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 Rai…

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Lost Weekend (1945) — Woman Before Pawn Shop (uncredited)
2. Monkey Business (1952) — Laundress (uncredited)
3. The Fountainhead (1949) — Secretary (uncredited)
4. Possessed (1947) — Nurse Rosen
5. The Sniper (1952) — Desk Nurse (uncredited)
6. Mr. Lucky (1943) — Blood Bank Nurse (uncredited)
7. Shockproof (1949) — Switchboard Operator (Uncredited)
8. Ladies They Talk About (1933) — Prisoner (uncredited)
9. Deadline at Dawn (1946) — Nurse (uncredited)
10. Undertow (1949)
11. Mission to Moscow (1943) — Well-Wisher at Train (uncredited)
12. Abandoned (1949) — Mrs. Humes (uncredited)
13. Dust Be My Destiny (1939) — Jail Matron (uncredited)
14. Manpower (1941) — Head Nurse (uncredited)
15. Mysterious Intruder (1946) — Miss Gordon (Uncredited)
16. You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) — Maid (Uncredited)
17. The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947) — (uncredited)
18. The House Across the Bay (1940) — Woman in Club
19. That Brennan Girl (1946) — Miss Pendergast (uncredited)
20. Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) — Typist (Uncredited)
21. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) — Mrs. Finley (uncredited)
22. Four Wives (1939) — Nurse Telling Jenkins It's a Boy (uncredited)
23. No Time for Comedy (1940) — First-Nighter (uncredited)
24. Four Star Playhouse (1952) — Doris
25. I Love a Mystery (1945) — Miss Osgood, Ellen's Nurse (Uncredited)
26. The Missing Corpse (1945) — Miss Patterson (uncredited)
27. Blondie Goes to College (1942) — Mrs. Stringer
28. Law Men (1944) — Auntie Mack
29. A Likely Story (1947) — Nurse (uncredited)
30. Air Hostess (1949) — Miss Fish
31. Off the Record (1939) — Telephone Operator (uncredited)
32. The Undercover Woman (1946) — Penny Davis
33. Our Wife (1941) — Middle-Aged Woman in Jerry's Stateroom (uncredited)
34. Sweater Girl (1942) — Mrs. McGill
35. Brother Rat (1938) — Nurse
36. Beautiful But Broke (1944) — Mrs. Grayson
37. Six Gun Gospel (1943) — Miss Elvira
38. Easy to Get (1931) — The Wife
39. Women Won't Tell (1932) — Wanda Wolf
40. Girls of the Big House (1945) — Alma's Cell Warden