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Ilene Woods, voice of 'Cinderella,' dies
LOS ANGELES, (UPI) -- Ilene Woods, whose voice gave life to the 1950 Disney classic, "Cinderella," died in Los Angeles at age 81.
Woods died Thursday of Alzheimer's-related complications at a nursing home in Canoga Park, her husband, longtime "Tonight Show" drummer Ed Shaughnessy, told the Los Angeles Times.
"I loved doing the character," Woods, who beat out more than 300 other singers who auditioned for the part, told the Houston Chronicle in 2005. "When my dad saw the movie, he said he saw me in the facial expressions, hand movements and mannerisms. (Animator) Marc Davis would watch me record and picked up on things."
Woods spent the next two years making recordings at the Disney studio. "Walt would sit down at the table with us at meals, and we discussed the movie together. It was just magical. There was a happiness and joy," Woods said.
"One of the things about her performance is the warmth she gave the character," animation critic Charles Solomon told the Times. "As soon as she began to speak, her voice meshed with Marc Davis' animation to create a heroine you liked instantly."
LOS ANGELES, (UPI) -- Ilene Woods, whose voice gave life to the 1950 Disney classic, "Cinderella," died in Los Angeles at age 81.
Woods died Thursday of Alzheimer's-related complications at a nursing home in Canoga Park, her husband, longtime "Tonight Show" drummer Ed Shaughnessy, told the Los Angeles Times.
"I loved doing the character," Woods, who beat out more than 300 other singers who auditioned for the part, told the Houston Chronicle in 2005. "When my dad saw the movie, he said he saw me in the facial expressions, hand movements and mannerisms. (Animator) Marc Davis would watch me record and picked up on things."
Woods spent the next two years making recordings at the Disney studio. "Walt would sit down at the table with us at meals, and we discussed the movie together. It was just magical. There was a happiness and joy," Woods said.
"One of the things about her performance is the warmth she gave the character," animation critic Charles Solomon told the Times. "As soon as she began to speak, her voice meshed with Marc Davis' animation to create a heroine you liked instantly."
