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unusual facts about Googie Withers


Googie Withers

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years (with Keith Michell), Beekman Place (for which she also designed the set), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company; both productions toured Australia.


Bettina Welch

Her other stage roles include Australian productions of Harvey with Joe E. Brown, Simon and Laura and Deep Blue Sea with Googie Withers and John McCallum, the lead role opposite Emrys Jones in Double Image, and a featured role with Sir Robert Helpmann in Nude with Violin.

Robert Helpmann

He also played the manservant in the stageplay Stardust, with Googie Withers and John McCallum.

Simon and Laura

At the same time, husband-and-wife team John McCallum and Googie Withers toured it with great success in Australia, playing it in repertory with the Terence Rattigan drama The Deep Blue Sea.


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