Jane Jennings
{{Short description|American actress}}
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Jane Jennings was an American actress known for playing older motherly characters.{{cite magazine|magazine=Pantomime|title=Jane Jennings: Heiress|page=8|url=https://archive.org/details/PantomimeJan.211922/page/n7|date=January 21, 1922|first=Herbert|last=Robinson}}{{Cite magazine|last=Blenton|first=Billie|title=A Star Mother and Her Brood|date=September 30, 1922|magazine=Movie Weekly}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lwMoAAAAYAAJ&q=%22jane+jennings%22+film&pg=PA4124|title=Motion Picture News|date=February 22, 1919|publisher=Motion Picture News|via=Google Books}} 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.{{Cite news|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/397172689/|title=Gossip of Stage and Screen|publisher=Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio|date=December 13, 1925|page=81|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-25}}
Filmography
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- 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{{cite web|url=https://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/AJ/reviews/latm.htm|title=The Lion and the Mouse (1919)|website=web.stanford.edu}}
- 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){{cite web|url=https://publicdomainmovies.info/tag/jane-jennings/|title=Jane Jennings movies}}
- 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){{Cite book|last=Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association|url=https://archive.org/details/movpicwor73movi|title=The Moving picture world|date=1907|publisher=New York : The World Photographic Publishing Company|others=California State Library}}
- Self Defense (1925)
- Enemies of Youth (1925){{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/8841 |title=AFI|Catalog |publisher=Catalog.afi.com |accessdate=2020-02-24}}
- False Pride (1925){{Cite magazine|last=Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association|url=https://archive.org/details/movpicwor76movi|title="False Pride," Second MacFadden Production, Has Been Completed|magazine=The Moving Picture World|date=September 5, 1925|page=92|publisher=New York : The World Photographic Publishing Company|others=California State Library}}
- The Romance of a Million Dollars (1926){{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba952e670|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222021755/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba952e670|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 22, 2020|title=Jane Jennings|website=BFI}}
- 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
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Category:American silent film actresses
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