Phoebe Cates

In 1991 she was going to participate in Father of the Bride, but became pregnant and could not act in the movie. Jane Darwell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6735 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1989 she married actor Kevin Kline. She died from a heart attack in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. She was famous in the early and middle 1980s for her acting in a handful of teen-orientated movies, and her face made the covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat, 16, Teen Beat and others. Always popular within the film industry, her final role as the old woman feeding the birds in Mary Poppins was personally given to her by Walt Disney. She is also the god-daughter of actress Joan Crawford. By the end of her career she had appeared in more than 170 films, including Huckleberry Finn (1931), Roman Scandals (1933), Jesse James, The Rains Came, Gone With the Wind (all 1939), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), My Darling Clementine (1946) and Caged (1950).

She is a native of New York City, where she attended the Children's professional Acting School. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), a role she was given at the insistence of the film's star, Henry Fonda. She is the daughter of director Joseph Cates and the niece of Gilbert Cates, also a director. Short, stout and plain faced she was quickly cast in a succession of films usually as the mother of one of the major characters. Phoebe Belle Katz Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress who, by her description, has retired from acting to become a full-time mother. After a 15 year absence from films, she resumed her film career in 1930 with a role in Tom Sawyer, and her career as a Hollywood character actress began. The Anniversary Party (2001). She appeared in almost twenty films over the next two years before returning to the stage.

Princess Caraboo (1994). She began her acting career in theater productions in Chicago and made her first film appearance in 1913. Bodies, Rest and Motion (1993). Born Patti Woodward in Palmyra, Missouri, Darwell originally intended to become a circus performer, however her family objected and she compromised by becoming an actress. Drop Dead Fred (1991). Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American theater and film actress. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).

I Love You to Death (1990). Shag (1989). Bright Lights, Big City (1988). Date with an Angel (1987).

Gremlins (1984). Lace (1984, TV). Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Paradise (1982).