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Maltin on Movies

Jobeth Williams

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.3665 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jobeth Williams is part of our communal moviegoing experience. She's in such milestone films as Kramer vs. Kramer, Poltergeist, and The Big Chill and has scores of television shows and miniseries under her belt, including Adam and The Day After. She costars in the recently released Not Without Hope, now available on VOD. She spent many years involved with the Screen Actors Guild Foundation and has earned an emeritus title for her willingness to give back to her fellow performers. Jessie knows and loves her best for her appearance in Jungle 2 Jungle, which was directed by her husband, John Pasquin.

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0:31.4

Hi, I'm Linda Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton. You're listening to Malton on movies and our guests today.

0:40.3

No stranger to movies or TV.

0:43.3

She's been at a long time and she's in a new movie called Not Without Hope.

0:48.3

I'm talking about our guest, Jo Beth Williams.

0:51.3

Welcome.

0:52.3

Thank you. I am thrilled to be here.

0:57.0

It's wherever here is, right? I'm thrilled to be wherever the hell it is that we are right.

1:03.0

And where are you, where are you guys, by the way?

1:05.0

We are in luxurious Sherman Oaks, California.

1:08.0

Oh, you're not that far from me.

1:10.0

There you go. We'll go out of the boulevard and wave.

1:12.6

Okay.

1:13.6

So one of the first things we talk about, obviously, whenever we are pitched a guest and are

1:19.6

excited to say yes, is what's the first thing you recognize them from?

1:22.6

Well, so I'm going through my things and my dad says, I'll never forget the first time I saw her and I said

1:29.8

why and then he describes the scene in Kramer versus Kramer and I said yep that I would not forget

1:36.7

that either no forget that either yeah I won't forget it either because I had never done a nude scene and that was pretty

1:48.3

intimidating for my first movie, I'll tell you.

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