A few days late:
Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95She was a 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.
Aug. 9, 2021, 8:25 AM EDT
By The Associated Press
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.
Withers, also known as “Josephine the Plumber” from TV commercials in the 1960s and ’70s, died Saturday, her daughter Kendall Errair said. Withers was one of the last remaining stars from the 1930s and 1940s, the height of Hollywood studio dominance. ...
As an adult she appeared in a few films and on television.
Her biggest prominence came from portraying “Josephine” in TV commercials for Comet cleanser for 12 years. ...
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