Jane Withers

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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. Born : 12th-Apr-1926

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Giant

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Released : 8th-Nov-1956

Youth Will Be Served

A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Released : 22nd-Nov-1940

Armored Attack!

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
Released : 1st-Jan-1957

Captain Newman, M.D.

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
Released : 25th-Dec-1963

Bright Eyes

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.
Released : 28th-Dec-1934

Angel's Holiday

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.
Released : 7th-Jun-1937

Paddy O'Day

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.
Released : 17th-Jan-1936

Danger Street

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
Released : 20th-Jun-1947

Ginger

Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
Released : 4th-Jul-1935

The Farmer Takes a Wife

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Released : 5th-Jul-1935

Pack Up Your Troubles

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Released : 24th-Oct-1939

The Right Approach

An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
Released : 17th-May-1961

Little Miss Nobody

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Released : 5th-Jun-1936

High School

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Released : 26th-Jan-1940

Johnny Doughboy

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.
Released : 31st-Dec-1942

Always in Trouble

Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Released : 28th-Oct-1938

Shooting High

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
Released : 25th-Apr-1940

Hollywood Hobbies

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
Released : 3rd-May-1939

The Good Fairy

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.
Released : 18th-Feb-1935

Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play

Jane Withers entertains her teenage friends with archery and jitterbug dancing; Cesar Romero and Patricia Morison play backgammon; Rita Hayworth supervises the building of her new home; stars gather at Santa Anita for the San Antonio handicap.
Released : 29th-May-1941

The North Star

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
Released : 4th-Nov-1943

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II

Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda's and Phoebus' little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch's assistant.
Released : 6th-Feb-2002

Small Town Deb

Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
Released : 7th-Nov-1941

Chicken Wagon Family

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.
Released : 10th-Aug-1939

This Is the Life

A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
Released : 7th-Oct-1935

Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling

There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
Released : 31st-Aug-1993

My Best Gal

A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
Released : 28th-Mar-1944

Faces in the Fog

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....
Released : 30th-Nov-1944

Affairs of Geraldine

When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
Released : 18th-Nov-1946

Pepper

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.
Released : 8th-Aug-1936

Boy Friend

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.
Released : 19th-May-1939

The Arizona Wildcat

In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
Released : 11th-Feb-1939

Keep Smiling

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.
Released : 12th-Aug-1938

Rascals

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.
Released : 20th-May-1938

Golden Hoofs

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
Released : 14th-Feb-1941

Checkers

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Released : 8th-Dec-1937

The Mad Martindales

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Released : 15th-May-1942

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

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.
Released : 5th-Dec-1941

Mary Stevens, M.D.

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Released : 22nd-Jul-1933

All Together Now

Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.
Released : 5th-Feb-1975

Young America

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.
Released : 6th-Feb-1942

Her First Beau

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.
Released : 8th-May-1941

Peeks at Hollywood

Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Released : 26th-Jan-1946

The Holy Terror

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.
Released : 5th-Feb-1937

Imitation of Life

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.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1934

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo's tyranny.
Released : 21st-Jun-1996

A Very Young Lady

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.
Released : 27th-Jun-1941

45 Fathers

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.
Released : 26th-Nov-1937

The Girl from Avenue A

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
Released : 9th-Aug-1940

Wild and Woolly

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!
Released : 19th-Jul-1937

Can This Be Dixie?

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
Released : 13th-Nov-1936

TV Credits

Murder, She Wrote

Marge Allen - An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Released : 30th-Sep-1984

The Munsters

Fanny Pike - A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.
Released : 24th-Sep-1964

Hart to Hart

- Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
Released : 22nd-Sep-1979

General Electric Theater

Sue Ann Baines - 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.
Released : 1st-Feb-1953

ABC Weekend Special

- The ABC Weekend Special 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 Special 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 Special, 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.
Released : 10th-Sep-1977

Pete and Gladys

- 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.
Released : 19th-Sep-1960

Murder, She Wrote

Alma Sobel - An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Released : 30th-Sep-1984

General Electric Theater

Betty Hamilton - 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.
Released : 1st-Feb-1953

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self - 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.
Released : 1st-Oct-1962

The Love Boat

Gladys - 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.
Released : 24th-Sep-1977

The Mike Douglas Show

Self - 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.
Released : 11th-Dec-1961

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Edith Swinney - A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Released : 20th-Sep-1962

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