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BigmanPigman

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Mon Aug 1, 2022, 11:06 PM Aug 2022

Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades, Emmy-winner has died at 95.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/pat-carroll-emmy-winner-voice-ursula-dies-95-rcna40881

Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades has died at 95.

"Pat Carroll, Emmy winner and voice of Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid,' dies at 95
Her career stretched from the 1950s with Sid Caesar to the 1960s with Red Skelton, Carol Burnett and "Cinderella," and beyond."

"She also played one of the wicked stepsisters in the 1965 television production of “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” with Lesley Ann Warren. And she won a Grammy in 1980 for the recording of her one woman show “Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein.”

"A new generation would come to know and love her voice thanks to Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” which came out in 1989. Carroll would often say that Ursula was one of her favorite roles. She said she saw her as an “Ex-Shakespearean actress who now sold cars.”



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Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades, Emmy-winner has died at 95. (Original Post) BigmanPigman Aug 2022 OP
Requiescat in pace, good and brave soul. niyad Aug 2022 #1
she was a constant presence on TV during my youth... bahboo Aug 2022 #2
RIP MustLoveBeagles Aug 2022 #3
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