Jane Ellen Mathews — The Westerner Character Profile

About Jane Ellen Mathews

The determined leader of the struggling homesteaders opposing Judge Bean's cattle-rancher alliance. After her father is killed and their farm burned, she partners with Harden to restore justice and eventually marries him to rebuild their lives.

Character Facts

Played by

Doris Davenport

Appears in

The Westerner (1940)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Jane Ellen Mathews — Family Daughter — Caliphet Mathews (Fred Stone)

  Father-daughter relationship

• Jane Ellen Mathews — Romantic Spouse — Cole Harden (Gary Cooper)

  Develops from alliance to marriage

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More characters from The Westerner

• Cole Harden (Gary Cooper)
• Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan)
• Caliphet Mathews (Fred Stone)
• Shad Wilkins (Trevor Bardette)
• Wade Harper (Forrest Tucker)
• Deputy (uncredited) (Hank Bell)
• Lily Langtry's Manager (uncredited) (Charles Coleman)
• Chickenfoot (Paul Hurst)
• King Evans (Tom Tyler)
• Sheriff (uncredited) (Stanley Andrews)
• The Stranger (Lucien Littlefield)
• Mr. Dixon - Homesteader (uncredited) (Arthur Aylesworth)