Misplaced Pages

Jane Jennings was an American actress known for playing older motherly characters. 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. 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.

Filmography

• I Want to Forget (1918)
• The Girl Who Came Back (1918)
• 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
• The Cost (1920)
• His House in Order (1920)
• The Gilded Lily (1921)
• What Women Will Do (1921) as Mrs. Wade
• 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)
• 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)
• Self Defense (1925)
• Enemies of Youth (1925)
• False Pride (1925)
• The Romance of a Million Dollars (1926)
• Broken Homes (1926)
• 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

1. ^ 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. ^ "Jane Jennings". BFI. Archived from the original on February 22, 2020.

External links

• Media related to Jane Jennings at Wikimedia Commons
• Jane Jennings at IMDb

• American silent film actresses
• 20th-century American actresses