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- Missouri-born Jane Darwell was born Patti Woodard, the daughter of William Robert Woodard, president of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen (Booth) Woodard, in Palmyra, Missouri, where she grew up on a ranch . She nursed ambitions to be an opera singer, but put it off because of her father's disapproval (she eventually changed her name to Darwell from the family name of Woodard so as not to "sully" the family name). Making her stage debut at age 33, she was almost 40 when she made her first film, a silent, in 1913.
She easily made the transition from silents to talkies, and specialized in playing kindly, grandmotherly types. Her most famous role was as Ma Joad, the glue that held the Joad family together, in the classic The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which she won the Academy Award. She was, however, memorably cast against type in The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), as the shrewish, cackling Ma Grier, a lynch mob leader, and again in Caged (1950), as the unsympathetic prison matron in charge of the isolation ward.
She made over 200 films. Her last, Mary Poppins (1964), was made at the express request of Walt Disney; she had retired and was living at the Motion Picture Country Home and Disney came out personally to ask her to appear in the film, after which she went back into retirement. She died in 1967 after suffering a stroke and a heart attack, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. - Camera and Electrical Department
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Adam Austin was born on 29 June 1965 in Palmyra, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Spider-Man (2002) and Man of Steel (2013).- Khalid Al-As'ad was born on 2 March 1934 in Palmyra, Syria. He died on 18 August 2015 in Tadmor, Homs Governorate, Syria.
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Stephen S. Norton was born on 13 October 1877 in Palmyra, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Husband Hunters (1927), The Double Room Mystery (1917) and Stranded in Paris (1926). He died on 14 March 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- William T. Sampson was born on 8 February 1840 in Palmyra, New York, USA. He died on 6 May 1902 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Finley Hunt was born on 24 January 1928 in Palmyra, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Running Wild (1973). He died on 26 January 2008 in Stony Brook, New York, USA.