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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-04-12 (99 years old)

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.

Known For

Acting

2009

2002

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II as Gargoyle Laverne (voice)

2000

1996

The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)

1993

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Marge Allen
Murder, She Wrote as Alma Sobel

1979

1977

The Love Boat as Gladys

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 Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Edith Swinney

1961

The Right Approach as Liz Fargo

1960

1958

1957

Armored Attack! as as Clavdia Kurin

1956

Giant as Vashti Synthe

1953

General Electric Theater as Sue Ann Baines
General Electric Theater as Betty Hamilton

1947

Danger Street as Pat Marvin

1946

Affairs of Geraldine as Geraldine Cooper

1944

My Best Gal as Kitty O'Hara
Faces in the Fog as Mary Elliott

1943

The North Star as Clavdia Kurin

1942

Johnny Doughboy as Ann Winters / Penny Ryan
The Mad Martindales as Kathy Martindale
Young America as Jane Campbell

1941

Small Town Deb as Patricia Randall
Golden Hoofs as Jane Drake
Her First Beau as Penelope 'Penny' Wood
A Very Young Lady as Kitty Russell

1940

High School as Jane Wallace
Shooting High as Jane Pritchard

1939

Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
Chicken Wagon Family as Addie Fippany
Boy Friend as Sally Murphy
The Arizona Wildcat as Mary Jane Patterson

1938

Always in Trouble as Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington
Rascals as Gypsy
Keep Smiling as Jane Rand

1937

Angel's Holiday as June 'Angel' Everett
Checkers as Checkers
45 Fathers as Judy
Wild and Woolly as Arnette Flynn

1936

Paddy O'Day as Paddy O'Day
Little Miss Nobody as Judy Devlin
Pepper as Pepper Jolly
Can This Be Dixie? as Peg Gurgle
Gentle Julia as Florence Atwater

1935

Ginger as Ginger
The Good Fairy as Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)
This Is the Life as Geraldine Revier

1934

Bright Eyes as Joy Smythe
Imitation of Life as Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)

1933

Mary Stevens, M.D. as Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)

Writing

1941

Small Town Deb as Writer