Googie Withers
(1917-2011), ActorGeorgette Lizette ('Googie') Withers
Sitter in 3 portraits
Born Georgette Lizette Withers in Karachi, India, she made her film debut in The Girl in the Crowd in 1934. She also appeared in Ealing productions such as Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) and It Always Rains on a Sunday (1947) in which she starred opposite John McCallum, whom she married in 1948. Critically acclaimed stage roles included those in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea (1952), before Withers moved with McCallum to his native Australia in the late 1950s.
Googie Withers in 'Convict 99'
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1938
NPG x34526
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1949
NPG x75968
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