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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Googie Withers, actress, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews - with the help of journalist Godfrey Winn - at Thames Television's Euston Road Studios, having been led to believe she was there to take part in a programme about famous mothers and their daughters.

Googie was born in Karachi, India, and raised in Birmingham after her family relocated to the UK. She studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and began her professional career as a dancer in a West End revue before moving into films in the mid-1930s. She had lead roles in several minor films and supporting roles in more prestigious productions such as Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

By the 1940s, she had established herself as a leading actress, starring in such films as One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Pink String and Sealing Wax, and It Always Rains on Sunday. She often appeared with her husband, the actor John McCallum, with whom she emigrated to Australia in 1958, where she predominantly worked in theatre while raising a family.

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Googie Withers Biography

Date of Birth:
Mar 12, 1917Birth Place:
Karachi, British India

Biography

A notable British film and stage actress in England where she grew up and Australia which would become her adopted home, Googie Withers became best known for a series of melodramas at Ealing Studios in the 1940s and proved herself a versatile character player in her later years. She was born to a British career officer and a Dutch mother in a part of India that later became Pakistan. Withers was convent-educated in England, and studied acting and dancing before her stage debut in 1929. While she kept busy in theater during the 1930s, she also broke into films in 1934 with "The Girl in the Crowd." In the mid-30s, she cut back on her stage work to concentrate on her film career, but was confined mostly to second leads in both fairly big films and near "quota quickies" made to fulfill Britain's self-imposed Quota Law. She supported Dolores Del Rio and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in "Accused" (1936), acted for Michael Powell in the likable low-budgeter "The Love Test" (1935) and pl

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Googie Withers

British actress and entertainer (1917–2011)

Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers (12 March 1917 – 15 July 2011) was an English entertainer. She was a dancer and actress, with a lengthy career spanning some nine decades in theatre, film, and television. She was a well-known actress and star of British films during and after the Second World War.

She often featured in British productions, primarily in films with actor and producer John McCallum, whom she married and, in the late 1950s, emigrated together to her husband's native Australia, where they became best known in theatre. During the 1970s, she played prison governor Faye Boswell in the TV series Within These Walls, and continued to feature in films.^[2] She won the inaugural British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 1955.^[3]

Biography

Withers was born in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan), to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and Lizette Wilhelmina Katarina, of Dutch, French and German descent.^[4]^[5]^[6] She