Jane Withers

Jane Withers

Born: April 12, 1926
Died: August 7, 2021
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
Character: Gargoyle Laverne (voice)
Released: February 5, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Title: Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary explores that his of the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Opened on May 18, 1927 as Grauman's Chinese Theater, it immediately drew attention from the public, and, more importantly, from those in the entertainment industry. Hosted by Raquel Welch.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)
Released: June 21, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Title: Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Alma Sobel
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Marge Allen
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Gladys
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Weekend Special
Released: September 10, 1977
Type: TV
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.
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All Together Now
Title: All Together Now
Character: Helen Drummond
Released: February 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.
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Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Title: Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.
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Title: The Munsters
Character: Fanny Pike
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.
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Captain Newman, M.D.
Title: Captain Newman, M.D.
Character: Lt. Grace Blodgett
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Edith Swinney
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
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.
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The Right Approach
Title: The Right Approach
Character: Liz Fargo
Released: May 17, 1961
Type: Movie
An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
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Title: Pete and Gladys
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
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.
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The Heart is a Rebel
Title: The Heart is a Rebel
Character: Grace
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s acceptance of Christ. THE HEART IS A REBEL features the beloved Ethel Waters, and is set against Billy Graham’s historic 1957 New York City Crusade, with color scenes of the Crusade at Madison Square Garden.
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Armored Attack!
Title: Armored Attack!
Character: as Clavdia Kurin
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Giant
Title: Giant
Character: Vashti Synthe
Released: November 8, 1956
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Betty Hamilton
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
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.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Sue Ann Baines
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
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.
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Danger Street
Title: Danger Street
Character: Pat Marvin
Released: June 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
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Affairs of Geraldine
Title: Affairs of Geraldine
Character: Geraldine Cooper
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
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Peeks at Hollywood
Title: Peeks at Hollywood
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
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Faces in the Fog
Title: Faces in the Fog
Character: Mary Elliott
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
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....
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My Best Gal
Title: My Best Gal
Character: Kitty O'Hara
Released: March 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
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The North Star
Title: The North Star
Character: Clavdia Kurin
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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Johnny Doughboy
Title: Johnny Doughboy
Character: Ann Winters / Penny Ryan
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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The Mad Martindales
Title: The Mad Martindales
Character: Kathy Martindale
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Jane Campbell
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Title: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Small Town Deb
Title: Small Town Deb
Character: Patricia Randall
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
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A Very Young Lady
Title: A Very Young Lady
Character: Kitty Russell
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play
Title: Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Her First Beau
Title: Her First Beau
Character: Penelope 'Penny' Wood
Released: May 8, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Golden Hoofs
Title: Golden Hoofs
Character: Jane Drake
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Youth Will Be Served
Title: Youth Will Be Served
Character: Eadie-May
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
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The Girl from Avenue A
Title: The Girl from Avenue A
Character: Jane
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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Shooting High
Title: Shooting High
Character: Jane Pritchard
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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High School
Title: High School
Character: Jane Wallace
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Colette
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Addie Fippany
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Boy Friend
Title: Boy Friend
Character: Sally Murphy
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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The Arizona Wildcat
Title: The Arizona Wildcat
Character: Mary Jane Patterson
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
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Always in Trouble
Title: Always in Trouble
Character: Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
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Keep Smiling
Title: Keep Smiling
Character: Jane Rand
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Rascals
Title: Rascals
Character: Gypsy
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Checkers
Title: Checkers
Character: Checkers
Released: December 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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45 Fathers
Title: 45 Fathers
Character: Judy
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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Wild and Woolly
Title: Wild and Woolly
Character: Arnette Flynn
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
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!
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: June 'Angel' Everett
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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The Holy Terror
Title: The Holy Terror
Character: Corky
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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Can This Be Dixie?
Title: Can This Be Dixie?
Character: Peg Gurgle
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
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Pepper
Title: Pepper
Character: Pepper Jolly
Released: August 8, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Judy Devlin
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Gentle Julia
Title: Gentle Julia
Character: Florence Atwater
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Paddy O'Day
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Geraldine Revier
Released: October 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Title: The Farmer Takes a Wife
Character: Della
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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Ginger
Title: Ginger
Character: Ginger
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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The Good Fairy
Title: The Good Fairy
Character: Child, Orphanage Sequence (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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Bright Eyes
Title: Bright Eyes
Character: Joy Smythe
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.