Biographies: Jane Crowley - Actor

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An American actress who was born in Urbana, Ohio, USA on November 28, 1888 as Jane Genevieve Crowley and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 7, 1970. Her most important works are A Son of the Plains (1931). She began her career at the vaudeville theater in 1905 in Manhattan and moved to sing in nightclubs in Chicago in 1910. She ventured to Hollywood in 1919, until the famous director and producer John Ford involved her in all his films over 25 years to play additional roles such as a city woman, villager, party guest, salon singer, sworn, citizen, settler, immigrant, and spectator in the street. She played an immigrant in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Kate in The Long Voyage Home (1940), and How Green Was My Valley (1941). Her last appearance was in Rosemary's Baby (1968). She died in 1970 at the age of 91.

• 31 October 2021
• Christina Aziz