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In 1930, Young, then 17, eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona.
Young was married to actor Grant Withers from 1930 to 1931.
Clay married Susannah Claiborne Withers on April 4, 1815.
He married Mary Withers Wilkinson in 1832.
In 1948 he married the British actress Googie Withers, with whom he appeared in a large number of films.

Withers and actress
* March 12 – Googie Withers, British actress ( d. 2011 )
* Isabel Withers ( 1896 – 1968 ), stage, motion picture, and television actress.
* January 20 – Isabel Withers, American actress ( died 1968 )
Within These Walls, a prison drama starring veteran actress Googie Withers, seems to have inspired the later Australian soap opera Prisoner Cell Block H. Lillie was based on the real-life story of Lillie Langtry, and saw Francesca Annis reprising the role from ATV's Edward the Seventh, and The Gentle Touch starring Jill Gascoine was the UK's first drama series with a female police detective in the lead role.
In the 1960s, Hollywood actress Jane Withers gained fame as " Josephine the Plumber ", a character in a long-running and popular series of television commercials for " Comet " cleansing powder that lasted into the 1970s.
Georgette Lizette " Googie " Withers CBE, AO ( 12 March 191715 July 2011 ) was an English theatre, film and television actress.
Withers and McCallum were the parents of three children ; actress Joanna McCallum, art director Nicholas and Amanda.
Jane Withers ( born April 12, 1926 ) is an American actress.
Beginning a prolific career as a child actress at the age of three, Withers is a Young Artist Award – Former Child Star " Lifetime Achievement " Award honoree, best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of " Josephine the Plumber " in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s.
" In 1979, Withers was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its very first Former Child Star " Lifetime Achievement " Award recognizing her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.
Withers was the heroine of two novels, Jane Withers and the Hidden Room ( 1942, by Eleanor Packer ) and Jane Withers and the Phantom Violin, ( 1943, by Roy J. Snell ), published by Whitman Publishing Company, where " the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person.
" However, in 1944's Jane Withers and the Swamp Wizard ( 1944, by Kathryn Heisenfelt ), " the heroine is identified as a famous actress ".

Withers and Nicholas
The AOC executive consists of John Coates ( President ), Ron G Harvey ( Vice President ), Peter Montgomery ( Vice President ), Craig Phillips ( Secretary General ), Lynne Beates, Helen M Brownlee, Ian Chesterman ( Chef de Mission, 2006 Winter Olympic Team ), J Douglas Donaghue, Nicholas Green, Michael V Wenden, Russell Withers, Tom King ( Chair, Athlete's Commission ) and Jacqui Cooper ( Deputy Chair, Athlete's Commission ).

Withers and 1973
He won the Withers Stakes before heading to Elmont, New York for the Belmont Stakes where he captured the Triple Crown by scoring a 25-length victory, a record margin that stood until 1973.
After recording the 1971, You're So Beautiful album, Gadson, Dunlap, Jackson, and Blackmon left the Watts Band to work with Bill Withers, playing on the albums Still Bill ( 1972 ) and Live at Carnegie Hall ( 1973 ).
* Live at Carnegie Hall ( Bill Withers album ), a 1973 album by Bill Withers.

