Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)

Blanc, known as "The Man of 1000 Voices", was born in San Francisco,
California, and later moved to Portland, Oregon where he attended
Lincoln High School. He began his radio career at age 19 on the KGW
program The Hoot Owls in 1927. This is where his ability to produce
voices for a large number of characters was first noticed. Blanc also
worked for KEX radio in Portland with his own show in 1933.  

Mel Blanc later moved to Los Angeles and joined Warner-Bros- owned
KFWB radio in Hollywood where he soon became the voices of various
Warner-Bros cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and
Porky Pig, just to name a few.

The Walt Disney short cartoon was shown at Disneyland in the
Fantasyland Theater as part of the 3D Jamboree. This film was
the first in a proposed series of shorts teaching the principles of 
music, called Adventures in Music. Only one other film in the series 
was made, Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom.

Professor Owl

Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released by United Artists,
produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. It is based on
the fairy tale of the same name, the Silly Symphony won the 1934
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In 1994, it was voted
#11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by those in the animation
field. In 2007, Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the
United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress
as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) –  Donald Levine, the Hasbro executive credited as the
father of G.I. Joe for developing the world’s first action figure, has died.

He died of cancer early Thursday at Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island. His
wife Nan said they were just about to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.

Levine shepherded the toy through design and development as Hasbro’s head
of research and development.

 
Former child star Lauren Ann Chapin rose to fame for playing Kathy “Kitten”
Anderson on the long-running CBS television series Father Knows Best
(1954-1960). She had her first acting role on a 1952 episode of Lux Video
Theatre when she was seven. Chapin wrote the book “Father Does Know
Best-The Lauren Chapin Story” in 1988.