- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Jane Withers
- Date of Original:
- 1934/1939
- Subject:
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Child actors--United States
Girls--United States
Actresses--United States
Actors--United States
Celebrities--United States
Withers, Jane, 1926- - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1934 Jane Withers won the part of Joy in the film Bright Eyes, starring Shirley Temple, the most popular child actor in Hollywood at the time. Withers's successful performance led to a contract with Fox Studios and to her first starring role in the 1935 film Ginger.
Photograph of child actor and Atlanta, Georgia native Jane Withers. She wears a dress decorated with embroidered anchors and a beret.
Before Jane Withers became one of the most popular child actors of the 1930s, she performed in vaudeville and on her own radio show in Atlanta. Initially gaining fame in 1934 as the little girl who roughed up Shirley Temple in the film Bright Eyes, Withers maintained a successful career in the film industry for more than a decade. As an adult, Withers returned to the profession and successfully reestablished herself as a character actor during the 1950s. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jane-withers-1926-2021/m-7341/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Classic Movie Kids
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jane-withers-b-1926
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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