She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and later starred in the thriller film North by Northwest ( 1959 ), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as " Ma Joad " in The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), a role she was given at the insistence of the film's star, Henry Fonda.
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