The best Jane Darwell’s war movies

Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

15/10/1879- 13/08/1967
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jane Darwell’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jane Darwell.

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind
8.2/10
The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.

Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen
6.2/10
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
7.1/10
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway
6.1/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryWar
  • Release: 14/09/1942
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.

Tender Comrade

Tender Comrade
6.2/10
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.

On the Sunny Side

On the Sunny Side
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 13/02/1942
  • Character: Annie
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.

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