Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 20, 1896
Died
Sep 03, 1968
Place of Birth
Frankton, Indiana, USA
Credits
49 titles
Isabel Withers
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Four Star Playhouse
Doris
Monkey Business
Laundress (uncredited)
The Sniper
Desk Nurse (uncredited)
Goodbye, My Fancy
Typist (Uncredited)
The Fuller Brush Girl
Mrs. Finley (uncredited)
A Wonderful Life
Jennie Wood
Undertow
Abandoned
Mrs. Humes (uncredited)
Air Hostess
Miss Fish
The Fountainhead
Secretary (uncredited)
Shockproof
Switchboard Operator (Uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy
Maid (Uncredited)
Possessed
Nurse Rosen
A Likely Story
Nurse (uncredited)
The Guilt of Janet Ames
(uncredited)
That Brennan Girl
Miss Pendergast (uncredited)
Mysterious Intruder
Miss Gordon (Uncredited)
Deadline at Dawn
Nurse (uncredited)
The Undercover Woman
Penny Davis
The Lost Weekend
Woman Before Pawn Shop (uncredited)
Girls of the Big House
Alma's Cell Warden
The Gay Senorita
Kitty
A Sporting Chance
Susan Bailey
The Missing Corpse
Miss Patterson (uncredited)
I Love a Mystery
Miss Osgood, Ellen's Nurse (Uncredited)
Tahiti Nights
She Wolf
Ever Since Venus
Miss Murray (uncredited)
Stars on Parade
Mrs. O'Rourke (uncredited)
Law Men
Auntie Mack
Beautiful But Broke
Mrs. Grayson
Six Gun Gospel
Miss Elvira
Mr. Lucky
Blood Bank Nurse (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
Well-Wisher at Train (uncredited)
Sweater Girl
Mrs. McGill
Henry and Dizzy
Laura Stevens
Blondie Goes to College
Mrs. Stringer
Our Wife
Middle-Aged Woman in Jerry's Stateroom (uncredited)
Manpower
Head Nurse (uncredited)
No Time for Comedy
First-Nighter (uncredited)
The House Across the Bay
Woman in Club
Four Wives
Nurse Telling Jenkins It's a Boy (uncredited)
Dust Be My Destiny
Jail Matron (uncredited)
Off the Record
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Brother Rat
Nurse
Crash Donovan
Mrs. Horner (uncredited)
Ladies They Talk About
Prisoner (uncredited)
Women Won't Tell
Wanda Wolf
Easy to Get
The Wife
The Hot Spot
Mrs. Burke