Jane Withers

Jane Withers (born April 12, 1926) is an American actress.

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April 12 - 1926 - American

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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, recently married and in her early twenties, Withers retired for several years from acting. In 1956, she had a supporting role in the film Giant.

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Atlanta, Georgia - Hollywood - The Farmer Takes a Wife - Little Miss Nobody - Giant

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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.

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Withers was born in Atlanta.

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