Jane WithersFilmography

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Actors: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline

Synopsis: After the critical and commercial success of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, the Walt Disney Pictures animation studio embarked on their most serious and ambitious animated feature to date with this adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Notre Dame de Paris. Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Shirley Temple - America's Little Darling

Synopsis: Tommy Tune and others talk about the unique childhood acting and dancing career of Shirley Temple in this video. Her signature song, "On the Good Ship Lollipop," was first sung for audiences in her film Bright Eyes in 1934. Shirley's ability to capture the hearts of the public became most evident Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Ship of Thieves

Synopsis: Former jewel thief turned insurance investigator Dennis Stanton (Keith Michell) has changed professions once more, and is now chief of security on a cruise ship. When a woman is found dead in the ship's cargo section, it soon develops that virtually everyone on board is either a thief or a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?

Synopsis: Imagine the astonishment of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) when she picks up a newspaper and reads that she has been killed in a Texas car accident! In truth, the dead woman was Marge Allen (Jane Withers), arguably the most obsessive member of the Jessica Fletcher Fan Club. While impersonating Read More

All Together Now

Actors: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Even though he was pushing thirty, John Rubinstein was still fresh-faced enough to pass for a college student in 1975's All Together Now. Rubinstein plays the oldest of four orphans, who wishes to be named legal guardian for his younger siblings. The court gives Rubinstein thirty days to prove Read More

The Munsters: Grandpa's Lost Wife

Synopsis: While perusing the pages of Shocking Detective magazine, Herman is surprised to see a "wanted" poster with Grandpa Munster's picture! It turns out that the poster was submitted by one Pamela Thornton (Jane Withers) of Sioux City, Iowa, who insists that Grandpa (Al Lewis) is her long-lost husband. Read More

The Munsters: Pike's Pique

Synopsis: Gas company executive Borden T. Pike (Richard Deacon) wants to lay a new pipe in the basement of the Munster mansion. Unfortunately, Pike's employees run away in terror whenever they catch a glimpse of the monstrous (but harmless) Munster family. Figuring that the Munsters are deliberately Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: How to Get Rid of Your Wife

Actors: Bob Newhart, Jane Withers, Joyce Jameson, Mary Scott, George Petrie

Synopsis: After 15 miserable years of matrimony, mousy Gerald Swinney (a superbly cast Bob Newhart) asks his wife, Edith (Jane Withers), for a divorce. She refuses, at which point Gerald stammers, "Well, uh, Edith, I guess I'll, uh, have to get rid of you." No, Gerald doesn't intend to murder Edith Read More

Captain Newman, M.D.

Actors: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, Bobby Darin, James Gregory

Synopsis: Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a Southwestern army base during the waning days of World War II. Newman is a patriarchal protector to his patients, preferring to keep him in his ward, rather than return them to Read More

The Right Approach

Actors: Juliet Prowse, Frankie Vaughan, Martha Hyer, Gary Crosby, David McLean

Synopsis: This is a routine drama about Leo Mack (Frankie Vaughn) a good-for-nothing, aspiring actor who goes to Hollywood and then ruins one life after another. Based on a stage play by the late Garson Kanin and adapted by his brother, scripters Michael Kanin and his wife Fay Kanin, the story is one long Read More

Giant

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers

Synopsis: George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its 210-minute running time, making it one of the few epics of its era that continues to hold up as engrossing entertainment across the decades. Giant Read More

Danger Street

Actors: Jane Withers, Robert Lowery, Bill Edwards, Elaine Riley

Synopsis: Having just come into a $375,000 trust fund on her 21st birthday, former child star Jane Withers certainly didn't need to star in the Pine-Thomas melodrama Danger Street, but she was determined to prove her worth as an adult dramatic actress. Withers and Robert Lowery costar as Pat Marvin and Read More

Affairs of Geraldine

Actors: George Carleton, Tanis Chandler, Harry V. Cheshire

Synopsis: Brothers Henry and Wayne Cooper (Grant Withers and William Haade) have a mission to help their younger, shyer sister, Geraldine Jane Withers, who has just received a large inheritance from their mother. It was their dying mother's request that the brother's find a suitable suitor for their younger Read More

