A Special 4 Star Whammy…Carson And Three Top Cartoon Voices
A Special 4 Star Whammy…Carson And Three Top Cartoon Voices
First off, the lead segment of this 1955 kinescope of ‘The Johnny Carson Show’ on CBS is some of the best quality I’ve ever seen. The last part with Johnny as a reporter is more typical of kine quality, or lack there off.
Johnny’s wife is played by the great June Foray who as we all know by now was most famous for her roles as Rocky and Natasha on ‘The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle’.
In the clip’s Bonus Footage section, we get to see Sara Berner as the older lady in the French sketch. Among other things, she was the voice of Andy Panda, Chilly Willie and Jerry The Mouse who was Fred Astaire’s animated dancing partner in ‘Anchors Aweigh’. Like June Foray, she did hundreds of other voices in MGM and Warner Brothers cartoons.
John Stephenson plays a news man here, and is probably best known as Fred Flintstone’s boss…Mr. Slate. He also did a lot of voices on ‘Scooby Doo’ and ‘Johnny Quest’. Stevenson also shared the narration duties on ‘Dragnet’ with George Fenneman. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDd1TU-Paa0
June Foray making a rare on-screen appearance on the Johnny Carson show on CBS some time around September 1955 and sounding very much like Rocky the Flying S…
Produced in Studio 33 at CBS Television City in Hollywood.
June Foray was a regular with Stan Freberg for many years. Here she is in a small bit on “St. George And The Dragonet.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUdFLyNCeI4
Now if only Mel Blanc would have showed up, that would have been the best episode of that show ever.