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Thelma Boardman (born Thelma Joyce Hubbard, October 31, 1909 – April 21, 1978) was an American voice actress and writer best known for her work with the Walt Disney Studios, particularly as the voice actress for Minnie Mouse from 1937 to 1938 and from 1941 to 1942.
Thelma Boardman was born on 31 October 1909 in Panama Canal Zone, Panama. She was an actress and writer, known for Gunsmoke (1955), Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956) and Mickey's Birthday Party (1953). She was married to True Boardman and Russell Erwin Diehl.
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- Panama Canal Zone, Panama
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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Thelma Boardman was an American voice actress and writer, best known for providing the voice of Minnie Mouse from 1937 to 1942.
Thelma Joyce Hubbard was born in the Panama Canal Zone on October 31, 1909, to Edward Lucius and Rebecca Cecelia (née Delevante) Hubbard. She married Russell Erwin Diehl on July 7, 1929, before marrying True Boardman, with whom she had two children.
For Disney, she began voicing Minnie Mouse as part of the radio show The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air in 1937 and made her film debut in 1938 as Angel Donald in Donald's Better Self. She also provided the voice of Snow White in the Spanish dub of 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Later, Boardman turned to writing and wrote for television programs, such as Gunsmoke and Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
She died on April 21, 1978, in Los Angeles, California.
1.Ancestry.com. California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850–1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
2.Year: 1940; Census Place: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Roll: m-t0627-00376; Page: 63A; Enumeration District: 60-55B
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Mickey's Birthday Party: Directed by Hamilton Luske, Riley Thomson. With Thelma Boardman, Walt Disney, Florence Gill, George Johnson. The gang gives Mickey a surprise party that turns into a jam session with everyone playing instruments while Goofy has problems baking a cake.
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Born Thelma Hubbard on October 31, 1909 in Panama City, she died on April 21, 1978 in Los Angeles. In July 1927, she appeared at the Pasadena Community Theater in “Easy Virtue”. In September 1927, she appeared at the Lurie Theater in San Francisco in the play “Twinkle Twinkle”.
Actress and writer, known for Bambi (1942), Donald's Decision (1942) and Gunsmoke (1955). She was married to True Boardman.
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