Jane Darwell — Actor (18)
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Love Is News (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Love Is News
director: Tay Garnett actor: Tyrone Power / Loretta Young …
other title: L'amore è novità / L'Amour en première page …
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Keeper of the Bees (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Keeper of the Bees
director: John Sturges actor: Michael Duane / Gloria Henry …
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.
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Surrender (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Surrender
director: Allan Dwan actor: Vera Ralston / John Carroll …
other title: Il diavolo nella carne
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
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It Happens Every Thursday (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
It Happens Every Thursday
director: Joseph Pevney actor: Loretta Young / John Forsythe …
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
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Tender Comrade (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tender Comrade
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Ginger Rogers / Robert Ryan …
other title: Eravamo tanto felici / Mulheres de Ninguém …
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.
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The Jury's Secret (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Jury's Secret
director: Edward Sloman actor: Kent Taylor / Fay Wray …
other title: Il segreto del giurato / Cour d'assises
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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A Life at Stake (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Life at Stake
director: Paul Guilfoyle actor: Angela Lansbury / Keith Andes …
other title: L'ultimo agguato / Key Man
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
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All That Money Can Buy (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
All That Money Can Buy
director: William Dieterle actor: Edward Arnold / Walter Huston …
other title: L'oro del demonio / Der Teufel und Daniel Webster …
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.