As a child Bernadette Withers began acting in small uncredited film roles, including a child at an audition in ''
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), and parts in Stranger at My Door (1956) and All Fall Down (1962). She went on to play Valerie in The Trouble with Angels'' (1966). Withers found guest-starring roles in numerous television series. On
Leave It to Beaver she played Kitty in
Wally’s Glamour Girl (Season 4, Episode 10), and on
Wagon Train she played Alma Hardy in
The Jonas Murdock Story (Season 3, Episode 27). She was also in
Buffalo Bill, Jr.,
Father Knows Best,
My Three Sons, and
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. During the 1964 television season she had the recurring role of Janis on
Karen. ==Later life==