Jane Withers

Jane Withers

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.

On screen

  • Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
  • Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
  • Memories of Giant
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
  • When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
  • All Together Now
  • Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
  • Captain Newman, M.D.
  • The Right Approach
  • The Heart Is a Rebel
  • Armored Attack!
  • Giant
  • Danger Street
  • Affairs of Geraldine
  • Peeks at Hollywood
  • My Best Gal
  • Faces in the Fog
  • The North Star
  • Johnny Doughboy
  • The Mad Martindales
  • Young America
  • Small Town Deb
  • Golden Hoofs
  • Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
  • Her First Beau
  • A Very Young Lady
  • Youth Will Be Served
  • High School
  • Shooting High
  • The Girl from Avenue A
  • Pack Up Your Troubles
  • Hollywood Hobbies
  • Chicken Wagon Family
  • Boy Friend
  • The Arizona Wildcat
  • Always in Trouble
  • Rascals
  • Keep Smiling
  • Angel's Holiday
  • Checkers
  • The Holy Terror
  • 45 Fathers
  • Wild and Woolly
  • Paddy O'Day
  • Little Miss Nobody
  • Pepper
  • Can This Be Dixie?
  • Gentle Julia
  • Ginger
  • The Farmer Takes a Wife
  • The Good Fairy
  • This Is the Life
  • Bright Eyes
  • Imitation of Life
  • Buddy's Garage
  • Mary Stevens, M.D.
  • Buddy's Day Out
  • Zoo in Budapest

Behind the camera

  • Small Town Deb

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