Jo Van Fleet as Ella Garth

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Jo Van Fleet as Ella Garth is a powerful supporting performance in the 1960 film "Wild River," where she plays a stubborn matriarch resisting government efforts to flood her land for a Tennessee Valley Authority dam project.

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instanceOf film character performance
supporting performance
appearsInFilm Wild River
associatedOrganization Tennessee Valley Authority
basedOn novels "Dunbar’s Cove" and "Wild River" by Borden Deal
characterMotivation refusal to abandon family land
characterName Ella Garth
characterOpposes government efforts to flood her land
characterRole matriarch
characterTrait stubborn
coStarsWith Jay C. Flippen
Lee Remick
Montgomery Clift
criticalReception widely regarded as powerful performance
filmCountryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
filmDirector Elia Kazan
filmLanguage English
filmReleaseYear 1960
filmStudio 20th Century Fox
genre drama film performance
medium feature film
narrativeFunction embodiment of attachment to ancestral land
symbol of resistance to federal authority
performanceType supporting role
portrayedBy Jo Van Fleet
screenwriter Paul Osborn
setInContext Tellico Dam project
surface form: Tennessee Valley Authority dam project
setInCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
setInLocation Tennessee
timePeriodDepicted 1930s

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Wild River portraysCharacter Jo Van Fleet as Ella Garth