Janet Waldo

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Janet Waldo (born February 4, 1918 (some sources say 1920) 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 and its spinoff series The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, a teenage babysitter named Jeannie from Tom and Jerry in the two episodes, Busy Buddies and Tot Watchers, and many other animated female characters. She also voice the role of Morticia Addams in the short-lived 1973 cartoon series adaptation of The Addams Family.

Waldo played ingenue roles in a handful of 1940's films, often in small, unbilled roles although she was the leading lady in three B westerns, two of them starring Tim Holt. During this period was most active in radio, starring on the popular series Meet Corliss Archer as the title melodramatic teenager (although losing the role in the film adaptation of the series, A Kiss for Corliss, to Shirley Temple.

Waldo made a rare television acting appearance when she appeared on an episode of I Love Lucy with Richard Crenna, as a young girl smitten with Ricky Ricardo. She later was the female lead opposite Anthony Franciosa in the short-lived sitcom "Valentine's Day" in 1964.

Waldo, a descedent of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was married to playwright Robert Edwin Lee from 1948 until his death in 1994. They have two children.

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She is the last surviving cast member of The Jetsons.