Jane Withers
0.6Acting

Jane Withers

Apr 12, 1926 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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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.

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Movie1956GiantVashti Synthe
Movie1940Youth Will Be ServedEadie-May
Movie1957Armored Attack!as Clavdia Kurin
Movie1963Captain Newman, M.D.Lt. Grace Blodgett
Movie1934Bright EyesJoy Smythe
Movie1937Angel's HolidayJune 'Angel' Everett
Movie1936Paddy O'DayPaddy O'Day
Movie1947Danger StreetPat Marvin
Movie1935GingerGinger
Movie1935The Farmer Takes a WifeDella
Movie1939Pack Up Your TroublesColette
Movie1961The Right ApproachLiz Fargo
Movie1936Little Miss NobodyJudy Devlin
Movie1940High SchoolJane Wallace
Movie1942Johnny DoughboyAnn Winters / Penny Ryan
Movie1938Always in TroubleGeraldine "Jerry" Darlington
Movie1940Shooting HighJane Pritchard
Movie1939Hollywood HobbiesSelf (uncredited)
Movie1935The Good FairyGirl in Orphanage (uncredited)
Movie1941Meet the Stars #6: Stars at PlaySelf
Movie1943The North StarClavdia Kurin
Movie2002The Hunchback of Notre Dame IIGargoyle Laverne (voice)
Movie1941Small Town DebPatricia Randall
Movie1939Chicken Wagon FamilyAddie Fippany
Movie1935This Is the LifeGeraldine Revier
Movie1993Shirley Temple: America's Little DarlingSelf
Movie1944My Best GalKitty O'Hara
Movie1944Faces in the FogMary Elliott
Movie1946Affairs of GeraldineGeraldine Cooper
Movie1936PepperPepper Jolly
Movie1939Boy FriendSally Murphy
Movie1939The Arizona WildcatMary Jane Patterson
Movie1938Keep SmilingJane Rand
Movie1938RascalsGypsy
Movie1941Golden HoofsJane Drake
Movie1937CheckersCheckers
Movie1942The Mad MartindalesKathy Martindale
Movie1941Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Movie1933Mary Stevens, M.D.Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)
Movie1975All Together NowHelen Drummond
Movie1942Young AmericaJane Campbell
Movie1941Her First BeauPenelope 'Penny' Wood
Movie1946Peeks at Hollywood
Movie1937The Holy TerrorCorky
Movie1934Imitation of LifePeola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
Movie1996The Hunchback of Notre DameAdditional Laverne Dialogue (voice)
Movie1941A Very Young LadyKitty Russell
Movie193745 FathersJudy
Movie1940The Girl from Avenue AJane
Movie1937Wild and WoollyArnette Flynn
Movie1936Can This Be Dixie?Peg Gurgle
Movie2000Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre FootprintsSelf
Movie1974Mitzi... A Tribute to the American HousewifeSelf
Movie1936Gentle JuliaFlorence Atwater
Movie1958The Heart is a RebelGrace
Movie2009Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great DepressionSelf
Movie1996Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little StarSelf
Movie1989When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver ScreenSelf
TV Show1984Murder, She WroteMarge Allen1
TV Show1964The MunstersFanny Pike2
TV Show1979Hart to Hart1
TV Show1953General Electric TheaterSue Ann Baines1
TV Show1977Weekend Special2
TV Show1960Pete and Gladys1
TV Show1984Murder, She WroteAlma Sobel1
TV Show1953General Electric TheaterBetty Hamilton1
TV Show1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf1
TV Show1977The Love BoatGladys1
TV Show1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelf2
TV Show1962The Alfred Hitchcock HourEdith Swinney1

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Movie1941Small Town DebWriterWriting