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Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
Character: Herself (uncredited)
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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Peeks at Hollywood (1946)
Character: N/A
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)
Character: N/A
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
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Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling (1993)
Character: Self
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
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Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941)
Character: Self
Jane Withers entertains her teenage friends with archery and jitterbug dancing; Cesar Romero and Patricia Morison play backgammon; Rita Hayworth supervises the building of her new home; stars gather at Santa Anita for the San Antonio handicap.
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All Together Now (1975)
Character: Helen Drummond
Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.
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Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife (1974)
Character: Self
Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.
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45 Fathers (1937)
Character: Judy
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
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Golden Hoofs (1941)
Character: Jane Drake
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Youth Will Be Served (1940)
Character: Eadie-May
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
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Pepper (1936)
Character: Pepper Jolly
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)
Character: Gargoyle Laverne (voice)
Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda's and Phoebus' little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch's assistant.
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Wild and Woolly (1937)
Character: Arnette Flynn
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
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Little Miss Nobody (1936)
Character: Judy Devlin
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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High School (1940)
Character: Jane Wallace
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
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Affairs of Geraldine (1946)
Character: Geraldine Cooper
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
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Young America (1942)
Character: Jane Campbell
Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
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Bright Eyes (1934)
Character: Joy Smythe
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
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Can This Be Dixie? (1936)
Character: Peg Gurgle
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
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The Heart is a Rebel (1958)
Character: Grace
While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s acceptance of Christ. THE HEART IS A REBEL features the beloved Ethel Waters, and is set against Billy Graham’s historic 1957 New York City Crusade, with color scenes of the Crusade at Madison Square Garden.
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Small Town Deb (1941)
Character: Patricia Randall
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
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Shooting High (1940)
Character: Jane Pritchard
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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Danger Street (1947)
Character: Pat Marvin
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
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Checkers (1937)
Character: Checkers
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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Paddy O'Day (1936)
Character: Paddy O'Day
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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The Right Approach (1961)
Character: Liz Fargo
An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
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The Girl from Avenue A (1940)
Character: Jane
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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My Best Gal (1944)
Character: Kitty O'Hara
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
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Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
Character: Addie Fippany
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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This Is the Life (1935)
Character: Geraldine Revier
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
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Angel's Holiday (1937)
Character: June 'Angel' Everett
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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The Mad Martindales (1942)
Character: Kathy Martindale
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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Armored Attack! (1957)
Character: as Clavdia Kurin
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
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Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Character: Lt. Grace Blodgett
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
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A Very Young Lady (1941)
Character: Kitty Russell
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
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The Good Fairy (1935)
Character: Child, Orphanage Sequence (uncredited)
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Character: Additional Laverne Dialogue (voice)
Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo's tyranny.
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Giant (1956)
Character: Vashti Synthe
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
Character: Little Girl in Lobby (uncredited)
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Ginger (1935)
Character: Ginger
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
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Johnny Doughboy (1942)
Character: Ann Winters / Penny Ryan
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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The Arizona Wildcat (1939)
Character: Mary Jane Patterson
In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
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Always in Trouble (1938)
Character: Geraldine "Jerry" Darlington
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
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The Holy Terror (1937)
Character: Corky
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.
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Imitation of Life (1934)
Character: Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Rascals (1938)
Character: Gypsy
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
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Boy Friend (1939)
Character: Sally Murphy
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
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Gentle Julia (1936)
Character: Florence Atwater
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
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Her First Beau (1941)
Character: Penelope 'Penny' Wood
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
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The North Star (1943)
Character: Clavdia Kurin
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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Keep Smiling (1938)
Character: Jane Rand
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
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Faces in the Fog (1944)
Character: Mary Elliott
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
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