My Best Gal

Actors: Jane Withers, Jimmy Lydon, Frank Craven, Fortunio Bonanova, George Cleveland

Synopsis: A druggist's pretty assistance ignores the call of the bright lights and audience that runs in the veins of her show biz family. Eventually though, the family succeeds in getting the talented lass to perform the music of a struggling young composer. His music is great and she enthusiastically Read More

Faces in the Fog

Actors: Jane Withers, Paul Kelly, Lee Patrick, John Litel, Eric Sinclair

Synopsis: In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom takes the rap and is thrown out of school. The bride's enraged father shoots the boy. At the trial the bride lies on the stand to save her dad. Things work out, and the young Read More

Johnny Doughboy

Actors: Jane Withers, Henry Wilcoxon, William Demarest, Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis: A grown-up Jane Withers is joined by a whole slew of former child stars in the lightweight Republic musical Johnny Doughboy. Withers capably essays the part of a teenaged movie star who tires of the spotlight and runs away from Hollywood. Adopting an alias, she joins "The Junior Victory Caravan" Read More

The North Star

Actors: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Farley Granger, Ann Harding

Synopsis: In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya (Dana Andrews), Kurin (Walter Huston), Damian (Farley Granger), and Marina (Anne Baxter) are members of a farming collective in the Ukraine known as the North Star. The hard-working Read More

Young America

Actors: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, William Tracy, Ben Carter

Synopsis: Young America is not so much a Jane Withers vehicle as a 73-minute advertisement for the 4-H clubs of America. Cast against type, Withers plays a spoiled-brat urban girl who is shipped off by her exasperated parents to work on a 4-H farm. At first, she manages to alienate every one of her youthful Read More

The Mad Martindales

Actors: Jane Withers, Marjorie Weaver, Alan Mowbray, Jimmy Lydon, Byron Barr

Synopsis: With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end. 16-year-old Withers is cast as Kathy Martindale, the youngest member of a wacky turn-of-the-century San Francisco household. A dedicated suffragette, Kathy occasionally takes Read More

Small Town Deb

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Bruce Edwards, Cobina Wright, Jr., Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: Jane Withers, 20th Century-Fox's second-feature Shirley Temple, plays the favorite daughter of a wealthy man (Cecil Kellaway). Real-life debutante Cobina Wright Jr. plays Jane's snobbish sister, who is pushed into society by her mother (Katherine Alexander). The hostility between the down-to-earth Read More

A Very Young Lady

Actors: Jane Withers, Nancy Kelly, John Sutton, Janet Beecher, Richard Clayton

Synopsis: Though it isn't obvious from the outset, A Very Young Lady is a remake of 20th Century-Fox' Girl's Dormitory; both films were based on a Hungarian play by Ladislas Fodor. Stepping into the old Simone Simon role is Jane Withers as hoydenish Kitty Russell, who is packed off to finishing school in Read More

Golden Hoofs

Actors: Jane Withers, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, George Irving, Buddy Pepper, Cliff Clark

Synopsis: In this drama, a female horse trainer works on her grandpa's farm training trotters. Trouble ensues when he is forced to sell his land to a millionaire who endeavors to replace the trotters with regular racehorses. The trainer ends up falling for the new owner. Even though her favorite horse loses Read More

Her First Beau

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Jane Withers, Edith Fellows, Josephine Hutchinson, William Tracy

Synopsis: In this drama, two childhood sweethearts endure the first pains of adult love. The young lady is beginning to feel frustrated because her beau has been spending too much time building gliders. When his uncle is visited by a cute, and flirtatious older friend, the precocious lass begins dating him. Read More

Shooting High

Actors: Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Kay Aldridge

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's Shooting High. Instead of playing "himself" as he usually does, Autry is cast as Will Carson, whose family is engaged in a decades-long feud with the Pritchard clan. The Read More

Youth Will Be Served

Actors: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Roberl Conway, Elyse Knox, Joe Brown, Jr.

