![]() ![]() A budding young journalist, Louisa was working on an article about Lucas Gray, an animator living in Santa Monica, who was heavily influenced by the work of early pioneering animators, including Max Fleischer and Fleischer Studios. In the Small World Department, Fleischer Studios’ historian Ginny Mahoney was recently contacted by high school sophomore Louisa Goldman. You can check out more of Ginny Mahoney's remembrances on her blog about her father, animator Seymour Kneitel here. ![]() You can read the first installment of Max and Me here.Mae’s lovely and very generous gesture made for a very special day in the Mahoney household, and wonderfully exemplifies the spirit of this vibrant and talented artist.įor more, check out Finding Her Voice in our virtual museum, featuring Mae Questel and the five other women who voiced Betty in the 1930s. “Wait,” Casper finally said, “let me get Betty Boop!” After talking to Betty, Jeni when on to have conversations with Popeye, Olive Oyl and about a half dozen other characters. Mae, as Casper, then proceeded to have an entire conversation with Jeni. “Hi Jeni…this is Casper,” Mae intoned in Casper’s iconic friendly voice. “Put Jeni on the phone,” Mae said when she heard Jeni was a fan. and at home with three young kids, including my eldest, Jeni, who was six at the time and absolutely loved Casper the Ghost. I was a young mother at the time, living in Washington, D.C. One of my favorite memories of Mae is actually a phone call she made to me while visiting my mother, Ruth, in New York sometime around 1970. ![]()
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