Jane Withers
Acting • Born 1926-04-12 – Died 2021-08-07
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
75 credits
Giant
Movie • 1956
Vashti Synthe
Youth Will Be Served
Movie • 1940
Eadie-May
Armored Attack!
Movie • 1957
as Clavdia Kurin
Captain Newman, M.D.
Movie • 1963
Lt. Grace Blodgett
Bright Eyes
Movie • 1934
Joy Smythe
Angel's Holiday
Movie • 1937
June 'Angel' Everett
Paddy O'Day
Movie • 1936
Paddy O'Day
Danger Street
Movie • 1947
Pat Marvin
Ginger
Movie • 1935
Ginger
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Movie • 1935
Della
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie • 1939
Colette
The Right Approach
Movie • 1961
Liz Fargo
Little Miss Nobody
Movie • 1936
Judy Devlin
High School
Movie • 1940
Jane Wallace
Johnny Doughboy
Movie • 1942
Ann Winters / Penny Ryan
Always in Trouble
Movie • 1938
Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington
Shooting High
Movie • 1940
Jane Pritchard
Hollywood Hobbies
Movie • 1939
Self (uncredited)
The Good Fairy
Movie • 1935
Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)
Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play
Movie • 1941
Self
The North Star
Movie • 1943
Clavdia Kurin
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
Movie • 2002
Gargoyle Laverne (voice)
Small Town Deb
Movie • 1941
Patricia Randall
Chicken Wagon Family
Movie • 1939
Addie Fippany
This Is the Life
Movie • 1935
Geraldine Revier
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Movie • 1993
Self
My Best Gal
Movie • 1944
Kitty O'Hara
Faces in the Fog
Movie • 1944
Mary Elliott
Affairs of Geraldine
Movie • 1946
Geraldine Cooper
Pepper
Movie • 1936
Pepper Jolly
Boy Friend
Movie • 1939
Sally Murphy
The Arizona Wildcat
Movie • 1939
Mary Jane Patterson
Keep Smiling
Movie • 1938
Jane Rand
Rascals
Movie • 1938
Gypsy
Golden Hoofs
Movie • 1941
Jane Drake
Checkers
Movie • 1937
Checkers
The Mad Martindales
Movie • 1942
Kathy Martindale
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Movie • 1941
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Movie • 1933
Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)
All Together Now
Movie • 1975
Helen Drummond
Young America
Movie • 1942
Jane Campbell
Her First Beau
Movie • 1941
Penelope 'Penny' Wood
Peeks at Hollywood
Movie • 1946
The Holy Terror
Movie • 1937
Corky
Imitation of Life
Movie • 1934
Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1996
Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)
A Very Young Lady
Movie • 1941
Kitty Russell
45 Fathers
Movie • 1937
Judy
The Girl from Avenue A
Movie • 1940
Jane
Wild and Woolly
Movie • 1937
Arnette Flynn
Can This Be Dixie?
Movie • 1936
Peg Gurgle
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Movie • 2000
Self
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Movie • 1974
Self
Gentle Julia
Movie • 1936
Florence Atwater
The Heart is a Rebel
Movie • 1958
Grace
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Movie • 2009
Self
Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
Movie • 1996
Self
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Movie • 1989
Self
Buddy's Day Out
Movie • 1933
Cookie / Elmer (voice) (uncredited)
Zoo in Budapest
Movie • 1933
Little Girl at Zoo (uncredited)
Buddy's Garage
Movie • 1934
Cookie (voice) (uncredited)
Memories of Giant
Movie • 1998
Zack and the Magic Factory
Movie • 1981
Aunt Daisy
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Marge Allen
The Munsters
TV • 1964
Fanny Pike
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Sue Ann Baines
Weekend Special
TV • 1977
Pete and Gladys
TV • 1960
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Alma Sobel
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Betty Hamilton
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Gladys
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Edith Swinney