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for making moonshine. While there, a local developer endeavors to buy up the camp. To save it, the young woman stages an elaborate camp show. The developer is enchanted and changes Read More

High School

Actors: Jane Withers, Joe Brown, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan, Claire Du Brey, Lynne Roberts

Synopsis: Unlike Shirley Temple, Jane Withers was permitted to "grow up" in her 20th Century-Fox vehicles. Since Withers was 13 going on 14 in 1940, it was only natural that she should star in a film titled High School. Fresh from her family's Texas cattle ranch, rambunctious Jane Wallace (Wither) is sent Read More

A Girl From Avenue "A"

Actors: Jane Withers, Kent Taylor, Kay Aldridge, Elyse Knox, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: In this comedy drama based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and set in the 1800s, a wealthy playwright rescues a beautiful street urchin from the cruel city streets to use her as an authentic source of street language for his newest play. His whole family gets in an uproar when she comes to stay, but Read More

Boy Friend

Actors: Jane Withers, Arleen Whelan, Richard Bond, Douglas Fowley, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: There was no getting around the fact that child star Jane Withers was growing up in a hurry by the time she made The Boy Friend. To its credit, Withers' home studio 20th Century-Fox took into consideration the star's blossoming womanhood by allowing her to have her first on-screen romance. The Read More

Pack up Your Troubles

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jane Withers, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Lynn Bari, Joseph Schildkraut, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and the boys end up working as mule skinners in France. While there, they meet a French officer's American daughter. Mayhem ensues when they are mistaken German spies Read More

The Chicken Wagon Family

Actors: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Weaver, Spring Byington, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Barry Benefield, Chicken Wagon Family affords nearly equal screen time to child star Jane Withers and veteran character actor Leo Carrillo. Tired of living in the boonies, itinerant merchant J. P. B. Fiffany (Carrillo) packs his family into his ramshackle wagon and sets out for Read More

Always in Trouble

Actors: Jane Withers, Jean Rogers, Arthur Treacher, Robert Kellard, Eddie Collins

Synopsis: Arranging to leave her father J.C. Darlington (Andrew Tombes) behind, frisky teenager Jerry (Jane Withers) convinces Pete Graham (Robert Kellard), from her father's New York office, to pilot the family yacht. They're recently rich, but thoroughly spoiled, including Jerry's mother (Nana Bryant) Read More

Keep Smiling

Actors: Jane Withers, Gloria Stuart, Henry Wilcoxon, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: In this comedy a young girl dreams of becoming a Hollywood movie star. The plucky gal decides to grab the bull's horns one day and goes there to see if her uncle, a movie director will help her launch her career. Unfortunately she discovers that her "famous' relative has fallen onto hard-times and Read More

Rascals

Actors: Jane Withers, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox

Synopsis: Perhaps the best of Jane Withers' 20th Century-Fox vehicles, Rascals is also the one that pops up most frequently on televisoin. Withers plays Gypsy, the youthful queen of a band of wandering vagabonds. Joining Gypsy and her fellow gypsies is amnesia victim Margaret Adams (Rochelle Hudson), who Read More

Arizona Wildcat

Actors: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Pauline Moore, William Henry, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: In this sunny western, a mischievous young girl living in the Arizona territory during the 1870s, causes all kinds of trouble while trying to prove that her foster-daddy did not steal a gold shipment. Later, the step-dad, a former outlaw, re-gathers his gang to find the real culprit -- a shady Read More

The Holy Terror

Actors: Jane Withers, Tony Martin, Leah Ray, Joan Davis, El Brendel

Synopsis: Is it any surprise that hoydenish child star Jane Withers plays the title role in The Holy Terror? This time she plays Corky Wallace the irrepressible daughter of Naval Air Service Lt. Commander Wallace (John Eldredge), spending her spare time staging all-aviator musical shows. One of these Read More

Angel's Holiday

Actors: Jane Withers, Robert Kent, Joan Davis, Sally Blane, Harold Huber

Synopsis: Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye (Sally Blane) and her companion Stivers (Joan Davis). Reporter Nick Moore (Robert Kent), once sweet on Pauline, is Read More

45 Fathers

Actors: Jane Withers, Richard Carle

Synopsis: The 45 Fathers of the title are the elderly members of the Gun and Spear Club, all of whom jointly adopt mischievous orphan girl Judith Frazier (Jane Withers) and her pet monkey. Our heroine wastes no time patching up the various family problems of her new "daddies." Of utmost priority are the Read More

