Jane Withers

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

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

• The Love Boat (1977)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Hart to Hart (1979)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
• ABC Weekend Specials (1977)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)
• Checkers (1937)
• Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
• The North Star (1943)
• The Good Fairy (1935)
• Little Miss Nobody (1936)
• Johnny Doughboy (1942)
• This Is the Life (1935)
• Boy Friend (1939)
• The Arizona Wildcat (1939)
• The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
• Wild and Woolly (1937)
• The Right Approach (1961)
• The Mad Martindales (1942)
• Affairs of Geraldine (1946)
• Paddy O'Day (1936)
• Faces in the Fog (1944)
• Armored Attack! (1957)
• 45 Fathers (1937)
• Angel's Holiday (1937)
• Always in Trouble (1938)
• The Heart Is a Rebel (1958)
• Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
• Chicken Wagon Family (1939)