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... that on the day she began filming her first starring role in Ginger, nine-year-old
Jane Withers received congratulatory bouquets from
W. C. Fields and President
Franklin D. Roosevelt? Source: "Two huge baskets of flowers arrived on the set. ... So I opened up one card and it read, 'To my little friend, Jane, one swell girl. Knock 'em dead, kid, you're going to be great'. ... The other one said, 'To my little friend, Jane, God bless you, I know you are going to be one of our greatest stars in America. Your friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt'". (
Movies Were Always Magical)
ALT1:... that in the 1935 film Ginger, nine-year-old
Jane Withers impersonates
Greta Garbo and recites lines from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet? Source: "In the film, Withers does imitations of actresses ZaSu Pitts and Greta Garbo" (
AFI Catalog); "she burlesques Greta Garbo and Zasu Pitts and enacts the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet without making it ridiculous." (
Brooklyn Daily Eagle)