FrameThrower · Actors · Jane Darwell
Jane Darwell
2 films · 111 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1940–1942
Born 15 October 1879 · Palmyra, Missouri, USA · died 13 August 1967
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jane Darwell was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 111 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1940–1942
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1941
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 111 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jane takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 40% low key — the look of the work Jane takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 111 frames from Jane Darwell's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.