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. After a series of minor roles as a child actress, Withers was cast by Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1934 "Bright Eyes," as the nemesis of lovable Temple, then Hollywood’s most popular star. "I had to play the meanest, creepiest little girl that God ever put on this planet," Withers recalled in.
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