Janet Waldo (born February 4 1918 in Grandview, Washington) is a well-known actress and voice artist. She is most notable for providing the voice of teenager Judy Jetson in all versions of the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon The Jetsons, except the movie version where the role went to Tiffany, and has also been the voice of Josie in Josie and the Pussycats, Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races, a teenage babysitter named Jeannie from Tom and Jerry in the two episodes, Busy Buddies and Tot Watchers, and many other animated female characters.

Waldo played ingenue roles in a handful of 1940s films but during this period was most active in radio, starring on the series Corliss Archer as a melodramatic teenager.

Appeared in person on an episode of I Love Lucy with Richard Crenna, as a young girl smitten with Ricky Ricardo.

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American Teens Hog Spotlight; 'Boy A' Shies Away
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:45:00 -0400
Amid summer's blockbusters, two films offer a change of pace: American Teen, a documentary that plays like fiction, and Boy A, fiction that feels true to life.
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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:44:00 -0400
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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:21:00 -0400
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She Says It’s True, Her Memoir of Forging
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:36:37 -0000
Lee Israel forged more than 400 letters from Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and other literary celebrities, a criminal career she recounts in her book, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:00:39 -0000
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Why I Came West
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
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To This Day
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
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The Unforgotten
James Wood Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
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Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0500
This animated feature about chimp astronauts more than pales in comparison to WALL-E.

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