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Jane Withers (April 12, 1926 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress, model, and singer. Beginning a prolific career as a child actress at the age of 3, Withers was a Young Artist Award–Former Child Star “Lifetime Achievement” Award honoree, best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of “Josephine the Plumber” in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s, and probably best known for playing the obnoxious Joy Smythe in the film Bright Eyes, where she paired with Shirley Temple.
Jane Withers Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jane Withers |
| Also Know | Jerrie Walters |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1926-04-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 95 |
| Deathday | 2021-08-07 |
Jane Withers Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Angel’s Holiday | June ‘Angel’ Everett | 1937-06-07 | Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her “Angel,” becomes involved in intrigue cente… |
| Paddy O’Day | Paddy O’Day | 1936-01-17 | A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in … |
| Danger Street | Pat Marvin | 1947-06-20 | Magazine owners (Jane Withers, Robert Lowery) sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder…. |
| Ginger | Ginger | 1935-07-04 | Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and fa… |
| Always in Trouble | Geraldine “Jerry” Darlington | 1938-10-28 | Jane’s dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife…. |
| Little Miss Nobody | Judy Devlin | 1936-06-05 | A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past…. |
| High School | Jane Wallace | 1940-01-26 | A teenager who’s been raised and home-schooled at her father’s Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she’… |
| Shooting High | Jane Pritchard | 1940-04-25 | A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead…. |
| Rascals | Gypsy | 1938-05-20 | A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite (Hundson) who has amnesia. She works as a f… |
| This Is the Life | Geraldine Revier | 1935-10-07 | A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough–and takes it on the lam…. |
| Small Town Deb | Patricia Randall | 1941-11-07 | Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother…. |
| Chicken Wagon Family | Addie Fippany | 1939-08-10 | Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading t… |
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Colette | 1939-10-24 | Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines…. |
| My Best Gal | Kitty O’Hara | 1944-03-28 | A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend’s musical…. |
| Faces in the Fog | Mary Elliott | 1944-11-30 | Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom’s neighbor and the docto… |
| Affairs of Geraldine | Geraldine Cooper | 1946-11-18 | When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine…. |
| Pepper | Pepper Jolly | 1936-08-08 | Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter f… |
| Boy Friend | Sally Murphy | 1939-05-19 | A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop’s sister helps him by singing ther… |
| Keep Smiling | Jane Rand | 1938-08-12 | Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary…. |
| The Arizona Wildcat | Mary Jane Patterson | 1939-02-11 | In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery…. |
| Johnny Doughboy | Ann Winters / Penny Ryan | 1942-12-31 | A grown-up Jane Withers is joined by a whole slew of former child stars in the lightweight Republic musical Johnny Doughboy. Withers capably essays th… |
| Golden Hoofs | Jane Drake | 1941-02-14 | A teenage horse trainer fears she’ll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold…. |
| Checkers | Checkers | 1937-12-08 | A clever veterinarian repairs a horse’s leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man’s farm…. |
| The Mad Martindales | Kathy Martindale | 1942-05-15 | A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father’s art treasures…. |
| Young America | Jane Campbell | 1942-02-06 | Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Ro… |
| Her First Beau | Penelope ‘Penny’ Wood | 1941-05-08 | 15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests – Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also… |
| The Holy Terror | Corky | 1937-02-05 | Jane is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies…. |
| A Very Young Lady | Kitty Russell | 1941-06-27 | A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications…. |
| 45 Fathers | Judy | 1937-11-26 | An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can…. |
| The Girl from Avenue A | Jane | 1940-08-09 | A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright…. |
| Wild and Woolly | Arnette Flynn | 1937-07-19 | Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) tea… |
| Can This Be Dixie? | Peg Gurgle | 1936-11-13 | A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation…. |
| Gentle Julia | Florence Atwater | 1936-04-10 | A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right…. |
| Youth Will Be Served | Eadie-May | 1940-11-22 | A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur…. |
| Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints | Self | 2000-01-01 | Documentary explores that his of the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Opened on May 18, 1927 as Grauman’s Chinese Theater, it immediately drew att… |
| Mitzi… A Tribute to the American Housewife | Self | 1974-02-04 | Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, da… |
| Giant | Vashti Synthe | 1956-11-08 | Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She m… |
| The Farmer Takes a Wife | Della | 1935-07-05 | A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm…. |
| The North Star | Clavdia Kurin | 1943-11-04 | A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as “Armored Attack.”… |
| The Right Approach | Liz Fargo | 1961-05-17 | An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame…. |
| All Together Now | Helen Drummond | 1975-02-05 | Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story…. |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | Lt. Grace Blodgett | 1963-12-25 | In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital i… |
| Bright Eyes | Joy Smythe | 1934-12-28 | An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for c… |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice) | 1996-06-21 | At the urging of his gargoyle pals, Quasimodo leaves Notre Dame tower against the wishes of his guardian, the evil Judge Claude Frollo. He ventures ou… |
| Armored Attack! | as Clavdia Kurin | 1957-01-01 | A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive referenc… |
| Peeks at Hollywood | 1946-01-26 | Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood…. | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame II | Gargoyle Laverne (voice) | 2002-02-05 | Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda’s and Phoebus’ little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stop… |
| The Heart is a Rebel | Grace | 1958-01-01 | While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s acceptance … |
| The Good Fairy | Child, Orphanage Sequence (uncredited) | 1935-02-18 | In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing go… |
| Hollywood Hobbies | Herself (uncredited) | 1939-05-03 | In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars…. |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 2 | 1941-12-05 | Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund’s co… | |
| Mary Stevens, M.D. | Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited) | 1933-07-22 | A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage…. |
| Imitation of Life | Peola’s Frontrow Classmate (uncredited) | 1934-11-23 | A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Small Town Deb | Writer | 1941-11-07 | Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother…. |
Credit: TMDB
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