Sterling Holloway

Today’s trivia: Sterling Holloway, voice actor.

Yes, you know him. He’s the original voice of Winnie the Pooh.
He was the narrator on tons of Disney cartoons, like say Mickey and the Beanstalk.

Here’s an article about him with a picture. An intersting snippet:

Ironically, for the actor whose voice was to be his fortune, it was the advent of sound that drove him, however temporarily, from Hollywood. “I came to Hollywood at a bad time. The movies were in a state of turmoil,” he later recalled. “Sound was coming in and silents were going out. I made a silent two-reel comedy called The Fighting Kangaroo. Then I did a silent feature, Casey at the Bat, with Wallace Beery for Paramount, and all of a sudden I was a has-been. Nobody thought I was suitable for talkies. I didn’t feel so bad when I heard about John Gilbert. So I returned to New York.”

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