Pat Carroll, Who Voiced Ursula In “The Little Mermaid,” Has Died At 95

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Carroll was best known for her role voicing Ursula, the villain with an unmistakable laugh in the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid. She has said in interviews that it was a “lifelong ambition” of hers to be in a Disney movie.

“She is physically bigger than life, but she’s bigger than life in her head, in her voice, in her laughter, and in her meanness,” she said about Ursula in an interview with Disney Parks. “She’s a mean ol’ thing. I think people are fascinated by mean characters … I’m even intrigued by her when I look at it.”

But she had an accomplished career long before that, especially in the early decades of TV. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1927, Carroll and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 5. She booked gigs at comedy clubs after graduating college and then acted in theater shows. She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for her Broadway debut in Catch A Star.

Carroll was a regular on the sitcom Make Room For Daddy and had a recurring role on The Danny Thomas Show. In 1957, she won an Emmy for Best Supporting Performance in the sketch comedy show Caesar’s Hour. She also often appeared as a guest on game and variety shows.

In the late ’70s, she put on a one-woman play, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, which ran for 14 months in New York before she took it on the road. The show won her a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress and the Outer Circle Drama Critics’ award for Best Production Off Broadway in 1980.

At the time, she told the Washington Post that her children noticed 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 also won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word, Documentary, or Drama Recording in 1981 for a recording of the play.

The Cannes Film Festival Is Practically The New Met Gala, So I’m Curious What You Think Of These 40 Viral Looks

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31 Outdoor Home Items So Gorgeous, You’ll Wanna Move To Your Backyard

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This set includes six 28″ Burlywood hardwood handles, six 8″ hardwood mallets with caps for added protection, two 18″ hardwood ending stakes, six 2.8″ weather-resistant molded balls, nine steel wickets with vinyl coating, and a nice bag to carry it all in.

Promising review: “This croquet set is artfully made and really such a steal for the money you will pay! The sticks and mallets are all made out of durable hard wood and the mallets have a rubber sleeve that goes on each end to help protect the mallet from damage overtime. The balls are on the heavier side, as they should be. They are resistant to weather, so no need to pick them up if you didn’t finish your game, same with the wickets. All of this comes in a nice carrying case that can actually handle the weight of the set itself! The colors are vibrant so there will be no question which ball is yours and genuinely I do not feel like they will fade or lose their quality. I would absolutely buy this again!” —Dido

Get it from Amazon for $39.55+ (available in two colors).

46 Practical Parenting Products That You Should Just Own Already

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The stickers feature letters, numbers, vehicles, butterflies, deep-sea life, animals, fish, dinosaurs, and more. Even if you find stickers on your shoes, walls, coffee table, and laptop later, you’ll be able to easily peel ’em off — phew!

Promising review: “I love that they are removable. They don’t leave marks on your window. You can even place them back on the plastic sheet and use them again. I have a busy box for my toddler and these stickers are in there. She peels them off and puts them on the lid of the box and then peels them off again and puts them back. She creates scenes with them. She puts them on windows at home. I peel them off and put them back. They really are fantastic stickers.” —Elizabeth A. Zapf

Get a pack of 20 sheets from Amazon for $7.99.