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Because of a lack of on-screen voice credits on cartoons throughout the 1930s, identifying many actors has been a challenge to historians, resulting in incorrect guesses, especially with many female voices portraying young animals that sound very similar. She has, for example, been incorrectly
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Her animation career ended in the early 1940s. By this point, the small, "cutesy" style characters that had been popular in the 1930s (in which Hansen had specialized) were falling out of fashion;
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in 1877. Her mother was from Iowa. Edward Hansell worked as a jeweller and then an optician during the 1920s, and as an elevator operator during the
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Costello, E.O., "Sniffles" entry at The Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion. Accessed 2008-05-13
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on July 11, 1897 to Edward and T. Belle (Carey) Hansell. Her father was an
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Hansell died in Los Angeles on April 16, 1981. She was 83 years old.
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on the Warner Bros. lot. She managed to find work in cartoons at the
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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present)
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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
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Los Angeles, California
voice actress
cartoon
studios
Warner Bros. Cartoons
I Haven't Got a Hat
Sniffles
Los Angeles, California
Englishman
United States
Great Depression
stenographer
dressmaker
Walt Disney Studios
Mickey Mouse
Leon Schlesinger Productions
Walter Lantz Productions
Sara Berner
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929–1939)
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–1959)
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1960–1969)
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1970–present)
Costello, E.O., "Sniffles" entry at The Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion. Accessed 2008-05-13
Archived
Wayback Machine
Bernice Hansen
IMDb
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