Isabel Withers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isabel Withers (January 20, 1896 – September 3, 1968) was an American actress, who worked in theatre, film and television. In her youth, Withers lived in Coffeyville, Kansas and Illinois. She attended school in Kansas City, Missouri. She later enrolled in a school of drama in Kansas City and joined a Chautauqua circuit repertoire company. At the time it was playing in Billings, Montana performing The Melting Pot, a play by Israel Zangwill. Following a route of tented colleges, Withers first appeared on the road in Little Women. She played the leading role in The Tailor Made Man after a season in stock theatre in Utica, New York. She performed in Cappy Ricks in Chicago. George M. Cohan selected Withers for the lead feminine role, with Lowell Sherman, in the Chicago company of The Tavern. In New York City she appeared in Kempy at the Belmont Theater. While in New York Withers modeled for an exclusive gown shop during the day. Henry Duffy wired her to come to San Francisco, California to do Kempy just as she was on her way to visit her mother in Los Angeles. She made her way south acting in Love Em and Leave 'Em and Rain. Withers starred in Rain at the old Orpheum Theater, 12th Street, San Francisco, California, in November 1926. Drawing comparisons to actress Jeanne Eagels, she drew praise in the role of Sadie Thompson. Withers accumulated ninety-two screen and television credits, beginning with a role in the movie The Hot Spot (1931). Many of her screen appearances were uncredited parts. She was also in her share of B-movies. Two memorable movies in which she had uncredited parts were The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and Monkey Business (1952). She performed on television during the 1950s in such shows as Four Star Playhouse (1955), Lassie (1956), The Millionaire (1957), and The Bob Cummings Show (1958). Isabel Withers died in 1968 in Hollywood, California, aged 72.

Фільмографія

• Four Star Playhouse — Doris
• 1952Monkey Business — Laundress (uncredited)
• 1952The Sniper — Desk Nurse (uncredited)
• 1951Goodbye, My Fancy — Typist (Uncredited)
• 1950A Wonderful Life — Jennie Wood
• 1950The Fuller Brush Girl — Mrs. Finley (uncredited)
• 1949Abandoned — Mrs. Humes (uncredited)
• 1949Air Hostess — Miss Fish
• 1949Shockproof — Switchboard Operator (Uncredited)
• 1949The Fountainhead — Secretary (uncredited)
• 1949Undertow
• 1948You Gotta Stay Happy — Maid (Uncredited)
• 1947A Likely Story — Nurse (uncredited)
• 1947Possessed — Nurse Rosen
• 1947The Guilt of Janet Ames — (uncredited)
• 1946Deadline at Dawn — Nurse (uncredited)
• 1946Mysterious Intruder — Miss Gordon (Uncredited)
• 1946That Brennan Girl — Miss Pendergast (uncredited)
• 1946The Undercover Woman — Penny Davis
• 1945A Sporting Chance — Susan Bailey
• 1945Girls of the Big House — Alma's Cell Warden
• 1945I Love a Mystery — Miss Osgood, Ellen's Nurse (Uncredited)
• 1945The Gay Senorita — Kitty
• 1945The Missing Corpse — Miss Patterson (uncredited)
• 1945Загублений вікенд — Woman Before Pawn Shop (uncredited)
• 1944Beautiful But Broke — Mrs. Grayson
• 1944Ever Since Venus — Miss Murray (uncredited)
• 1944Law Men — Auntie Mack
• 1944Stars on Parade — Mrs. O'Rourke (uncredited)
• 1944Tahiti Nights — She Wolf
• 1943Mission to Moscow — Well-Wisher at Train (uncredited)
• 1943Six Gun Gospel — Miss Elvira
• 1943Містер Щасливчик — Blood Bank Nurse (uncredited)
• 1942Blondie Goes to College — Mrs. Stringer
• 1942Henry and Dizzy — Laura Stevens
• 1942Sweater Girl — Mrs. McGill
• 1941Manpower — Head Nurse (uncredited)
• 1941Our Wife — Middle-Aged Woman in Jerry's Stateroom (uncredited)
• 1940No Time for Comedy — First-Nighter (uncredited)
• 1940The House Across the Bay — Woman in Club
• 1939Dust Be My Destiny — Jail Matron (uncredited)
• 1939Four Wives — Nurse Telling Jenkins It's a Boy (uncredited)
• 1939Off the Record — Telephone Operator (uncredited)
• 1938Brother Rat — Nurse
• 1936Crash Donovan — Mrs. Horner (uncredited)
• 1933Ladies They Talk About — Prisoner (uncredited)
• 1932Women Won't Tell — Wanda Wolf
• 1931Easy to Get — The Wife
• 1931The Big Scoop — Mother
• 1931The Hot Spot — Mrs. Burke