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Verna Felton (July 20, 1890, Salinas
Salinas, California

Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California in the U.S. state of California. The most current estimate from the California Department of Finance, places the 2006 population at 148,350, showing a small decline since 2000....
, California
California

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 – December 14, 1966, Hollywood, California) was an Emmy-nominated American
United States

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 actress who was best-known for providing many female voices in numerous Disney
Walt Disney Pictures

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 animated films, as well as voicing Fred Flintstone
Fred Flintstone

Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone is a fictional character who originated in the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones on American Broadcasting Company....
's mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople for Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
. Her film appearances during the 1940s included If I Had My Way (1940), Girls of the Big House (1945) and The Fuller Brush Man (1948).






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Verna Felton (July 20, 1890, Salinas
Salinas, California

Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California in the U.S. state of California. The most current estimate from the California Department of Finance, places the 2006 population at 148,350, showing a small decline since 2000....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 – December 14, 1966, Hollywood, California) was an Emmy-nominated American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress who was best-known for providing many female voices in numerous Disney
Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company:Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was found as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions....
 animated films, as well as voicing Fred Flintstone
Fred Flintstone

Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone is a fictional character who originated in the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones on American Broadcasting Company....
's mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople for Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
. Her film appearances during the 1940s included If I Had My Way (1940), Girls of the Big House (1945) and The Fuller Brush Man (1948). She was much in demand as a movie character actress during the early 1950s, including Belles on Their Toes (1952) and Don't Bother to Knock
Don't Bother to Knock

Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 in film film. The thriller stars Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes, a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where pilot Jed Towers is staying....
 (1952) and her memorable supporting role of Mrs. Potts in the film of William Inge
William Inge

William Motter Inge was an United States playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations....
's Picnic
Picnic (film)

Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope film in Technicolor which tells the story of an ex-college football star turned drifter who arrives in a small Kansas town on Labor Day and is drawn to a girl who's already spoken for....
 (1956).

Radio and television

She also worked extensively in radio
Radio programming

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, notably playing Junior the Mean Widdle Kid's grandmother on Red Skelton
Red Skelton

Richard Bernard ?Red? Skelton was an United States comedian who was best known as a top old-time radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway theatre, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, while pursuing another career as a painter....
's radio series and Dennis Day
Dennis Day

Dennis Day , born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio and television personality.Day was born and raised in New York City, the son of Irish immigrants....
's mother on The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program

The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, was a radio-TV comedy series which ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century comedy....
. She also performed on radio as a regular on The Abbott and Costello Show
Abbott and Costello

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello performed together as Abbott and Costello, an United States double act whose work in radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s....
. Felton was married to radio actor Lee Millar (1888-1941), who also did animation voices (notably for Disney's Pluto), and their son, Lee Carson Millar Jr. (1924-1980), appeared as an actor on a variety of TV shows between 1952 and 1967.

Her guest appearances on I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is an United States situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15 1951 to April 1 1960 on CBS....
 led to a regular supporting role as Hilda Crocker on the CBS sitcom December Bride, with Spring Byington
Spring Byington

Spring Byington was an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress, best remembered for working as a key MGM contract player....
, Dean Miller
Dean Miller (broadcaster)

Dean Miller, born Dean C. Stuhlmueller , was an United States actor and broadcasting, perhaps best known for his role as the son-in-law in the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom December Bride ....
, Frances Rafferty
Frances Rafferty

Frances Rafferty was an American actress, dancer, World War II pin-up girl and MGM contract star....
, and Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan is an Emmy-winning United States television actor. Morgan is perhaps best-known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H , "Pete" on Pete and Gladys and December Bride, and Detective Bill Gannon on Dragnet ....
. She continued her Hilda Crocker role on the December Bride spin-off
Spin-off

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, Pete and Gladys
Pete and Gladys

Pete and Gladys is an United States situation comedy broadcast by Columbia Broadcasting System on Monday night at 8:00pm Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960....
, starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams
Cara Williams

Cara Williams is an United States film and television actor....
.

Disney and MGM

Felton was a popular actress at the Walt Disney Studios
Walt Disney Studios

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 and MGM Studios, lending her voice to several animated features, including:
  • Dumbo
    Dumbo

    Dumbo is a 1941 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Disney animated features canon, Dumbo is based upon a child's book of the same name by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Perl....
     (1941) as The Matriarch Elephant / Mrs. Jumbo (Jumbo Jr.)
  • Cinderella
    Cinderella (1950 film)

    Cinderella is a 1950 animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and released to theaters on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. The twelfth animated feature in the List of Disney animated features, the film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, based the fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault....
     (1950) as the Fairy Godmother
  • Alice in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

    Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London, England on July 26, 1951 by RKO Pictures....
     (1951) as the Queen of Hearts
  • Lady and the Tramp
    Lady and the Tramp

    Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney, and originally released to theaters on June 22, 1955 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures....
     (1955) as Aunt Sarah
  • Sleeping Beauty
    Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)

    Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution....
     (1959) as Flora
  • Goliath II
    Goliath II

    Goliath II is an animation short film, produced by The Walt Disney Company and was released on January 21, 1960. Sterling Holloway narrates this cartoon film, starring Kevin Corcoran....
     (1960) as Eloise the Elephant
  • The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book (1967 film)

    The Jungle Book is a 1967 in film Animation feature film, released on October 18, 1967. The 19th animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, it was the last to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production....
     (1967) as Winifred the Elephant


Synchronistically, Felton died of a stroke
Stroke

A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to a disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. According to the National Stroke Association, a "stroke" occurs when a blood clot blocks and artery or a blood vessel breaks, interrupting blood flow to an area of the brain....
 on the evening of December 14, 1966, only hours before the death of Walt Disney
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
 early the following morning.

Elephants on parade

Both her first and her last voice acting roles for Disney were those of elephants, The Matriarch Elephant in Dumbo, Eloise the Elephant from Goliath II and Winifred the Elephant in The Jungle Book. Besides the two elephants, her warm character voice was versatile enough to voice two kind fairies (Fairy Godmother and Flora) and three villains (Matriarch, Queen of Hearts and Aunt Sarah).

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