Jane Withers

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-04-12 (95 years old)

Deathday

2021-08-07

Place of Birth

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Jane Withers

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.

Acting

1956

Giant

as Vashti Synthe

1940

1957

Armored Attack!

as as Clavdia Kurin

1963

Captain Newman, M.D.

as Lt. Grace Blodgett

1934

Bright Eyes

as Joy Smythe

1937

Angel's Holiday

as June 'Angel' Everett

1936

Paddy O'Day

as Paddy O'Day

1947

Danger Street

as Pat Marvin

1935

Ginger

as Ginger

1939

1961

The Right Approach

as Liz Fargo

1936

Little Miss Nobody

as Judy Devlin

1940

High School

as Jane Wallace

1942

Johnny Doughboy

as Ann Winters / Penny Ryan

1938

Always in Trouble

as Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington

1940

Shooting High

as Jane Pritchard

1939

Hollywood Hobbies

as Self (uncredited)

1935

The Good Fairy

as Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)

1943

The North Star

as Clavdia Kurin

2002

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II

as Gargoyle Laverne (voice)

1941

Small Town Deb

as Patricia Randall

1939

Chicken Wagon Family

as Addie Fippany

1935

This Is the Life

as Geraldine Revier

1944

My Best Gal

as Kitty O'Hara

1944

Faces in the Fog

as Mary Elliott

1946

Affairs of Geraldine

as Geraldine Cooper

1936

Pepper

as Pepper Jolly

1939

Boy Friend

as Sally Murphy

1939

The Arizona Wildcat

as Mary Jane Patterson

1938

Keep Smiling

as Jane Rand

1938

Rascals

as Gypsy

1941

Golden Hoofs

as Jane Drake

1937

Checkers

as Checkers

1942

The Mad Martindales

as Kathy Martindale

1933

Mary Stevens, M.D.

as Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)

1975

All Together Now

as Helen Drummond

1942

Young America

as Jane Campbell

1941

Her First Beau

as Penelope 'Penny' Wood

1937

1934

Imitation of Life

as Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)

1996

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)

1941

A Very Young Lady

as Kitty Russell

1937

45 Fathers

as Judy

1937

Wild and Woolly

as Arnette Flynn

1936

Can This Be Dixie?

as Peg Gurgle

1936

Gentle Julia

as Florence Atwater

Production

1941

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