Bernice Hansen

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Bernice Hansen (born 1925) was a voice artist who did a number of female character voices for Warner Bros. cartoons in the 1930s and early-1940s. She also did male characters that required squeaky voices.

Hansen is often credited with voicing the mouse called Sniffles, although some researchers dispute that credit ^[1]. In fact, IMDb considers Gay Seabrook to be the voice of Sniffles ^[2], as does Turner Classic Movies, which most often airs the Sniffles cartoons. [2]

Hansen, like all the Warner voice artists (except Mel Blanc) received no on-screen credits in the cartoons, and with several of the 1930s female voices (Hansen, Seabrook and Sara Berner ^[3]) apparently having a similar sound, research on the matter has proven challenging.