Wanda Tettoni

Italian actress and voice actress

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Wanda Tettoni
Tettoni in 1953
Born	(1910年03月08日)8 March 1910 Siena, Kingdom of Italy
Died	7 March 1998(1998年03月07日) (aged 87) Rome, Italy
Occupations	Actress voice actress
Years active	1926–1998

Wanda Tettoni (8 March 1910 – 7 March 1998) was an Italian actress and voice actress.^[1]

Biography

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Tettoni was born in Siena in Tuscany and she made her big theatre debut in Milan when she was 16 years old. She even pursued an acting career in the radio industry during the 1940s, but she was more famous as a voice actress. She was the official Italian voice of Katharine Hepburn and Agnes Moorehead. Other actresses she dubbed included Jessica Tandy, Mary Wickes, Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers. Tettoni's Italian dubbed character roles included Aunt Clara (portrayed by Marion Lorne) in Bewitched and the Elder Rose (portrayed by Gloria Stuart) in the 1997 film Titanic . This was one of her final dubbing roles before her death in 1998.

In her animated roles, Tettoni voiced Madame Adelaide Bonfamille in the Italian version of The Aristocats . Her other Disney dubbing roles included Queenie in One Hundred and One Dalmatians , Giddy in Dumbo and the Snooty Flower in Alice in Wonderland . She also dubbed Pearl Slaghoople in The Flintstones .