Evidently, the cartoon producers liked her. When they got their own studio, they signed her to be the voice of Cindy Bear.
Now, actress Julie Bennett has been claimed by complications of Covid-19. She died on March 31st at age 88.
Bennett acted in cartoons through the 1980s and then pretty much disappeared. Various sources have revealed what happened. She changed her name (I do not know what her birth name was) to Marianne Daniels and became a personal manager.
Cindy’s voice owed something to Shirley Mitchell’s Leila Ransome on The Great Gildersleeve; I think both characters used the phrase “I do declare!” (Mitchell admitted she borrowed her Southern belle accent from Una Merkel).
Bennett worked for other cartoon studios as well. She provided a few voices for Warner Bros. and filled in for June Foray at the Jay Ward studio on the “Fractured Fairy Tale” cartoons. She turned up at UPA as well.
I hate to do a tally, but it appears Elliot Field is the only voice actor left from the pre-Flintstones days (1960); Jimmy Weldon came on board as Yakky Doodle in cartoons that aired starting in 1961.
You can read a few old posts about Miss Bennett by clicking here.
My thanks to reader Luu Hoang for alerting me to the media reports about this, and my sincere sympathies go to her friends.