Jane Withers

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

Born: Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1926-04-12

Died: 2021-08-07

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Mary Stevens, M.D.	Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)	60
2	1934	Imitation of Life	Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)	70
3	1934	Bright Eyes	Joy Smythe	67
4	1935	The Good Fairy	Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)	70
5	1935	Ginger	Ginger	47
6	1935	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Della	61
7	1935	This Is the Life	Geraldine Revier	60
8	1936	Paddy O'Day	Paddy O'Day	70
9	1936	Gentle Julia	Florence Atwater	0
10	1936	Little Miss Nobody	Judy Devlin	60
11	1936	Pepper	Pepper Jolly	10
12	1936	Can This Be Dixie?	Peg Gurgle	0
13	1937	The Holy Terror	Corky	10
14	1937	Angel's Holiday	June 'Angel' Everett	55
15	1937	Wild and Woolly	Arnette Flynn	0
16	1937	45 Fathers	Judy	10
17	1937	Checkers	Checkers	0
18	1938	Rascals	Gypsy	60
19	1938	Keep Smiling	Jane Rand	0
20	1938	Always in Trouble	Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington	60
21	1939	The Arizona Wildcat	Mary Jane Patterson	55
22	1939	Hollywood Hobbies	Self (uncredited)	56
23	1939	Boy Friend	Sally Murphy	0
24	1939	Chicken Wagon Family	Addie Fippany	0
25	1939	Pack Up Your Troubles	Colette	62
26	1940	High School	Jane Wallace	55
27	1940	Shooting High	Jane Pritchard	80
28	1940	The Girl from Avenue A	Jane	0
29	1940	Youth Will Be Served	Eadie-May	10
30	1941	Golden Hoofs	Jane Drake	70
31	1941	Her First Beau	Penelope 'Penny' Wood	50
32	1941	Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play	Self	60
33	1941	A Very Young Lady	Kitty Russell	10
34	1941	Small Town Deb	Patricia Randall	60
35	1941	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2		60
36	1942	Young America	Jane Campbell	0
37	1942	The Mad Martindales	Kathy Martindale	50
38	1942	Johnny Doughboy	Ann Winters / Penny Ryan	55
39	1943	The North Star	Clavdia Kurin	61
40	1944	My Best Gal	Kitty O'Hara	0
41	1944	Faces in the Fog	Mary Elliott	30
42	1946	Peeks at Hollywood		0
43	1946	Affairs of Geraldine	Geraldine Cooper	0
44	1947	Danger Street	Pat Marvin	40
45	1956	Giant	Vashti Synthe	76
46	1957	Armored Attack!	as Clavdia Kurin	62
47	1958	The Heart is a Rebel	Grace	0
48	1961	The Right Approach	Liz Fargo	0
49	1963	Captain Newman, M.D.	Lt. Grace Blodgett	65
50	1974	Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife	Self	60
51	1975	All Together Now	Helen Drummond	0
52	1993	Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling	Self	0
53	1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)	71
54	2000	Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints	Self	0
55	2002	The Hunchback of Notre Dame II	Gargoyle Laverne (voice)	54
56	2009	Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	General Electric Theater	Sue Ann Baines	60
2	1953	General Electric Theater	Betty Hamilton	60
3	1960	Pete and Gladys		65
4	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
5	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Edith Swinney	78
6	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
7	1964	The Munsters	Fanny Pike	80
8	1977	Weekend Special		76
9	1977	The Love Boat	Gladys	63
10	1979	Hart to Hart		68
11	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Marge Allen	75
12	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Alma Sobel	75