Jane Withers - Actor Profile

Jane Withers

20Movies
8.0 Best Rating

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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
1940 Shooting High Jane Pritchard ★ 8.0 HIT
1956 Giant Vashti Synthe ★ 7.6 HIT
1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice) ★ 7.1 HIT
1936 Paddy O'Day Paddy O'Day ★ 7.0 HIT
1941 Golden Hoofs Jane Drake ★ 7.0 HIT
1934 Imitation of Life Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited) ★ 7.0 HIT
1935 The Good Fairy Girl in Orphanage (uncredited) ★ 6.9 HIT
1934 Bright Eyes Joy Smythe ★ 6.7 HIT
1963 Captain Newman, M.D. Lt. Grace Blodgett ★ 6.6 HIT
1957 Armored Attack! as Clavdia Kurin ★ 6.2 FLOP
1939 Pack Up Your Troubles Colette ★ 6.2 FLOP
1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife Della ★ 6.1 FLOP
1943 The North Star Clavdia Kurin ★ 6.1 FLOP
1936 Little Miss Nobody Judy Devlin ★ 6.0 FLOP
1938 Always in Trouble Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington ★ 6.0 FLOP
1941 Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
1941 Small Town Deb Patricia Randall ★ 6.0 FLOP
1935 This Is the Life Geraldine Revier ★ 6.0 FLOP
1938 Rascals Gypsy ★ 6.0 FLOP
1941 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 - ★ 6.0 FLOP