“When I gotta feelin’ Gloves, I gotta a feelin’”

She was born on this date in 1879… Before her death on August 13, 1967 at the age of 87 she appeared in over 200 films and a handful of television shows…she also spent time on Broadway. Her career spanned from 1909 until 1964. Some of the more memorable films include Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Roman Scandals, Gone With the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath, All Through the Night, The Great Gildersleeve, Gildersleeve’s Bad Day, Captain Tugboat Annie, The Lemon Drop Kid and Mary Poppins… She played mother to some of Hollywood’s greatest leading men including Henry Fonda and Humphrey Bogart. On television she appeared on such shows as “Fireside Theatre”, “Four Star Playhouse”, “The Ford Television Theatre”, “Climax!”, “Studio 57”, “Playhouse 90”, “Studio One”, “Maverick”, “Wagon Train”, “Lassie”, “Burke’s Law” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.” Even now, 42 years after her passing…on the occasion of what would’ve been her 130th birthday… In Memoriam Remembers: Jane Darwell