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Janet Waldo, Voice of Judy Jetson, Dies at 96
NYT ^ | 6-13-16 | DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Posted on 06/15/2016 8:04:46 AM PDT by bigbob

Janet Waldo, a voice-over actress who played sprightly teenagers for decades on popular cartoon shows, most notably “The Jetsons,” died on Sunday at her home in Encino, Calif. She was 96.

The television historian Stu Shostak, a friend, said the cause was an inoperable brain tumor.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cartoons; hollywood; janetwaldo; jetsons; judyjetson; obituary; sitcoms; thejetsons
Still one of the coolest shows on TV! And I'm waiting for George's space-car that folds up into a briefcase...
1 posted on 06/15/2016 8:04:46 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

I didn’t know she had even been born yet.


2 posted on 06/15/2016 8:08:30 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: bigbob

Crazy to think the original Jetsons lasted only one season of 24 episodes but remains hugely popular and influential.

I don’t consider the 80s versions to be ‘canon.’


3 posted on 06/15/2016 8:11:17 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: bigbob

RIP. Loved watching re-runs as a kid growing up in the 80’s.


4 posted on 06/15/2016 8:14:06 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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She made money doing that? I liked Judy.


5 posted on 06/15/2016 8:17:04 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: be-baw

She was also Princess” in Battle of the Planets.

RIP Janet.


6 posted on 06/15/2016 8:17:08 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: bigbob

Finally, news from the nyt worth reading. They should stick to this kind of reporting, as apparently anything else is above their collective pay grade.

RIP Janet Waldo. Some of my favorite childhood memories. sitting in front of the tv on Saturday morning, Jetsons coming on, bowl of cereal in my lap. 1970s era Spider bike in carport waiting to be ridden all day.....


7 posted on 06/15/2016 8:20:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: bigbob

Cool show.
Always had a crush on Judy and Daphne...
RIP


8 posted on 06/15/2016 8:21:52 AM PDT by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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>>Still one of the coolest shows on TV! And I’m waiting for George’s space-car that folds up into a briefcase...<<

I would settle for just the flying car!

Prayers for her family — we are losing so many people behind the memories of our childhood :(


9 posted on 06/15/2016 8:27:03 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: bigbob

I was just talking to a friend the other day, and mentioning that Janet Waldo was still alive. He’d picked up a copy of the b-western “Silver Stallion” (1941), of which she happened to be leading lady in, and we were discussing her career in radio.


10 posted on 06/15/2016 8:42:03 AM PDT by greene66
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To: bigbob
Rose got the FAX


11 posted on 06/15/2016 8:58:41 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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Rose=Rosie


12 posted on 06/15/2016 8:59:02 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: relictele
...the original Jetsons lasted only one season of 24 episodes..

And I was there for the original showing of each and every one of those episodes yet had no idea that's all that were made. Thanks for that little bit of trivia!

13 posted on 06/15/2016 9:08:33 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: greene66

Ms. Waldo may be gone, but another legendary voice, June Foray, is still with us, and doing well at the age of 98.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Foray

She received her first Emmy nomination at the age of 94 and won, making her the oldest recipient of that award in TV history. Long overdue, especially when you look at her body of work.

Chuck Jones, one of the greatest animation directors, once said that Mel Blanc was the “male” June Foray. High praise, indeed.


14 posted on 06/15/2016 9:13:43 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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I was thinking Waldo might have been the very last star of an old-time radio series to have still been around. Alan Young died about a month ago, and he headlined his own series in the mid-1940s.

Perhaps Louise Erickson is still alive. She might indeed be the only one left who was actually the primary ‘star’ of a series. Tommy Cook is still around, but he was more of a supporting ‘kid’ actor, in radio series like “Life of Riley,” “Blondie,” and “Red Ryder.”


15 posted on 06/15/2016 9:17:18 AM PDT by greene66
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To: bigbob

She was also Penelope Pitstop.


16 posted on 06/15/2016 9:30:34 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
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To: bigbob

two companies in Palo Alto working on that. One headed by google. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/welcome-to-larry-page-s-secret-flying-car-factories

at least one company in england also working on that. none of them fold up into a briefcase but they are designed to get into the carport. http://www.autoworldnews.com/articles/16361/20160405/britains-dyson-tech-introduces-a-new-electric-flying-car.htm


17 posted on 06/15/2016 2:23:47 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: bigbob; be-baw; relictele; mrmeyer; DIRTYSECRET; wally_bert; V_TWIN; mowowie; freedumb2003; ...

I watched the jetsons when I was a kid in 1964.

What I tell people these days is that technologically the USA is swinging back around to 1964. At that time it was thought that energy too cheap to meter and commercial space flight were only a decade or two away because NASA was moving ahead so quickly to put a man on the moon and the price of electricity by nuclear power was dropping like a stone.

Neither happened. Vietnam and OPEC forced budget cuts by the federal government and 3 mile Island forced multiple redundancies in nuclear power plants causing nuclear plant prices to go up. The 70’s changed things in a big way from the 60’s.

But technologically, at least, the USA is swinging back around to 1964. What with Musk planning to put a man on the mars in 9 years and multiple energy sources promising energy at a fraction of today’s prices sometime in the next decade or two. Plus multiple industries talking about a fourth industrial revolution in the next 10 years as if the last ten were not impressive enough.


18 posted on 06/15/2016 2:38:36 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: bigbob

RIP.


19 posted on 06/15/2016 3:31:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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