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    Jane Jennings

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    Jane Jennings
    Jennings (on right) in still from A Pasteboard Crown (1922)

    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]

    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]

    1. ^ a b c d Robinson, Herbert (January 21, 1922). "Jane Jennings: Heiress". Pantomime. p. 8.
    2. ^ Blenton, Billie (September 30, 1922). "A Star Mother and Her Brood". Movie Weekly.
    3. ^ "Motion Picture News". Motion Picture News. February 22, 1919 – via Google Books.
    4. ^ "Gossip of Stage and Screen". Newspapers.com. Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio. December 13, 1925. p. 81. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
    5. ^ "The Lion and the Mouse (1919)". web.stanford.edu.
    6. ^ "Jane Jennings movies".
    7. ^ Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association (1907). The Moving picture world. California State Library. New York : The World Photographic Publishing Company.
    8. ^ "AFI|Catalog". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
    9. ^ 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.
    10. ^ a b "Jane Jennings". BFI. Archived from the original on February 22, 2020.

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