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Jane Withers is a Actor and Writer American born on 12 april 1926 at Atlanta (USA)

Jane Withers

Jane Withers
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Birth name Jane Withers
Nationality USA
Birth 12 april 1926 at Atlanta (USA)
Death 7 august 2021 (at 95 years)
Awards Young Artist Award, Award

Jane Withers (born April 12, 1926) is an American actress, model, and singer. Beginning a prolific career as a child actress at the age of three, Withers is 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 movie she paired with Shirley Temple, Bright Eyes. Also a singer, she debuted the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn torch song "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" in 1944 in Glad To See You, a Broadway-bound musical which closed out of town in Philadelphia.

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Best films

Giant (1956)
(Actress)

Usually with

Lou Breslow
Lou Breslow
(6 films)
Fred Kelsey
Fred Kelsey
(6 films)
Richard Day
Richard Day
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jane Withers (43 films)

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Actress

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about children, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tom Hulce, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Haley Joel Osment, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Michael McKean
Roles Gargoyle Laverne (voice)
Rating47% 2.383892.383892.383892.383892.38389
Now serving as Paris' Captain of the Guard under the new Minister of Justice, after the death of the previous one (Judge Claude Frollo). Captain Phoebus and Esmeralda have married and have a six-year-old son named Zephyr. Quasimodo is now an accepted part of Parisian society; though he still lives in Notre Dame with his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, and still serves as the cathedral's bell-ringer.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1h27
Directed by Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Tony Jay, Kevin Kline, Jason Alexander, Mary Kay Bergman
Roles Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)
Rating70% 3.5013153.5013153.5013153.5013153.501315
In 1482 Paris, Clopin, a gypsy puppeteer, narrates the origin of the titular hunchback. A group of gypsies sneak illegally into Paris, but are ambushed by Judge Claude Frollo, the minister of justice. A gypsy woman in the group attempts to flee with her deformed baby, but Frollo chases and kills her outside Notre Dame. He tries to kill the baby as well, but the cathedral's archdeacon intervenes and accuses Frollo of murdering an innocent woman. To atone for his sin, Frollo reluctantly agrees to raise the deformed child in Notre Dame as his son, naming him Quasimodo.
Captain Newman, M.D., 2h6
Directed by Robert D. Webb, David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert, Marc Cavell
Roles Lt. Grace Blodgett
Rating68% 3.4463553.4463553.4463553.4463553.446355
In 1944, Captain Josiah Newman (Peck) is head of the neuro-psychiatric Ward 7 at the Colfax Army Air Field military hospital, located in the Arizona desert. As he explains to a visiting VIP who wanders in: "We're short of beds, doctors, orderlies, nurses, everything ... except patients." He will use unconventional tactics to treat his patients and to recruit much needed personnel, as when he hijacks a new and very reluctant orderly, Corporal Jackson Leibowitz (Curtis), a wheeler-dealer from New Jersey. Leibowitz promptly has the entire ward participating in a sing-along of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
Giant
Giant (1956)
, 3h21
Directed by Fred Guiol, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about racism
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Nick Adams, Mercedes McCambridge
Roles Vashti Synthe
Rating75% 3.7997953.7997953.7997953.7997953.799795
The movie follows a Texas family over a quarter century from the 1920s until after World War II. Themes of discrimination along race, class and gender lines, as well as the role they played in the social evolution of post-war Texas, are prominent.
Danger Street, 1h8
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Jane Withers, Robert Lowery, Bill Edwards, Elaine Riley, Lyle Talbot, Will Wright
Roles Pat Marvin
Rating56% 2.821562.821562.821562.821562.82156
My Best Gal, 1h7
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jane Withers, Jimmy Lydon, Frank Craven, Fortunio Bonanova, George Cleveland, Franklin Pangborn
Roles Kitty O'Hara
Rating59% 2.967352.967352.967352.967352.96735
Danny O'Hara, un ancien artiste de music-hall, est déçu quand sa petite-fille Kitty ne veut pas poursuivre la tradition familiale car elle considère le monde du show business trop instable. Ils travaillent tous les deux au Greenway Drugstore à New York, le lieu de ralliement de l'auteur Johnny McCloud et de sa bande d'amis. Johnny a écrit une revue et Kitty, amoureuse de Johnny, conspire avec lui pour que le script soit présenté à Ralph Hodges, un producteur de Broadway. Hodges, passionné d'astrologie, n'est pas intéressé par le travail de Johnny mais sa secrétaire, Miss Simpson, promet de trouver une manière de lui reproposer le script. Plus tard, pendant que Kitty se prépare pour son premier rendez-vous avec Johnny, Danny convainc ce dernier de faire en sorte que le producteur de radio Harry Gage entende Kitty. Alors qu'elle chante une ballade romantique à Johnny, Kitty découvre Danny et Gage qui se cachent et disparaît avant que Gage ait pu lui offrir du travail. Ce même soir, Johnny et Danny présentent leurs excuses à Kitty et Johnny lui apprend qu'il doit partir à l'armée dans deux jours.
The North Star, 1h48
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Erich von Stroheim, Ann Harding
Roles Clavdia Kurin
Rating59% 2.9526152.9526152.9526152.9526152.952615
In June 1941 Ukrainian villagers are living in peace. As the school year ends, a group of friends decide to travel to Kiev for a holiday. To their horror, they find themselves attacked by German aircraft, part of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Eventually their village itself is occupied by the Nazis. Meanwhile, men and women take to the hills to form partisan militias.
Johnny Doughboy, 1h4
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Jane Withers, Henry Wilcoxon, William Demarest, Ruth Donnelly, Etta McDaniel, Bobby Breen
Roles Ann Winters / Penny Ryan
Rating55% 2.7803852.7803852.7803852.7803852.780385
Sixteen-year-old actress Ann Winters (Jane Withers), who has been a movie star since childhood, declares that she no longer wants to play "childish" roles. Her attitude irritates her agent, Harry Fabian (William Demarest), who tells her that the studio has decided that her next picture will be Ann of Honeysuckle Farm, in which she is to play a twelve-year-old. Ann leaves a note for her sympathetic secretary, "Biggy" Biggsworth (Ruth Donnelly), saying that she does not want a career if she cannot have a life, too, then runs away for a two-week vacation. Just then, innocent Penny Ryan (also Jane Withers) from Oriole, Nebraska, arrives. Penny is the winner of a contest concocted by Harry in which the fan who most resembles Ann gets to spend two weeks with her in her home. Harry and Biggy are stunned by Penny's appearance, for she is an exact double for Ann. Harry decides to induce Penny to impersonate Ann, who is to start her new film the next day or else be suspended by the studio.
Young America, 1h13
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, William Tracy, Roman Bohnen, Irving Bacon
Roles Jane Campbell
Rating56% 2.844432.844432.844432.844432.84443
Small Town Deb, 1h12
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Cecil Kellaway, Katharine Alexander
Roles Patricia Randall
Rating63% 3.1784053.1784053.1784053.1784053.178405