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Ilene Megan Woods is a Actor American born on 5 may 1929 at Portsmouth (USA)

Ilene Megan Woods

Ilene Megan Woods
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Birth name Jacqueline Ruth Woods
Nationality USA
Birth 5 may 1929 at Portsmouth (USA)
Death 1 july 2010 (at 81 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Jacqueline Ruth "Ilene" Woods (May 5, 1929 – July 1, 2010) was an American voice actress and singer. Woods was the voice of the title character of the Walt Disney animated classic Cinderella, for which she was named a Disney Legend in 2003.

Biography

La mère d'Ilene travaillait dans le monde du cinéma en coulisse et emmenait sa fille avec elle. À l'âge de deux ans, Ilene est prise pour des scènes avec des jeunes enfants marquant le début de sa carrière.

Durant l'été 1944, à 14 ans, elle décroche sa propre émission de radio baptisé brièvement The Ilene Woods Show sur une station du réseau NBC Blue qui deviendra ABC Radio. Cette émission musicale de 15 minutes était proposée trois jours par semaine et a attiré de nombreux compositeurs venus présenter leurs œuvres. C'est ainsi qu'Ilene fait la connaissance de Mack David et Jerry Livingston. Peu de temps après, elle déménage en Californie sentant sa chance arriver.

À la suite du décès en 1942 du compositeur attitré des studios Disney, David et Livingston ont été engagés comme paroliers sur le projet de long métrage d'animation Cendrillon. En 1946, âgée de 17 ans, elle épouse le compositeur George Bruns, mariage dont elle aura trois enfants.

Un jour de 1948, David et Livingston demandent à Ilene de venir les aider sur un projet de film et d'enregistrer sa voix sur quelques chansons. Les enregistrements sont présentés à Walt Disney qui demande deux jours plus tard à Ilene de devenir la voix anglaise de Cendrillon pour le film. Bien que ne sachant pas qu'elle avait été auditionnée et sélectionnée parmi près de 400 postulantes, elle accepte le rôle avec plaisir. Elle ne rencontre Walt Disney qu'après la sortie du film. En 1953, Burns obtient lui aussi un travail chez Disney.

Après la sortie du film, elle poursuit une carrière de chanteuse et d'actrice pour la télévision.

En 1985, Ilene se lance dans la peinture, réalisant beaucoup de portraits d'enfants.

En 2002, puis 2007, pour les suites de Cendrillon elle est remplacée par Jennifer Hale.

En 2003, elle reçoit la récompense Disney Legends pour sa participation à Cendrillon.


Best films

Cinderella (1950)
(Actress)

Usually with

Mack David
Mack David
(2 films)
Ted Sears
Ted Sears
(2 films)
Don Barclay
Don Barclay
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ilene Megan Woods (3 films)

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Actress

Mommie Dearest, 2h9
Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about television, Films about child abuse
Actors Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva
Roles Elderly Audience Member (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.2988653.2988653.2988653.2988653.298865
Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) is a driven actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries to control the lives of those around her as tightly as she controls herself. To prepare for a work day at MGM Studios, she rises at 4:00 a.m. and engages in a strict morning ritual: scrubbing her face and arms with soap and boiling hot water, then plunging her face into a bowl of rubbing alcohol and ice to close the pores. When Helga (Alice Nunn), a new maid, thinks she has Joan's living room in spotless condition, Joan finds one minor detail that she overlooked and loses her temper.
Alice in Wonderland, 1h15
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Musical films, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna, Verna Felton
Roles Additional Singing Flowers (voice)
Rating72% 3.6479653.6479653.6479653.6479653.647965
On a golden spring day at the bank of a tranquil river, a young 12-year-old girl named Alice grows bored listening to her older 19-year-old sister read aloud from a history book of William I of England. When her sister chastises Alice's daydreaming, Alice tells her kitten Dinah that she can live in a nonsensical magical land called Wonderland. While daydreaming, Alice spots a waistcoat-wearing White Rabbit passing by, exclaiming that he is "late for an important date". Alice gives chase and follows him into a rabbit hole, and falls into a large furnished hole. Her dress catches her fall like a parachute and she floats gently down. She sees the White Rabbit disappear into a tiny door and tries to follow, but the door's talking knob advises her to alter her size using a mysterious bottle marked "Drink Me." The contents shrink her to a fraction of her normal size, but the door is locked and the key is out of reach. She then takes a bite of a cookie that says “Eat Me” and grows large enough to fill the entire room. She begins to weep large tears that flood the room. The doorknob then tells Alice to drink from the bottle again, which causes her to shrink once more. Alice falls into the bottle and passes through the door's keyhole and into Wonderland. She meets several strange characters including the Dodo and Tweedledee and Tweedledum who recount the tale of "The Walrus and the Carpenter".
Cinderella
Cinderella (1950)
, 1h14
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about the labor movement, Les fées, Musical films, Political films, Children's films, Films about marriage, Films about royalty
Actors Ilene Megan Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, Jimmy MacDonald, Luis van Rooten
Roles Cinderella (voice)
Rating72% 3.645353.645353.645353.645353.64535
Cinderella is the beloved child of a widowed aristocrat. Anxious for his daughter to have a mother's love, he remarries to Lady Tremaine, with two daughters: Drizella and Anastasia. After her father dies unexpectedly, Lady Tremaine is revealed to be a cruel and selfish woman, and Cinderella is abused and mistreated by her stepfamily, who take over the estate and ultimately reduce her to being a scullery maid in her own home. Despite this, Cinderella grows into a kind and gentle young woman, befriending the animals in the barn and the mice and birds who live around the chateau.