Melissa Wooten

Melvin Jerome Blank, son of Frederick and Eva Blank, was born in San Francisco, California but later moved to Portland, Oregon during high school. When he was 16 he changed the spelling of his surname to Blanc to overcome harsh words of a teacher. The teacher told him that he would amount to nothing, ultimately living up to be a blank. Soon thereafter, he dropped out of high school and split time between leading an orchestra and performing shtick in Vaudeville shows around Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.

Blanc began his career on the radio at age 19 in 1927. He moved to Los Angeles in 1932 and met his wife Estelle Rosenbaum. With her encouragement, the two moved back to LA where he continued in radio. In 1937, Mel joined Leon Schlesinger Productions who created cartoons for Warner Bros. He replaced Joe Dougherty, as the voice of Porky Pig due to production cost. Blanc was able to harness the stutter whereas Dougherty's real stutter made for long studio hours. Blanc went on to be the permanent voice of Porky Pig until his death in 1989.


Some of the characters he voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, the Tasmanian Devil, Barney Ruble, Mr. Spacely and Papa Smurf.


Mel Blanc has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.

A photo of Florence Henderson, best known as Carol Brady, the mom of the Brady Bunch, a television show that was on tv from 1969 - 1974. Although the original show only ran 5 years, there were specials and the reruns are still running over 40 years later.

She began her career as a singer at age 12, singing in local grocery stores in Indiana. After college, she began touring in "Oklahoma" and "South Pacific" and then went on to Broadway, starring in such shows as "Wish You Were Here" and "Fanny".

After The Brady Bunch, her long career included commercials, cooking shows, her own talk show, and even Dancing With The Stars.

The mother of four children, she had 10 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren when she died on Thanksgiving - November 24 2016.