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Lucille Bliss

Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (died 2012)

Born
March 31, 1916
Died
November 8, 2012
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1916

About Lucille Bliss

Lucille Theresa Bliss was an American actress, known in the Bay Area and in Hollywood as the "Girl With a Thousand Voices". A New York City native, Bliss lent her voice to numerous television characters, including the title character of the first made-for-television cartoon, Crusader Rabbit, Smurfette on the popular 1980s cartoon The Smurfs and Ms. Her father's death in 1935 prompted Frieda and Lucille to move to California, where her mother became head of the music department at the San Francisco College for Women.

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The world when Lucille Bliss was born

Lucille Bliss was born in 1916. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1916

  • Best-selling book"Seventeen" – Booth Tarkington

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentGeorgia Tech defeats Cumberland 222-0, most lopsided football game ever
  • Top headlineBattle of the Somme — 1 million casualties
  • Technology milestoneTanks first used in warfare
  • Notable inventionMilitary tanks
  • World population~1.76B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population99.6M

1916 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Lucille Bliss's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19162026
Population99.6M341 million

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