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Janet Marie Waldo was an American actress, prolific in voice over roles with a career encompassing radio, television, animation, and live-action films, best known for voicing Judy Jetson in The Jetsons, Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races, Nancy in Shazzan, and Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats.

Early life[]

Waldo was born in Yakima, Wash­ing­ton on Feb­ru­ary 4, 1919 (ac­cord­ing to her fam­ily gravestone) al­though most sources, in­clud­ing the 1930 and 1940 cen­sus records, in­di­cate 1920.

Her mother, Jane Althea Blod­gett, was a singer trained at the Boston Con­ser­va­tory of Music, and her fa­ther, Ben­jamin Franklin Waldo, was, ac­cord­ing to Waldo fam­ily lore, a dis­tant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emer­son. She had three older sib­lings, one of whom, Elis­a­beth Waldo, is an au­thor­ity on pre-Columbian music and an award-win­ning com­poser-vi­o­lin­ist who ap­peared in the film Song of Mex­ico (1945).

Janet Waldo at­tended the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, where her per­for­mance in a stu­dent the­atri­cal gar­nered her an award and brought her to the at­ten­tion of Bing Crosby. A Para­mount Pic­tures tal­ent scout, who was with Crosby at the time, signed Waldo for a screen test, which led to a con­tract with the studio.

Roles[]

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