Jane Jennings was an American actress known for playing older motherly characters.[1][2] In a 1918 edition of Motion Picture News she is described as a sweet looking little woman. Famous Players was one of the studios where she worked.[3] She is on the cover of the sheet music for That Wonderful Mother of Mine (1918). By the 1925 film Self Defense, she had played 178 mother roles in films.[4]
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Filmography
edit- I Want to Forget (1918)
- The Girl Who Came Back (1918)[1]
- I Love You Just the Same, Sweet Adeline (1919)
- The Woman Under Oath (1919)
- As a Man Thinks (1919)
- The Climbers (1919) as Aunt Ruth
- The Lion and the Mouse (1919) as Mrs. Ryder[5]
- The Cost (1920)
- His House in Order (1920)
- The Gilded Lily (1921)[1]
- What Women Will Do (1921) as Mrs. Wade[1]
- The Case of Becky (1921) as Mrs. Arnold
- The Inner Chamber (1921) as Mrs. Robson
- What's Your Reputation Worth? (1921) as Mrs. Pettus
- The Heart of Maryland (1921) as Mrs. Claiborne
- Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)[6]
- Broadway Rose (1922) as Mrs. Lawrence
- A Pasteboard Crown (1922) as Mrs. Lawton
- The Challenge (1922) as Mrs. Hastings
- The Darling of the Rich (1922) as Jane Winship
- The Go-Getter (1923)
- Trouping with Ellen (1924) as Tony's Mother
- A Man Must Live (1925) as Mrs. Ross-Fayne
- The Little French Girl (1925)[7]
- Self Defense (1925)
- Enemies of Youth (1925)[8]
- False Pride (1925)[9]
- The Romance of a Million Dollars (1926)[10]
- Broken Homes (1926)[10]
- The Virgin Wife (1926) as Virginia Jamieson
- The Song and Dance Man (1926) as Ma Carroll
- Burnt Fingers (1927) as Mrs. Cabell
- Faithless Lover (1928) as Mrs. Seeton
References
edit- ^ a b c d Robinson, Herbert (January 21, 1922). "Jane Jennings: Heiress". Pantomime. p. 8.
- ^ Blenton, Billie (September 30, 1922). "A Star Mother and Her Brood". Movie Weekly.
- ^ "Motion Picture News". Motion Picture News. February 22, 1919 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Gossip of Stage and Screen". Newspapers.com. Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio. December 13, 1925. p. 81. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
- ^ "The Lion and the Mouse (1919)". web.stanford.edu.
- ^ "Jane Jennings movies".
- ^ Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association (1907). The Moving picture world. California State Library. New York : The World Photographic Publishing Company.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ^ Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association (September 5, 1925). ""False Pride," Second MacFadden Production, Has Been Completed". The Moving Picture World. California State Library. New York : The World Photographic Publishing Company. p. 92.
- ^ a b "Jane Jennings". BFI. Archived from the original on February 22, 2020.
External links
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Media related to Jane Jennings at Wikimedia Commons- Jane Jennings at IMDb
