JANE WITHERS - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1944 - HFSID 80867

JANE WITHERS. Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Roger -/You're a Grand Fella/and I wish you the best/of everything always -/Jane/Withers". Sepiatone, 8x10. Circa 1944. In the year she signed this photograph, Withers appeared in two feature films, Faces in the Fog and My Best Gal. Jane Withers (1926-2021) was taught to sing and dance before she was three. At four, she was starring on her own radio program in Atlanta, doing imitations of such celebrities as Greta Garbo, ZaSu Pitts and Maurice Chevalier. Relocating to Hollywood with her mother in 1932, Jane began her film career with bit parts, eventually (at age eight) winning the plum role of the obnoxious brat who bedevils sweet little Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes. This role won Jane a contract at Fox Studios, and for the next seven years she starred in a series of comedies and musicals. Her later films included Giant (1956) and Captain Newman, M.D., and Withers has also voiced a number of animated TV characters and guest starred on several TV series, from The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949) to Murder, She Wrote (1993). To TV viewers of the 1960s and 1970s, Withers will be forever associated with her long-running (and extremely lucrative) stint as Josephine the Plumber in a popular series of commercials for Comet cleanser. Slightly creased at blank corners. Lightly silvered at dark areas of background. Penciled date (unknown hand) on verso (no show through). Fine condition.