1. Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers was an English entertainer.
32 Facts About Googie Withers
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Googie Withers was a dancer and actress, with a lengthy career spanning some seventy-three years in theatre, film, and television.
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Googie Withers was a well-known actress and star of British films during and after the Second World War.
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Googie Withers 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.
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Googie Withers won the inaugural British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 1955.
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Googie Withers became used to the nickname and decided to keep it as her stage name.
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Googie Withers began acting at the age of twelve, and was student at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, and at the dance school of Buddy Bradley, where she learnt ballet and tap.
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Googie Withers was a dancer in a West End production when she was offered work as a film extra in Michael Powell's The Girl in the Crowd.
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Googie Withers arrived on the set to find one of the major players in the production had been dismissed, and she was immediately asked to step into the leading role, beginning a seven year contract with Warner Brothers, after which she worked for Fox British, Ealing Studios and The Rank Organisation.
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Googie Withers was in Windfall and The Love Test, and she had the lead in All at Sea.
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Googie Withers supported in Dark World, King of Hearts, and Accused.
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Googie Withers had the lead in You're the Doctor and was back to support for Kate Plus Ten.
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Googie Withers continued in support roles in Paid in Error and Strange Boarders.
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Googie Withers was in a Will Hay film Convict 99 and supported Jack Buchanan in The Gang's All Here.
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Googie Withers was in a Robert Montgomery film Busman's Honeymoon and was reunited with Buchanan in Bulldog Sees It Through.
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Googie Withers was still supporting comics in Back-Room Boy with Arthur Askey.
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Googie Withers played Helen, a significant second lead in the Clive Book-directed 1944 comedy On Approval.
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Googie Withers was in They Came to a City, directed by Basil Dearden, and was one of several stars in Dead of Night.
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Googie Withers was given a star part in Pink String and Sealing Wax.
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Googie Withers then starred in It Always Rains on Sunday, which was one of the biggest hits of the year.
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Googie Withers took 13 months off following the birth of her first child, then returned to star as a doctor in White Corridors, one of the most popular films of the year in Britain.
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Googie Withers was one of many cameos in The Magic Box and was in a play Winter Journey.
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Googie Withers made three films with her husband, Derby Day, Devil on Horseback, and Port of Escape.
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Googie Withers first toured Australia in the stage play Simon and Laura.
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Googie Withers starred on Broadway with Michael Redgrave in The Complaisant Lover, and in London with Alec Guinness in Exit the King.
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Googie Withers returned to films with the lead in Nickel Queen, directed by McCallum.
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Googie Withers was in The Cherry Orchard on Australian TV.
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Googie Withers starred in the BBC adaptation of Hotel du Lac, which was followed a year later by another BBC production, Northanger Abbey.
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Googie Withers died on 15 July 2011 at her Sydney home, aged 94.
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Googie Withers was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia for services to drama, in the 1980 Australia Day Honours List.
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Googie Withers was a JC Williamson Award recipient for lifetime achievement in 1999.
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Googie Withers was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1971, when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews whilst thinking she was going to be interviewed by her close friend Godfrey Winn.