Withers and during
* Wild and Woolly was used again in a 1937 comedy western starring Jane Withers about a bank robbery during a town's anniversary party.
Googie Withers took over as Amanda during the run.
Classic quiet storm recordings include Frankie Beverly and Maze's " Golden Time of Day ," Marvin Gaye's " Let's Get It On ", the orchestrations of Philadelphia soul, the recordings of Al Green, Barry White, and Bill Withers, much of jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery's work during his CTI ( Creed Taylor, Incorporated ) years, and the work of jazz-funk saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr.
Banyule is the birthplace of the internationally recognised Heidelberg School of Art, which was formed when a group of iconic artists, including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin, Walter Withers, Charles Conder and others moved to a shack on Mount Eagle ( now known as Eaglemont ) and began painting the landscape in a uniquely Australian way during the late 1880s.
It was later bought by David D. Withers, George L. Lorillard, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and George P. Wetmore after which Withers ran the facility for more than a decade during which time he helped found racings Board of Control, a predecessor to The Jockey Club.
While Buddah primarily focused on singles, several of its album releases, including Brewer & Shipley's Tarkio ( 1970 ), Bill Withers ' Still Bill ( 1972 ), and most notably Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly ( 1972 ), also charted well during this period.
He enjoyed working with director Milestone and fellow cast members Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan and Jane Withers, and during filming he met composer Aaron Copland, who remained a friend in later years.
The highlight of the album was his collaboration with soul artist Bill Withers, " Just the Two of Us ," a huge hit on radio during the spring and summer of 1981, peaking at No. 2 on the Hot 100.
Gleason also is remembered for playing police inspector Oscar Piper in a series of six Hildegarde Withers mystery films during the 1930s, starting with Penguin Pool Murder.
Frederick Clarke Withers ( 1828 – 1901 ) joined the firm during its second year.
After the dismissal of the Whitlam government on 11 November 1975, Withers was appointed to Malcolm Fraser's first ( caretaker ) ministry, becoming Vice-President of the Executive Council as well as briefly holding the portfolios of Special Minister of State, Capital Territory, Media, and Tourism and Recreation during the period leading up to the December election.
Songs they have partially covered in between songs during their concerts include Bill withers ' " Use Me ( Bill Withers song )", Slayer's " Raining Blood ", Alice In Chains ' " Man in the Box " as well as many others.
Furthermore, in a somewhat controversial move, for a time it referred to itself on-air as WMIX, with an announcer whispering its true calls hurriedly during hourly legal IDs ; however, the use of WMIX as a brand was short-lived, as the owners of the WMIX stations in Mount Vernon, Withers Broadcasting, registered the " WMIX " branding as a registered trademark.

Withers and her
Anna Bligh, who won the 2009 Queensland State election, has been accused of nepotism by giving her husband Greg Withers a position in the bureaucracy.
Later productions were Edith Evans and Friends ( 1974 ); a revival of On Approval ( Frederick Lonsdale ) with Geraldine McEwan and Edward Woodward ( 1975 ); The Circle, with Googie Withers and John McCallum ( 1976 ); Rosmersholm ( Ibsen ) with Claire Bloom and Daniel Massey ( 1977 ); The Millionairess ( Shaw ), with Penelope Keith ; Waters of the Moon again, starring Wendy Hiller and Ingrid Bergman in her last stage role ( both 1978 ); and Keith Michell and Susan Hampshire in The Crucifer of Blood ( 1979 ).
In the film, Marbles appears as a hearty, tweed-clad Englishwoman with a frail, seemingly senile companion — her ancient " nurse " Miss Withers ( Estelle Winwood )— for whom she is now caring.
While filming The Loves of Joanna Godden ( 1947 ), Withers met her co-star, the Australian actor John McCallum.
In 2004, Withers came back into the news when a character on the ITV soap Coronation Street, Norris Cole, quipped that " Googie Withers would turn in her grave ".
Withers died on 15 July 2011 at her Sydney home, aged 94.
Gladys eventually lived in Ryde, Isle of Wight, with her uncle and aunt Michael and Laura ( née Withers ) Maybrick before marrying Frederick James Corbyn in Hampstead, London, in 1912.
Shirley Blake ( Shirley Temple ) and her mother Mary ( Lois Wilson ), a maid, live in the home of her employers, the rich and mean-spirited Smythe family, Anita ( Dorothy Christy ), J. Wellington ( Theodore von Eltz ), and Joy ( Jane Withers ).
Mrs. Temple hovered ever closer to Shirley as filming began and ordered Withers to wash her hands before performing in any scene with her daughter.
In a 2006 interview on TCM's Private Screenings, Withers recalled that she was hesitant to take the role because she had to be so " mean " to Temple and the public would hate her for it.
He notes that some critics believed Withers stole the show, and it was this " as much as anything else, that earned Withers her own starring series at 20th Century-Fox ".
Among her graded stakes race wins were the 1966 Withers and Jim Dandy Stakes and the 1967 Fall Highweight Handicap with the colt " Indulto ".
In the late 1960s, the Ashbys gave up touring and settled in California where Dorothy broke into the studio recording system as a harpist through the help of the soul singer Bill Withers, who recommended her to Stevie Wonder.
In the early 1930s, Withers and her mother moved to Hollywood where she worked as a child model and a bit part player in several films in 1932 and 1933.
In a 2006 interview on TCM's Private Screenings with Robert Osborne, Withers recalled that she was hesitant to take this role because she had to be so " mean " to Shirley Temple and she thought the public would hate her for it.
" Withers received positive notices for her work, and was awarded a long-term contract with Fox.
Moviegoers flocked to see her films, and Withers became one of the top 10 box-office stars in 1937 and 1938.
Withers received excellent notices for her dramatic performance in Lewis Milestone's The North Star.

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