A unfortunate end for a fortunate woman

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Pat Carol has died       she was 95

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A great woman!
Rest in Peace.


Here article from Deadline:

Pat Carroll Dies: Veteran Actress Of Stage, TV, Film And Voice Of Ursula In ‘The Little Mermaid’ Was 95
By Bruce Haring

July 31, 2022 1:36pm

Comedian and actress Pat Carroll, a television pioneer and an Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, died at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 30 while recovering from pnuemonia.

A frequent film actress and television guest star and series regular starting in the late 1940s, her work was seen on the Jimmy Durante Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Laverne & Shirley, ER and many other programs. She voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid and in several cartoon series.

Patricia Ann Carroll was born May 5, 1927 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was five years old, and she soon began acting in local productions. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School, and then attended Catholic University of America after enlisting in the US Army.

Carroll’s acting career started in 1947 with the film Hometown Girl. In 1956, Carroll won an Emmy Award for her work on Sid Caesar’s House, and was a regular on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy from 1961 to 1964.

She also appeared on many variety shows of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including shows headlined by Steve Allen, Red Buttons, Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Carol Burnett. In 1965 she costarred as “Prunella,” one of the wicked stepsisters in the 1965 production of the musical version of Cinderella.

Carroll also won several theater awards for her one-woman show on Gertrude Stein, and the recorded version won a 1980 Grammy for Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama.

In early 1976, Carroll was cast as Lily, the mother of Shirley Feeney in the episode “Mother Knows Worst” on the hit ABC sitcom Laverne & Shirley. She also was in the CBS sitcom Busting Loose, The Ted Knight Show, and the syndicated She’s The Sheriff.

In 1989, Carroll portrayed the sea witch Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, singing “Poor Unfortunate Souls.” She called the role one of her favorites, and reprised it in several other productions in various media.

Survivors include daughters Kerry Karsian, Tara Karsian and granddaughter Evan Karsian-McCormick. No memorial plans have been revealed.

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Source: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/pat-carroll-voice-of-the-little-mermaids-ursula-dies-at-95

IN MEMORIAM
Pat Carroll, Voice of The Little Mermaid’s Ursula, Dies at 95
The Emmy- and Grammy-winning actress, who also voiced characters on Garfield and Scooby-Doo, died of pneumonia at her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
BY SAVANNAH WALSH

AUGUST 1, 2022

Pat Carroll, the voice behind The Little Mermaid’s spellbinding sea witch, Ursula, has died at her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her daughter Kerry Karsian confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Carroll passed away Saturday at the age of 95.

Carroll is best known for her voiceover work, which began with 1966’s animated TV series The Super 6. In the 1980s, her shapeshifting vocals could be heard in everything from Scooby-Doo to Superman. She also voiced Granny in the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro and Grandma in multiple Garfield specials. But Carroll would forever become synonymous with Ursula and her rendition of “Poor Unfortunate Souls,” when cast in 1989’s Disney adaptation of The Little Mermaid.

“It was a lifelong ambition of mine to do a Disney film,” she told author Allan Neuwirth in 2003’s Makin’ Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows and Movies. “So, I was theirs, hook, line, and sinker.” Carroll would reprise the role for several video games and theme park rides, as well as the 1993 Little Mermaid CBS series. She also voiced Ursula’s similarly sinister sister Morgana for 2000’s sequel, The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea.

Carroll, born on May 5, 1927, in Shreveport, Louisiana, relocated with her family to Los Angeles when she was 5. She made her big-screen debut in 1948’s Hometown Girl before becoming a comedic mainstay on variety shows and sitcoms including The Mickey Rooney Show, The Danny Thomas Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Caesar’s Hour, for which she won an Emmy in 1957. Throughout her seven-decade career, she also played a wicked stepsister in 1965’s TV version of Cinderella and Shirley’s mom on Happy Days spinoffs Laverne & Shirley.

Carroll also treaded the boards of Broadway, earning a Tony nomination for her 1955 debut in Catch a Star!, written by Danny and Neil Simon. Decades later, she earned a Drama Desk Award and Grammy for her off-Broadway one-woman show, Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein, in which Carroll played the titular author.

At the time of Gertrude Stein, Carroll told The Washington Post that her children noted how immersed she was in the role. “I knew something was happening when my children told me, ‘Mom, you’re repeating everything three times,’” she said. “Then I noticed that I was not using contractions very much when I talked—there are no contractions at all in the first act of Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein.” Carroll is survived by her two daughters—Kerry and Tara Karsian, as well as her granddaughter, Evan.