    She performed on Broadway.
    She won the 1940 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
    She may be a descendant of President Andrew Jackson.
    She was about to start a film at age eighty-eight, when she died.

Credit: Skunk Butt


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 19 Votes: 5.26% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 92 Votes: 41.30% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 161 Votes: 61.49% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 31 Votes: 19.35% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 45.16% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 115 Votes: 44.35% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 129 Votes: 42.64% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 226 Votes: 42.04% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 239 Votes: 41.84% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 399 Votes: 49.12% Annoying