Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95

Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the screen and went on to star in a series of B movies that made her a box-office champion, has died, her daughter said. She was 95.

It didn’t turn out that way. Critics claimed that she stole the picture from Shirley. Children wrote fan letters admiring what she did to Shirley “because she’s so perfect.” While the Temple films were made on Fox’s modern Westwood lot, Withers made hers at the old studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.Withers proved less of a draw as a teenager, and her career dwindled.Her biggest prominence came from portraying “Josephine” in TV commercials for Comet cleanser for 12 years.

Fame started early for Jane Withers. Born April 12, 1926, in Atlanta, she had appeared as Dixie’s Dainty Dewdrop on local radio by the age of 3.Jane played bit roles in movies and supplied voices for the Willie Whopper and the Looney Tunes cartoons. She explained in 1974: “Fortunately, my dad had a great love of California land. He kind of dibble-dabbled in real estate in a marvelous way.”

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