The best Jane Withers’s comedy movies

Jane Withers

Jane Withers

12/04/1926- 07/08/2021
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jane Withers’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jane Withers.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
4.6/10
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.

Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D.
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 25/12/1963
  • 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.

The Good Fairy

The Good Fairy
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/02/1935
  • 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.

Danger Street

Danger Street
5.6/10
Magazine owners (Jane Withers, Robert Lowery) sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

High School

High School
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1940
  • 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.

Paddy O'Day

Paddy O'Day
6/10
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds (Pinky Tomlin) and a beautiful Russian singer (Rita Hayworth) provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child (Jane Withers) who has arrived illegally in New York. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 comedy, with numerous songs, also features Jane Darwell, George Givot, Robert Dudley, Vera Lewis, Louise Carter, Francis Ford, Russell Simpson and Clarence Wilson.

Can This Be Dixie?

Can This Be Dixie?
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 13/11/1936
  • Character: Peg Gurgle
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife
6.4/10
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Her First Beau

Her First Beau
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1941
  • 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.

Golden Hoofs

Golden Hoofs
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1941
  • Character: Jane Drake
A teenage horse trainer (Jane Withers) fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

Chicken Wagon Family

Chicken Wagon Family
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1939
  • 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.

Wild and Woolly

Wild and Woolly
6.6/10
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!

Angel's Holiday

Angel's Holiday
6.4/10
Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye (Sally Blane) and her companion Stivers (Joan Davis). Reporter Nick Moore (Robert Kent), once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan (Harold Huber) decides to get involved.

Pepper

Pepper
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/08/1936
  • 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.

Boy Friend

Boy Friend
6/10
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.

Affairs of Geraldine

Affairs of Geraldine
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 18/11/1946
  • 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.

Rascals

Rascals
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1938
  • Character: Gypsy
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite (Hundson) who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.

Shooting High

Shooting High
5.8/10
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

A Very Young Lady

A Very Young Lady
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1941
  • 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.

Ginger

Ginger
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/07/1935
  • 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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