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There's hardly any information about her later life. I wish I knew more so I could add it--Breezy hwesta 09:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC) I added a brief bit of triviaBreezy hwesta 01:57, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Subsections

added subsections instead of sections.NietzscheSpeaks (talk) 03:45, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More info

In 2006, Withers appeared on a Turner Classic Movies panel discussion on what it was like to be a child actor in Hollywood, Private Screenings: Child Stars. She was interviewed by Robert Osborne along with Darryl Hickman, Dickie Moore, and Margaret O'Brien. It is rebroadcast intermittently (I saw it in 2010 when it was broadcast as part of Jane Withers day at TCM).

These are some of the things I remember about her: She talked about having a severe bout of arthritis (rheumatoid, maybe?) which kept her in bed for at least a year, if not more. Her appearance in Giant was a big come-back for her following her illness. She also talked about writing Small Town Deb as a vehicle that would give her a more mature role to play rather than the juvenile roles she was stuck in. I can't remember if she mentioned that she wrote others.

From the article as it stands today: Withers also took a flyer in screenwriting. . . What does that mean? Do you mean it as the American idiom, meaning to take a chance or a risk? If so, people coming to the article from other countries may be as confused as I am about it (and I am an American). She seems to have written it on her own without a commission. If that's what you mean, I encourage you to say so. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 18:28, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsense

"(they wed on September 20, 1947), and had three children by him — William, Wendy, and Randy. Randy died in 1986. The marriage lasted six years until their divorce on July 20, 1955." ... That's at least 7 years of marriage, almost 8. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.240.68 (talk) 13:58, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Filmography table sourcing

Yoninah If you source the filmography for each item, I'll do a GA review for this. Here are some good sources to help you:

UCLA Film and Television Archive - listings for Jane Withers

American Film Institute listings for Jane Withers

Let me know. — Maile (talk) 19:21, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, as a matter of style, I think the Bibliography is usually placed right above the External links. — Maile (talk) 19:37, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Maile. But the Filmography is fully sourced. Anything that doesn't have an inline cite is sourced to the main sources at the bottom. If I were to copy that source again and again, wouldn't it look weird in the footnotes?

How do you want the sections to go? References—Further Reading—Sources—External links? Yoninah (talk) 19:48, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, no. I was thinking more along the sourcing lines of: Gloria Swanson or Film career of Audie Murphy GA structure. Maybe those aren't the norm at GA?. I only know how my own got approved. My idea was that you click on the individual title in the source, and it opens to an individual page with all the details of that particular film - and use the individual page as the source. And you do that one-by-one. It can be a lot of work. Bibliography and Further Reading should be stacked one after the other, above the External links. — Maile (talk) 20:34, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maile, that's not my experience. See my Filmography for James Dunn (actor). You also have more than 200 footnotes in Gloria Swanson! I've never seen that. Asking me to source each title individually would basically create dozens of cites to the same webpage, which would look pretty odd in the footnotes. I moved the Bibliography down. Yoninah (talk) 23:32, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah Well, you have almost 150 citations. When I first started having my work reviewed, I thought citations in numbers like that was overkill, but it's not necessarily out of the ballpark for anything going through a review process. Anyway, I'll do this review for you. But I'll start tomorrow with fresh energy. It's a little late in the day right now. — Maile (talk) 00:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. Yoninah (talk) 00:54, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Typo in quote?

From 'Child Stardom', this quote:

> I never had a [acting] lesson in my life

should be

> I never had an [acting] lesson in my life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Distinction_between_a_and_an

because [acting] is silent but still part of the sentence?

Darcourse (talk) 06:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Her "Broadway" show with Shirley Temple

It's amazing to this getting its way around since it has appeared in a few obituaries. This show, "Sure, Sure, Shirley" is clearly a parody of the popular "No, No Nanette." The NY Times article cited, which is also clearly a parody, cites the revival of the 20's styles in the 1970's. But, there are no other records of this show, not iBDB, no programs, no recordings, no pictures, no citations beyond this one NY Times article. This article needs to mention that the NY Times article is a parody. Ditto21688 (talk) 22:18, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]