Jane Withers

Acting

Jane Withers

Born — Died

1926-04-12 — 2021-08-07

Place of birth

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

73 titles

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.

Known for

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson poster
7.6

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Mike Douglas Show poster
5.8

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Love Boat poster
6.2

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

The Love Boat

1977

Murder, She Wrote poster
7.5

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Murder, She Wrote

1984

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour poster
7.9

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

Hart to Hart poster
6.9

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

Hart to Hart

1979

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1960s · 2 titles

1950s · 3 titles

1940s · 18 titles

The North Star poster
6.0

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

The North Star

1943

Faces in the Fog poster
4.3

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....

Faces in the Fog

1944

Affairs of Geraldine poster
7.0

When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.

Affairs of Geraldine

1946

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 poster
7.0

Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

1941

A Very Young Lady poster
4.5

A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.

A Very Young Lady

1941

Her First Beau poster
6.5

15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

Her First Beau

1941

The Girl from Avenue A poster
7.5

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

The Girl from Avenue A

1940

The Mad Martindales poster
7.5

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

The Mad Martindales

1942

Johnny Doughboy poster
5.6

As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.

Johnny Doughboy

1942

Shooting High poster
7.0

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

Shooting High

1940

Youth Will Be Served poster
4.0

A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.

Youth Will Be Served

1940

Danger Street poster
6.5

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

Danger Street

1947

Peeks at Hollywood poster
NR

Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.

Peeks at Hollywood

1946

High School poster
6.7

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high school.

High School

1940

Golden Hoofs poster
8.0

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

Golden Hoofs

1941

Young America poster
9.0

Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.

Young America

1942

My Best Gal poster
9.0

A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

My Best Gal

1944

Small Town Deb poster
6.5

Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.

Small Town Deb

1941

1930s · 27 titles

Imitation of Life poster
7.0

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Imitation of Life

1934

Mary Stevens, M.D. poster
6.2

Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.

Mary Stevens, M.D.

1933

Bright Eyes poster
6.7

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

Bright Eyes

1934

The Farmer Takes a Wife poster
6.2

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935

Pack Up Your Troubles poster
6.8

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

Pack Up Your Troubles

1939

The Good Fairy poster
7.1

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

The Good Fairy

1935

Wild and Woolly poster
10.0

Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!

Wild and Woolly

1937

Always in Trouble poster
7.3

Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.

Always in Trouble

1938

Little Miss Nobody poster
7.5

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Little Miss Nobody

1936

Zoo in Budapest poster
4.8

Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.

Zoo in Budapest

1933

Boy Friend poster
9.0

A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.

Boy Friend

1939

Can This Be Dixie? poster
7.0

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

Can This Be Dixie?

1936

The Arizona Wildcat poster
6.7

In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.

The Arizona Wildcat

1939

This Is the Life poster
6.5

A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.

This Is the Life

1935

Checkers poster
10.0

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

Checkers

1937

Angel's Holiday poster
6.0

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.

Angel's Holiday

1937

Gentle Julia poster
7.0

A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.

Gentle Julia

1936

Paddy O'Day poster
7.0

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.

Paddy O'Day

1936

Rascals poster
7.0

A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.

Rascals

1938

Keep Smiling poster
8.0

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

Keep Smiling

1938

Chicken Wagon Family poster
10.0

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.

Chicken Wagon Family

1939

The Holy Terror poster
5.0

Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.

The Holy Terror

1937

Hollywood Hobbies poster
5.6

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Hollywood Hobbies

1939

Pepper poster
5.0

Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.

Pepper

1936

45 Fathers poster
4.5

An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.

45 Fathers

1937

Buddy's Day Out poster
4.9

This cartoon has some amusing sight gags like a car going back through a fence and crashing into various animals before landing in Cookie's yard or a train that seems on its way into crashing into a car with Elmer and Happy inside when Buddy and Cookie use a ladder to derail the locomotive in another direction.

Buddy's Day Out

1933

Buddy's Garage poster
4.0

While having lunch at the garage, Cookie is kidnapped by a man and Buddy gets in a car chase to rescue her.

Buddy's Garage

1934

Series credits

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson poster
7.6

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Mike Douglas Show poster
5.8

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Love Boat poster
6.2

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

The Love Boat

1977

Murder, She Wrote poster
7.5

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Murder, She Wrote

1984

Murder, She Wrote poster
7.5

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Murder, She Wrote

1984

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour poster
7.9

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

Hart to Hart poster
6.9

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

Hart to Hart

1979

The Munsters poster
7.9

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

The Munsters

1964

Pete and Gladys poster
6.2

Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.

Pete and Gladys

1960

ABC Weekend Specials poster
7.5

The ABC Weekend Specials is a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997. It featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated. Similar to both the ABC Afterschool Special and The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie that had started five years previous, the ABC Weekend Specials differed in that it was primarily aimed at younger viewers following ABC's Saturday Morning cartoon lineup, whereas the ABC Afterschool Special was known for its somewhat more serious, and often dramatic storylines dealing with issues concerning a slightly older teen and pre-teen audience. With the debut of the ABC Weekend Specials, some of the early ABC Afterschool Specials that had been targeted towards younger viewers were subsequently repackaged and re-run instead as ABC Weekend Specials.

ABC Weekend Specials

1977

General Electric Theater poster
6.8

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

General Electric Theater

1953

General Electric Theater poster
6.8

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

General Electric Theater

1953

Behind the camera