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Encyclopedia > Jane Withers

Jane Withers (born April 12, 1926) is an American actress. April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...


Withers began her career as a child actress, first on local radio in Atlanta, Georgia (at the age of four, she was singing and imitating adult celebrities) and then, from 1932, in Hollywood films. In the mid-1930s, she appeared in several movies each year, such as The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) and Little Miss Nobody (1936). Her career slowed in the 1940s, although she appeared in 16 films over the course of that decade. In 1947, married and in her early twenties, Withers retired for several years from acting. In 1956, she had a supporting role in the film Giant. Atlanta is the capital and largest city of Georgia, a state of the United States of America. ... ... The Farmer Takes a Wife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Giant is a 1956 film which tells the story of rival ranchers and oilmen in West Texas in the middle years of the 20th century. ...


In the 1960s, Withers gained fame again as "Josephine the Plumber," a character in a long-running and popular series of television commercials for Comet cleansing powder that lasted into the 1970s.


Withers was born in Atlanta.


External links

  • IMDb.com entry for Jane Withers
  • All Movie Guide biography of Jane Withers

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Jane Withers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (410 words)
Jane Withers (born April 12, 1926 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actress best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930's and early 1940's.
Withers began her career as a child actress, first on local radio broadcasts in Atlanta, Georgia as "Dixie's Dainty Dewdrop".
In the early 1930s Withers and her family moved to Hollywood; she worked as an extra and a bit part player in several films in 1932 and 1933.
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