Jane Withers
Born: 1926-04-12 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Died: 2021-08-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
2009
2002
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame II as Gargoyle Laverne (voice)
1998
- Memories of Giant as Self
1996
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)
- Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star as Self
1993
1989
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Marge Allen
1979
1977
- The Love Boat as Gladys
- ABC Weekend Specials
1975
- All Together Now as Helen Drummond
1974
1964
- The Munsters as Fanny Pike
1963
- Captain Newman, M.D. as Lt. Grace Blodgett
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Edith Swinney
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Right Approach as Liz Fargo
1960
1958
- The Heart Is a Rebel as Grace
1957
- Armored Attack! as as Clavdia Kurin
1956
- Giant as Vashti Synthe
1953
- General Electric Theater as Sue Ann Baines
1947
- Danger Street as Pat Marvin
1946
- Affairs of Geraldine as Geraldine Cooper
- Peeks at Hollywood
1944
- Faces in the Fog as Mary Elliott
- My Best Gal as Kitty O'Hara
1943
- The North Star as Clavdia Kurin
1942
- Young America as Jane Campbell
- The Mad Martindales as Kathy Martindale
- Johnny Doughboy as Ann Winters / Penny Ryan
1941
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
- A Very Young Lady as Kitty Russell
- Her First Beau as Penelope 'Penny' Wood
- Small Town Deb as Patricia Randall
- Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play as Self
- Golden Hoofs as Jane Drake
1940
- Youth Will Be Served as Eadie-May
- The Girl from Avenue A as Jane
- High School as Jane Wallace
- Shooting High as Jane Pritchard
1939
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Colette
- Boy Friend as Sally Murphy
- The Arizona Wildcat as Mary Jane Patterson
- Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
- Chicken Wagon Family as Addie Fippany
1938
- Rascals as Gypsy
- Always in Trouble as Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington
- Keep Smiling as Jane Rand
1937
- Checkers as Checkers
- Wild and Woolly as Arnette Flynn
- Angel's Holiday as June 'Angel' Everett
- The Holy Terror as Corky
- 45 Fathers as Judy
1936
- Can This Be Dixie? as Peg Gurgle
- Paddy O'Day as Paddy O'Day
- Little Miss Nobody as Judy Devlin
- Gentle Julia as Florence Atwater
- Pepper as Pepper Jolly
1935
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Della
- This Is the Life as Geraldine Revier
- The Good Fairy as Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)
- Ginger as Ginger
1934
- Imitation of Life as Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
- Bright Eyes as Joy Smythe
- Buddy's Garage as Cookie (voice) (uncredited)
1933
- Mary Stevens, M.D. as Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)
- Buddy's Day Out as Cookie / Elmer (voice) (uncredited)
- Zoo in Budapest as Little Girl at Zoo (uncredited)