Born Lillian Ann Herdan in Albany, New York, she grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she studied drama at the University of Tulsa and honed her ear for accents by mimicking Brooklyn customers while working in a millinery shop. After a stint in a local vaudeville adaptation of Abie’s Irish Rose and a four-year national tour with Major Edward Bowes’s all-girl unit, she entered network radio in Hollywo… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Rear Window 1954 Anchors Aweigh 1945 Artists and Models 1955 The Big Bad Wolf 1934 ★ 7.3 Red Hot Riding Hood 1943
Red / Grandma / Short Cigarette Girl (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.3 Mouse Trouble 1944
Toy Mouse (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.6 Puttin' on the Dog 1944
Spike's Screams (archive voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.3 Fraidy Cat 1942
Operator (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.2 Springtime for Thomas 1946
Toodles Galore (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.1 Peace on Earth 1939
Baby Squirrel (uncredited) ★ 7.1 The Mouse Comes to Dinner 1945
Toots (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.1 Who Killed Who? 1943
Cuckoo Bird / Maid (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7 King-Size Canary 1947
Canary (voice) ★ 7 Hatch Up Your Troubles 1949
Baby Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.9 Road to Morocco 1942
Mabel (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7 Swing Shift Cinderella 1945
Little Red Riding Hood / Cinderella / Fairy Godmother (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.1 The Case of the Stuttering Pig 1937
Petunia Pig (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.8 Anchors Aweigh 1945
Jerry Mouse (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.9 Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid 1942
Mama Buzzard (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.1 Swooner Crooner 1944
Chickens (voice) (uncredited) ★ 7.1 An Itch in Time 1943
A. Flea (singing voice) ★ 6.9 Woody Woodpecker 1941
Bird (voice) ★ 7 The Bashful Buzzard 1945
Mamma Buzzard ★ 6.8 Baby Puss 1943
Jerry (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.8 The Zoot Cat 1944
Jerry / Toots (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.8 Pigs in a Polka 1943
First Little Pig (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.8 Baby Bottleneck 1946
Mama Gorilla (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.8 Lonesome Lenny 1946
Rich Lady (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.7 The Autograph Hound 1939
(voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.7 The Daffy Doc 1938
Switchboard Operator (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.7 Broken Toys 1935
Girl Doll (voice) ★ 6.5 One Ham's Family 1943
Mother Pig (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.6 Book Revue 1946
Henry the VIII's mother - Swooning Girls (voice) ★ 6.5 Hollywood Steps Out 1941
Greta Garbo / Coat Check Girl / Henry Fonda's Mother / Dorothy Lamour (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.3 The Hick Chick 1946
Daisy (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.4 Horton Hatches the Egg 1942
Maysie / Baby (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.6 Artists and Models 1955
Mrs. Stilton (uncredited) ★ 6.4 The Egg and Jerry 1956
Baby Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.2 Big Heel-Watha 1944
Minnie Hot-Cha (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.2 The Naked Street 1955
Millie Swadke ★ 6.1 Pantry Panic 1941
Birds (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.4 Carrie 1952
Mrs. Oransky ★ 6.3 Daffy Duck in Hollywood 1938
Katherine Hepburn Chick / Fat Lady (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.5 The Big Bad Wolf 1934
Little Red Riding Hood / Grandma (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6 Bacall to Arms 1946
Laurie Be-Cool / Mother in Law (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6 Smitten Kitten 1952
Toots (archive voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.1 Neapolitan Mouse 1954
Jerry (voice) (uncredited) ★ 5.6 She Was an Acrobat's Daughter 1937
Bette Savis / Little Oscar / Barking Woman / Duckling (voice) (uncredited) ★ 5.6 Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 1938
Katharine Hepburn / Martha Raye / Greta Garbo / Freddie Bartholomew (voice) (uncredited) ★ 4.8 Backlash 1947
Dorothy, Maid Start from another title 
