Jane Withers
Department: 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.
Known For
Giant
1956
Youth Will Be Served
1940
Armored Attack!
1957
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
Bright Eyes
1934
Angel's Holiday
1937
Paddy O'Day
1936
Danger Street
1947
Ginger
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
The Right Approach
1961
Little Miss Nobody
1936
High School
1940
Johnny Doughboy
1942
Always in Trouble
1938
Shooting High
1940
Hollywood Hobbies
1939
The Good Fairy
1935
Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play
1941
The North Star
1943
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
2002
Small Town Deb
1941
Chicken Wagon Family
1939
This Is the Life
1935
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993
My Best Gal
1944
Faces in the Fog
1944
Affairs of Geraldine
1946
Pepper
1936
Boy Friend
1939
Rascals
1938
Keep Smiling
1938
The Arizona Wildcat
1939
Golden Hoofs
1941
Checkers
1937
The Mad Martindales
1942
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
All Together Now
1975
Young America
1942
Her First Beau
1941
Peeks at Hollywood
1946
The Holy Terror
1937
Imitation of Life
1934
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996
A Very Young Lady
1941
45 Fathers
1937
The Girl from Avenue A
1940
Wild and Woolly
1937
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
1974
Gentle Julia
1936
The Heart is a Rebel
1958
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
1996
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989
Buddy's Day Out
1933
Zoo in Budapest
1933
Buddy's Garage
1934
Memories of Giant
1998
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Munsters
1964
Hart to Hart
1979
General Electric Theater
1953
Weekend Special
1977
Pete and Gladys
1960
Murder, She Wrote
1984
General Electric Theater
1953
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Love Boat
1977
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962