Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6735 Hollywood Boulevard. Filming of "Marie-Antoinette" is due to commence in February 2005. She died from a heart attack in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. The forthcoming motion picture, scheduled for 2006, is to be directed by Sofia Coppola and is based on the biography of Marie-Antoinette by British historian, Lady Antonia Fraser. 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. More recently, Dunst has also committed to playing the role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette. 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 also lent her musical voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow.

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 made her singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, in which she performed two songs written by Marc Shaiman. Short, stout and plain faced she was quickly cast in a succession of films usually as the mother of one of the major characters. She and actor Jake Gyllenhaal recently broke up after dating for two years. 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. She won the 2002 Best Actress Silver Ombú at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow. She appeared in almost twenty films over the next two years before returning to the stage. Her most famous performance to date was as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man, reprised in Spider-Man 2.

She began her acting career in theater productions in Chicago and made her first film appearance in 1913. This movie features the frowned-upon-scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was then twenty nine. 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. Her breakthrough was in Interview with the Vampire, the film based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name and directed by Neil Jordan. Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American theater and film actress. She later made the transition to the big screen in her first film appearance, New York Stories, in 1989 and soon after landed a small part playing the daughter of Tom Hanks's character in The Bonfire of the Vanities, which also starred Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis. She also appeared as an extra on one episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live (which she would guest host years later).

She began her career at the age of three appearing in television commercials. Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey) is an American actress/singer. New York Stories (1989). The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

Greedy (1994). Interview with the Vampire (1994). High Strung (1994). Little Women (1994).

Jumanji (1995). Mother Night (1996). Anastasia (1997). Wag the Dog (1997).

True Heart (1997). Small Soldiers (1998). Strike! (1998). The Virgin Suicides (1999).

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). Dick (1999). The Crow: Salvation (2000). Luckytown (2000).

Bring It On (2000). Deeply (2000). All Forgotten (2000). Get Over It (2001).

Crazy/Beautiful (2001). The Cat's Meow (2001). Spider-Man (2002). Levity (2003).

Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Spider-Man 2 (2004). Wimbledon (2004).

Elizabethtown (2005). Marie-Antoinette (2006).