Jane Withers

You can feel the hand of the publicity department trying to smooth things over for the rest of the country.

January 2, 1946. photographed with Jane Withers at Earl Carroll's Hollywood Club fundraiser.

He, May 12th, 1946, photographed with Sonia Heaney at Ciro's.

And from the Los Angeles Evening Citizen in March of that year, Joan Loring visiting with John Dahl at Universal International.

And then there's this other piece by Sheila Graham from, again, I mean, I think it's syndicated, but also from the New Orleans State item.

This is from March of 1946.

Jane Withers talks about men, and John Dahl heads her list.

I have lunch with Jane Withers, and we get to talking about men.

That would have been a shame.

So Jane Withers is my favourite guest star that she's brought in from the golden age of Hollywood.

So I love celebrating these older women and I love lifting them up.

And one of the, you're right, one of the great things about the show is there's an apocryphal story that she used to get roles for older women, especially who might be losing their SAG membership or their health insurance.

But these women are like Margaret O'Brien, who was in Meet Me in St. Louis, and these amazing actors, Murray Windsor's in it.

They're really fantastic.

But the one who's in it who I really love... is Jane Withers.

So Jane Withers was a contemporary of Shirley Temple.