JANE WITHERS - DOCUMENT SIGNED CIRCA 1940 - HFSID 173362

JANE WITHERS. Partly Printed DS: "Jane Withers", No place, but Los Angeles, California, no date but circa December 1940. To the right of her signature, Withers has drawn a stick figure that she has labeled: "me". Typed information form listing Withers' full name (Jane Ruth Withers), citizenship (U.S.), place of birth (Georgia), address and telephone number and marital status (single). In the year she signed this document, Withers appeared in four films: Youth Will Be Served, Girl From Avenue A, Shooting High and High School. 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. Lightly creased with folds, vertical folds at the "a" of Jane and "h" in Withers. Slightly nicked at lower left and right edges. Overall, fine condition.