JANE WITHERS - DOCUMENT SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: MRS. W.E. WITHERS - HFSID 173361

JANE WITHERS and MRS. W.E. WITHERS. Partly Printed DS: "Jane Withers" as Subscriber and "Mrs. W.E. Withers", 1p, 4x4. No place, but California, no date. Withers, who is working for 20th-Century Fox, donates $500 to the American Red Cross War Relief Fund (to be deducted at the rate of $35.00 per week for 14 weeks). Mrs. W.E. Withers, her mother (who died of cancer in 1983), signed as Withers was a minor. 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. Irregularly cut. Lightly creased with folds, light vertical fold at the "h" of Withers. Worn at upper edge, perforated at right edge. Overall, fine condition.