The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Ford's 1940 Steinbeck adaptation. The film that established American social-realist cinema.
Actor: Jane Darwell
Jane Darwell won Best Supporting Actress for The Grapes of Wrath, playing Ma Joad, whose closing speech about the people going on is the film’s final statement. She appeared in more than two hundred films across five decades, and her last role was the bird woman in Mary Poppins.