Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6321 Hollywood Boulevard. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray.". With her British husband, the actor Leslie Fenton, Dvorak travelled to England where she supported the war effort by working as an ambulance driver, and worked in several British films. She retired in 1951, and lived her remaining years in anonymity, until her death in Honolulu, Hawaii. Chuck Jones said of her: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. A dispute over her pay led to her terminating her contract and working as a freelance artist, but although she worked regularly, the quality of her scripts declined sharply. Squirrel (Rocky). Known for her style and elegance, she was a popular leading leading for Warner Brothers during the 1930s, and appeared in numerous contemporary romances and melodramas. Most recognizable, though, is her work for Jay Ward: she played nearly every female on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, including Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick, and (against sex) Rocket J.

Howard Hughes groomed her as a dramatic actress and she was a success in such films as Scarface (1932), as the object of Paul Muni's affection, and opposite Spencer Tracy in Sky Devils (1932). She appeared on the Smurfs, George of the Jungle, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas; she was the voice of the original "Chatty Cathy" doll, and is a voice on the Disney attraction "Pirates of the Caribbean" as the wife of the man getting dunked ("Don't tell him, Carlos!"). She began working for MGM in the late 1920s as a dance instructor and gradually began to appear on film in small musical roles. For Walt Disney, she played "Lucifer the Cat" in the feature film Cinderella; she did a variety of voices in Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker cartoons; for Warner Brothers she was Granny, owner of Tweety and Sylvester, and, memorably, a series of witches including Witch Hazel for Chuck Jones. Born Anna McKim in New York, New York, Dvorak was the daughter of silent actress Anna Lehr and director and actor Samuel McKim, and as a child appeared in several films. In the 1940s she began film work as well, including a few appearances acting in live action movies, but mostly doing voice overs for animated cartoons. Ann Dvorak (August 2, 1912 in film–December 10, 1979) was an American film actress. Two years later she moved to Los Angeles, California, and soon became a popular voice actress on radio there, including on the national programs of Jimmy Durante and Danny Thomas.

Foray was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years of age; by age of 15 she was doing regular radio voice work. June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an extremely versatile voice actor who has worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s.