Cast & creator
Jane Withers
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The Love Boat
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.
Also known as: Jerrie Walters
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1933–2009 · acting roles
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Filmography (75)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Love Boat
Gladys
1977
Murder, She Wrote
Marge Allen
1984Murder, She Wrote
Alma Sobel
1984
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Edith Swinney
1962
Hart to Hart
1979
The Munsters
Fanny Pike
1964
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)
1996
Pete and Gladys
1960
ABC Weekend Specials
1977
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
Gargoyle Laverne (voice)
2002
Giant
Vashti Synthe
1956
General Electric Theater
Sue Ann Baines
1953General Electric Theater
Betty Hamilton
1953
Captain Newman, M.D.
Lt. Grace Blodgett
1963
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Self
2009
Imitation of Life
Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
1934
The North Star
Clavdia Kurin
1943
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)
1933
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Self
2000
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Bright Eyes
Joy Smythe
1934
Can This Be Dixie?
Peg Gurgle
1936
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Self
1993
Checkers
Checkers
1937
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Self
1989
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Della
1935
Pack Up Your Troubles
Colette
1939
The Heart Is a Rebel
Grace
1958
Paddy O'Day
Paddy O'Day
1936
This Is the Life
Geraldine Revier
1935
The Good Fairy
Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)
1935
Little Miss Nobody
Judy Devlin
1936
Youth Will Be Served
Eadie-May
1940
A Very Young Lady
Kitty Russell
1941
The Girl from Avenue A
Jane
1940
Faces in the Fog
Mary Elliott
1944
Her First Beau
Penelope 'Penny' Wood
1941Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star
Self
1996
Wild and Woolly
Arnette Flynn
1937
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Self
1974
Boy Friend
Sally Murphy
1939
The Arizona Wildcat
Mary Jane Patterson
1939
Hollywood Hobbies
Self (uncredited)
1939
Chicken Wagon Family
Addie Fippany
1939
The Right Approach
Liz Fargo
1961
High School
Jane Wallace
1940
Small Town Deb
Patricia Randall
1941Small Town Deb
Writer
1941
All Together Now
Helen Drummond
1975
Young America
Jane Campbell
1942
The Mad Martindales
Kathy Martindale
1942
Buddy's Day Out
Cookie / Elmer (voice) (uncredited)
1933
Affairs of Geraldine
Geraldine Cooper
1946
Memories of Giant
Self
1998
Rascals
Gypsy
1938
Armored Attack!
as Clavdia Kurin
1957
Shooting High
Jane Pritchard
1940
Johnny Doughboy
Ann Winters / Penny Ryan
1942
Gentle Julia
Florence Atwater
1936
My Best Gal
Kitty O'Hara
1944
Angel's Holiday
June 'Angel' Everett
1937
Zoo in Budapest
Little Girl at Zoo (uncredited)
1933Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play
Self
1941
Golden Hoofs
Jane Drake
1941
Danger Street
Pat Marvin
1947
The Holy Terror
Corky
1937
Buddy's Garage
Cookie (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Ginger
Ginger
1935
Always in Trouble
Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington
1938
Pepper
Pepper Jolly
1936
Keep Smiling
Jane Rand
1938
45 Fathers
Judy
1937