Jane Withers, a child star of the 1930s and 1940s ... excessively” – she returned to acting with an appearance in Giant (1956), a Texas-set epic drama in which she was the homely, straight ...

There were Jane Withers mystery books ... badminton court and giant playroom, and later, when she was a teenager, a beauty salon and a soda fountain. All this, she believed totally, was God ...

hitting pay dirt in Giant (1956), a critical and box-office hit starring James Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Jane Withers struck up a firm friendship with Dean, washing daily the pink ...

Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled ... Her most notable credits were "Giant" (1956) and "Captain Newman, M.D." (1963). In 1947, Withers left Hollywood to live with her first ...

Jane Withers, a former child movie star who won ... George Stevens cast her as neighbor Vashti Snythe in his 1956 epic “Giant,” alongside Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean.