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Aug 8, 2021 · Jane Withers was born in Atlanta on April 12, 1926, to Walter and Lavinia Withers. ... An earlier version of this obituary misidentified the studio that released the movie "Bright Eyes," in which ...
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Jane Withers (April 12, 1926 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress and children's radio show hostess. She became one of the most popular child stars in Hollywood in the 1930s and early 1940s, with her films ranking in the top ten list for box-office gross in 1937 and 1938. She began her entertainment career at the age of three and, during ...
Aug 9, 2021 · Aug. 8, 2021 5:14 PM PT. Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the screen and went on to star in a series of B movies that made her a box-office champion, has died ...
Aug 10, 2021 · Jane Withers, seen in 2010. Withers was one of the last remaining stars from the 1930s and 1940s, the height of Hollywood studio dominance. Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled ...
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Withers was one of the biggest child stars of the 1930s, sometimes acting as a foil to the superstar child actress Shirley Temple (1928–2014). Withers tended to play mischievous little girls and tomboys, a formula that followed her into her teens. Her notable films as a child star included “Bright Eyes” (1934), “Ginger” (1935), and “The Holy Terror...
Withers returned to the big screen for a supporting role in “Giant” (1956) and thereafter continued to work intermittently. She appeared on TV shows including “Bachelor Father,” “The Munsters,” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Her greatest later-career fame came when she accepted a role as Josephine the Plumber in a series of Comet cleanser ads in the mid-...
“I was just the opposite of her. There was nothing about me in any way, shape, or form that I could ever be like Shirley Temple. I was just plain Jane – no curls, no dimples, no anything – just me.” —from a 2013 interview for Journeys in Classic Film
Aug 9, 2021 · Jane Withers, a former child movie star who won hearts during Hollywood’s Golden Age, has died aged 95. The Atlanta-born actress died on Saturday evening in Burbank, California, surrounded by ...
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Aug 8, 2021 · Jane Withers 20th Century Fox/Photofest. Jane Withers, the talented child star who tormented Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes and years later became a trusted confidant of James Dean in his final ...