Checkers

Actors: Jane Withers, Stuart Erwin, Una Merkel, Marvin Stephens, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: The owner of a racehorse, the owner's lovely niece and a jockey must deal with a number of travails before the big race in this comedy. The uncle must win so he can afford to keep the bank from foreclosing on his horse farm. Unfortunately, his horse breaks his leg and all seems to be lost. Read More

Wild and Woolly

Actors: Jane Withers, Walter Brennan, Pauline Moore, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Jackie Searl

Synopsis: Wild and Woolly stars young Jane Withers as a hoydenish resident of a modern frontier town. Revelling in the town's 50th anniversary celebration, Jane is brought down to earth by the long-standing feud between her ex-desperado grandfather (Walter Brennan) and a pompous politician (Berton Read More

Gentle Julia

Actors: Jane Withers, Tom Brown, Marsha Hunt, Jackie Searl, Francis Ford

Synopsis: After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the film stars Withers as Florence Atwater, precocious kid-sister of flirtatious Julia Atwater (Marsha Hunt). After spending most of the Read More

Little Miss Nobody

Actors: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Ralph Morgan, Sara Haden, Harry Carey

Synopsis: In this children's movie, a feisty little orphan with high moral standards is literally imprisoned in a terrible orphanage. She is elated to discover that she is actually the daughter of a prominent lawyer who has been searching for her, but when she sees that another little girl needs a daddy Read More

Pepper

Actors: Jane Withers, Irvin S. Cobb, George "Slim" Summerville, Dean Jagger, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: Jane Withers plays "little Miss Fixit" in Pepper with a minimum of sentimental goo and a maximum of laughs. Though she's been warned not to do so, Pepper Jolly (Withers) intrudes upon the solitude of grouchy old millionaire John Wilkes (Irvin S. Cobb). Her unbridled good spirits virtually Read More

Can This Be Dixie?

Actors: Jane Withers, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Sara Haden

Synopsis: This musical satire parodies Southern living as it follows the exploits of a traveling medicine show that ends up on a bankrupt plantation. It is just as well as Doc Gurgle and his daughter have just lost their show. The plantation is run by a Kentucky colonel. Young Miss Gurgle and her pa decide Read More

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, George "Slim" Summerville, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Henry Fonda made his screen debut in this filmization of his Broadway success The Farmer Takes a Wife. The story is set along the Erie Canal in the 1850s. Fonda plays a farmer who takes a river job to make ends meet. He falls in love with Janet Gaynor, daughter of a canal-boat cook, who thinks Read More

This Is the Life

Actors: Jane Withers, John McGuire, Sally Blane, Sidney Toler, Gloria Roy

Synopsis: Marshall Neilan had fallen from the top ranks of directors by the time he helmed the Jane Withers vehicle This is the Life, but he still had it in him to deliver a first-rate job. Withers is cast as pint-sized vaudeville artiste Geraldine Revier. Tired of being professionally exploited by her Read More

Ginger

Actors: Jane Withers, O.P. Heggie, Jackie Searl, Katherine Alexander, Walter Woolf King

Synopsis: A rich, melancholy family adopts poor orphan Jane Withers who brightens their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Paddy O'Day

Actors: Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Jane Darwell, George Givot

Synopsis: Eight year old Paddy O'Day (Jane Withers) arrives at Ellis Island after a long sea voyage from Ireland, to be with her mother. But her mother is nowhere to be found when the ship docks, and the authorities are notified that Mrs. O'Day has died, only a few days ago -- the little girl will have to Read More

Bright Eyes

Actors: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson

Synopsis: Despite stiff competition like Poor Little Rich Girl and Heidi, Bright Eyes is arguably the best of Shirley Temple's 1930s vehicles. The little curly-top is cast as Shirley Blake, daughter of Mary Blake (Lois Wilson), the widowed housemaid of snooty J. Wellington and Anita Smythe (Theodore Von Eltz Read More

It's a Gift

Actors: W.C. Fields, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Kathleen Howard, Baby Le Roy

Synopsis: W.C. Fields is in fine fettle as small-town grocer Harold Bissonette (pronounced Biss-o-NAY). Harold dreams of becoming a California orange farmer, but his gorgon wife (Kathleen Howard) will have none of it. After a grueling day at the store, during which his electric light stock is destroyed by a Read More