Jane Withers
Child star turned character actress Jane Withers had an uncanny ability to make audiences laugh, sing and dance along with her throughout her illustrious career. She rose to prominence in the 1930s as the bratty young actress who bullied Shirley Temple in the film "Bright Eyes," which helped her land a contract with 20th Century Fox. Withers also gave Temple a run for her money as that era's biggest child star, often cast as the girl who could beat the boys at their own game. She had her first starring role in "Ginger" (1935), as an orphan who was far from helpless. After a break from the film industry, Wither reemerged in the 1960s as a character actor on television, as well as played Josephine the Plumber in a long-running series of advertisements for Comet cleanser. Withers' portrayal of a cheery female plumber and housewife not only helped boost sales for the product, but also established the hardworking and talented actress as a cultural icon who survived her childhood stardom to become a beloved personality on the big and small screen.
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Jane Withers
Filmography
Movies
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22% |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II | Laverne (Character) | - | 2002 |
72% |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Laverne (additional dialogue) (Voice) | $100.1M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Right Approach | Liz Fargo-Life Magazine Photographer (Character) | - | 1961 |
86% |
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Giant | Vashti Snythe (Character) | $183.9K | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Danger Street | Pat Marvin (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Affairs of Geraldine | Geraldine Cooper (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Best Gal | Kitty O'Hara (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Faces in the Fog | Mary Elliott (Character) | - | 1944 |
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The North Star | Clavdia Kurina (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Doughboy |
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- | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad Martindales | Kathy Martindale (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Golden Hoofs | Jane Drake (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Small Town Deb | Patricia Randall (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Very Young Lady | Kitty Russell (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her First Beau | Penelope 'Penny' Wood (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shooting High | Jane Pritchard (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High School | Jane Wallace (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl From Avenue A | Jane (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Youth Will Be Served | Eadie-May (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arizona Wildcat | Mary Jane Patterson (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boy Friend | Sally Murphy (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicken Wagon Family | Unknown (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pack Up Your Troubles | Colette (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Keep Smiling | Jane Rand (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Always in Trouble | Jerry Darlington (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rascals | Gypsy (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Checkers | Checkers (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Holy Terror | Corky Wallace (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 45 Fathers | Judith Frazier (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild and Woolly | Arnette Flynn (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angel's Holiday | June "Angel" Everett (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentle Julia | Florence Atwater (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pepper | Pepper Jolly (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Can This Be Dixie? | Peg Gurgle (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Della (Character) | - | 1935 |
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This Is the Life | Geraldine Revier (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ginger | Ginger (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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Paddy O'Day | Paddy O'Day (Character) | - | 1935 |
83% |
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Bright Eyes | Joy Smythe (Character) | - | 1934 |
TV
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0% | No Score Yet | Amazing Grace | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Marge Allen (Guest Star) | 1991 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1970 |
83% | 92% | The Munsters | Fanny Pike (Guest Star) | 1964 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bachelor Father | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |