The Great June Foray Passes Away

[sansradio]

And now here's something you really won't like:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/june-foray-dead-rocky-flying-792600

[marv2]

She really was great! Rest in peace June. Thank you.

[robb_k]

Her funny voices were one of the main reasons I liked Jay Ward's and Bill Scott's cartoons on Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tales, Mr. Peabody, and Dudley Do-Right of The Mounties. She had a repetoire of hundreds of characters with different qualities covering all the different emotions and character types. For many years, she did most of the female voices for The Warner Brothers' cartoon shorts. She was the female counterpart to Mel Blanc. She even did a fair amount of work for Disney.

[marv2]

Her funny voices were one of the main reasons I liked Jay Ward's and Bill Scott's cartoons on Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tales, Mr. Peabody, and Dudley Do-Right of The Mounties. She had a repetoire of hundreds of characters with different qualities covering all the different emotions and character types. For many years, she did most of the female voices for The Warner Brothers' cartoon shorts. She was the female counterpart to Mel Blanc. She even did a fair amount of work for Disney.

My favorite was Natasha!

[moe]

She was also the voice of "Talky Tina" in The classic Twilight Zone episode with Telly Savalas........and that was a scary one!!

[marv2]

She was also the voice of "Talky Tina" in The classic Twilight Zone episode with Telly Savalas........and that was a scary one!!

I remember that episode. Wow!

[robb_k]

My favorite was Natasha!

Imagine having June and Mel Blanc as guests at a party! We'd all have had to bring piss bottles. We'd have been rolling in the aisles, and pulling stomach muscles from all the laughing, and would have been wetting our pants! They would have been deadly.

It would be like comedy writing get togethers [[brainstorming sessions) I've had with fellow writers.

Or, even better, the time at The Hofbrau Haus in Munich at Oktoberfest, when I watched 7 stiff shirted conservative Japanese tourists [[wearing black suits and pencil thin black ties), loosen up by getting progressively blotto, clicking their supersized beer steins together trying to sing Bavarian drinking songs, and finally pulled up onto the stage by a traditional Bavarian folk [[Oom-Pah-Pah) band leader, who got them quickly dressed in Bayrish lederhosen and traditional Bayrish feathered hat, attempting badly, to learn the "Knee Slapping Folk Dance". I can't remember ever seeing anything funnier.

[marv2]

Imagine having June and Mel Blanc as guests at a party! We'd all have had to bring piss bottles. We'd have been rolling in the aisles, and pulling stomach muscles from all the laughing, and would have been wetting our pants! They would have been deadly.

It would be like comedy writing get togethers [[brainstorming sessions) I've had with fellow writers.

Or, even better, the time at The Hofbrau Haus in Munich at Oktoberfest, when I watched 7 stiff shirted conservative Japanese tourists [[wearing black suits and pencil thin black ties), loosen up by getting progressively blotto, clicking their supersized beer steins together trying to sing Bavarian drinking songs, and finally pulled up onto the stage by a traditional Bavarian folk [[Oom-Pah-Pah) band leader, who got them quickly dressed in Bayrish lederhosen and traditional Bayrish feathered hat, attempting badly, to learn the "Knee Slapping Folk Dance". I can't remember ever seeing anything funnier.

Imagine them being at a kids party in the 60s where the kids were definitely know all of the cartoon characters they did the voices for. If it were for me, I'd drive them crazy by my requests. "Ok now do Bugs Bunny, do Rocky, do Natasha.....etc" LOL!!!!