Jane Withers

Jane Withers interests me as the spirited counterweight to the era's saccharine child stars. Coming out of Atlanta, she built her fame not on cuteness but on playing the bratty, mischievous kid audiences secretly loved, and her box office ranking in 1937 and 1938 proves it landed. What I respect most is her longevity: she lived to 95 and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, surviving the brutal trap that swallows most child actors. To be remembered fondly that long, in a business that discards children fast, is its own quiet achievement.

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Name (English)

Jane Withers

Name (Japanese)

ジェーン・ウィザース

Reading

じぇーん・うぃざーす

Born

April 12, 1926 – August 7, 2021

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Occupation

actor / child actor / television actor / model / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Withers
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432833

Tags

• Georgia
• actor
• child actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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