Jane Withers Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts

She began her entertainment career at the age of three and, during the Golden Age of Radio, hosted her own children’s radio program in her home city of Atlanta, Georgia. In 1932, she and her mother moved to Hollywood, where she appeared as an extra in many films until landing her breakthrough role as the spoiled, obnoxious Joy Smythe opposite Shirley Temple’s angelic orphan Shirley Blake in the 1934 film Bright Eyes. She made 38 films before retiring at age 21 in 1947.^[1] She returned to film and television as a character actor in the 1950s. From 1963 to 1974, she portrayed the character Josephine the Plumber in a series of television commercials for Comet cleanser. In the 1990s and early 2000s, she did voice work for Disney animated films. She was interviewed in numerous documentary retrospectives of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was also known for her philanthropy and her extensive doll collection.

Jane Withers Wiki, Biography

Jane Withers was born on April 12, 1926, in Atlanta, Georgia, the only child of Walter Edward Withers and Lavinia Ruth (née Elble) Withers. Ruth had had her own aspirations to be an actress nixed by her parents. She determined before Jane was born that she would have one daughter who would go into show business, and chose the name Jane so that “even with a long last name like Withers, it would fit on a marquee”. Ruth taught Sunday school and Walter taught Bible classes in their local Presbyterian church. The family recited blessings at mealtime and devoted themselves to charitable works, which stood with Jane her entire life. Both in Atlanta and in Hollywood, the family would invite “six busloads of orphan children” to come to their home after church and Sunday school for lunch and afternoon entertainment.

When Jane was two, Ruth enrolled her in a tap dance school, and also taught her to sing. Jane launched her entertainment career at the age of three^[4] after winning a local amateur contest called Dixie’s Dainty Dewdrop.^[10] She was cast on Aunt Sally’s Kiddie Revue, a Saturday-morning children’s program broadcast on WGST radio in Atlanta, in which she sang, danced, and did impersonations of film stars such as W. C. Fields, ZaSu Pitts, Maurice Chevalier, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, and Greta Garbo. At age 3½ she had her own radio show called Dixie’s Dainty Dewdrop, where she also interviewed celebrities who were visiting Atlanta.

Personal life

In May 1947, Withers announced her engagement to William (Bill) Moss, a Texas entrepreneur and film producer, after a two-year courtship.^[117] They married on September 20, 1947.^[118] The couple lived on ranches in Midland, Texas, and New Mexico^[40] with their three children. They separated in April 1953 and Withers was granted a divorce in July 1954, citing her husband’s “excessive drinking and gambling”.^[118] She received a $1 million property settlement, including monthly alimony and child support, trust fund and insurance fund for the children, and a half-interest in Texas oil fields owned by Moss, as well as full custody of the children.^[118] Suffering from emotional strain over the impending divorce, Withers was hospitalized for five months in 1953 with severe rheumatoid arthritis and developed complete paralysis. She recovered with no lasting effects.

In October 1955, Withers remarried, to singer Kenneth Errair of The Four Freshmen, with whom she had two more children.^[1] In June 1968, Errair died in a plane crash near Bass Lake, California.^[121] One of Withers’s sons later died of cancer.

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Net Worth

The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.