She starred with Shirley Temple in 'Bright Eyes' and as the bubbly Josephine the Plumber in scores of TV commercials for Comet cleanser.
Withers died Saturday in Burbank, her daughter Kendall Errair announced. “My mother was such a special lady,” she said in a statement. “She lit up a room with her laughter, but she especially radiated joy and thankfulness when talking about the career she so loved and how lucky she was.”
The dark-haired, scrappy Withers was one of the top child actors of the 1930s. She appeared in 23 films from, when she starred alongside The Ritz Brothers, and was among the 10 highest-grossing actors in Hollywood in 1937 and ’38. Temple reportedly was terrified of Withers during the shooting, but the two would become fast friends. The good-natured Withers toldin February 2014 that she phoned her pal, then known as Shirley Temple Black, every year on her birthday.
After she left acting to raise a family in the late 1940s, Withers was lured out of retirement by director George Stevens — she had enrolled at USC to study directing — to appear in the epicDuring shooting of the film, she and Dean were close. She would wash his favorite pink cowboy shirt every night , and he would pick it up the next day. Withers had the shirt on Sept. 30, 1955, when Dean was killed in a car accident.
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