Jane Withers

Jane Withers 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 AwardFormer 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 StyneSammy Cahn torch song Guess Ill Hang My Tears Out to Dry in 1944 in Glad To See You, a Broadwaybound musical which closed out of town in Philadelphia.

Withers was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Ruth and Walter Withers who taught Bible class at the local Presbyterian church. She began her career as a child actress at the age of three, first on local radio broadcasts in Atlanta as Dixies Dainty Dewdrop. In the early 1930s, Withers and her mother moved to Hollywood where she worked as a child model and a bit part player in several films in 1932 and 1933. Her big break came when she landed a supporting role in the 1934 Shirley Temple film Bright Eyes. Her character Joy Smythe was spoiled and obnoxious, a perfect foil to Temples sweet personality.

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