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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
Sorry, I don't know what happened to this thread, but someone mentioned Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath. That movie is a treasure and his performance was mesmorising. Also the woman that played his mother was fantastic. A very accurate and moving portrayal of the events of the time.
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Jim,
That would have been me who mentioned Fonda in "Wrath".. Ma Joad was played by the incomparable Jane Darwell, whose career in cinema pre-dated sound.. She made more than 100 films and was a treasure.
Her career was largely over and she had been generally forgotten in Hollywood when Robert Stevenson thoughtfully cast her in "Mary Poppins" in 1964. Even there, she managed to make a short appearance memorable during the most touching sequence in that wonderful confection: She played the "Birdwoman" in Trafalgar Square during Andrews' rendition of "Feed the Birds"... It was the last role of her six decades as an actress.
She is haunting in Grapes of Wrath..
"Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people."