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How former JANE WITHERS got her part + her friendship w/James Dean in GIANT (former child star, alive @ 93 +)
posted by LentejuelaSTAFFMOD on September 17, 2019 at 12:22 AM
Enjoyable Article from Jane Wither's chat with Anne Jeffreys at the TCM Film Festival 2013 Vanity Fair party.
You tube video on how GIANT Director George Stevens casted Jane Withers in the Texas epic
You tube video (3:45): JAMES DEAN: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS with Jane Withers, co-star of "Giant" where Jane Withers remembers one night when she discovered James Dean had snuck into her room and how she laid down the law that night.
Her Wikipedia biography -- born in April 12, 1926 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, alive at 93.
Reply by genplant29
on September 17, 2019 at 8:39 PM
Neat recollections! I hadn't thought about Ms. Withers in quite some time and am glad to learn that she's still with us.
I last saw her on a TCM round-table type interview special that late TCM host Robert Osborne conducted with multiple former child stars in 2006. (I didn't see that when it originally aired, but caught a rerun of it roughly five years ago.) She seems like a warm, genuine, very upbeat, likeable person.