Actor: Kathryn Beaumont

Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan, and also performed live-action reference for the animators, which meant acting the entire films physically for them to draw from.

She was ten and thirteen respectively, and both performances fixed how those characters move as well as sound.

She became a schoolteacher in California and taught for more than thirty years, returning occasionally to re-record the roles for later Disney productions.

Alice in Wonderland (1951) film posterEd Wynn

Alice in Wonderland (1951) Review

Alice in Wonderland is one of the substantial mid-century Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Lewis Carroll sourc. Various preproduction attempts had failed across multiple decades partly because of the substantial creative challenges that the Carroll…

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