Rhoda Williams

Rhoda Elaine Williams was an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Drizella Tremaine in the 1951 Walt Disney film Cinderella and she was the voice of Mother, and the Teenage Daughter, from 1964-1973 in The Carousel of Progress.

Personal life
Williams was born in Denver, Colorado. She began her acting career at age five, when she and her family moved to Hollywood from Galveston, Texas. She was the daughter of Edgar P. Williams, Superintendent of the Grain Elevators from 1900–1929 and Mrs. Jessie Williams, who was active in the First Methodist Church in Galveston. She had learned to read at age three, and performing on radio came naturally to her. She soon had her own local weekly show on KMPC's, "We Who Are Young."

Career
Her move to national radio came when she was nine years old and was cast as a small boy on NBC's "I Want a Divorce!" During the next several years she appeared in almost every major show emanating from Hollywood, including "Dr. Christian", "One Man's Family", "Arch Oboler Presents" and "Life of Riley". During her teen years, she was also featured or co-starred on many productions of "Lux Radio Theatre" with such stars as Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, Van Johnson, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Rosalind Russell, Clifton Webb, Loretta Young and many others. In 1949, she began a five-year stint as Robert Young's oldest daughter, Betty, on NBC Radio's "Father Knows Best."

During this period, she also appeared in Walt Disney's Cinderella, she was the voice and model for the stepsister, Drizella. She attended Hollywood High School and earned a B.A. degree from UCLA when she was 18.

With the advent of television, Williams moved into the new medium on such early live shows as Lights, Camera, Action! and Slice of Life and, with the advent of film TV, Date With Judy, Chrysler Theatre, Laredo, The Big Valley, Run for Your Life, Dragnet, Ironside, Project UFO, Marcus Welby, M.D., Policewoman, and Barnaby Jones. She appeared on Superior Court and General Hospital and provided alien voices for Star Trek IV and Star Trek V.

She also specialized in voices and dialects and was the "voice" for Brigitte Bardot in the American version of The Night Heaven Fell. She returned to Walt Disney Animation Studios as the voice and model for the AudioAnimatronic mother and teen-age daughter at the General Electric '"Carousel of Progress at Disneyland.

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