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| | Cliff Edwards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Cliff Edwards (14 June, 1895 - 17 July, 1971), also known as "Ukelele Ike", was a United States singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, and also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career. |
 | | Edwards voice was also featured in two other films that year; he voiced the dying Confederate soldier in Gone With the Wind, and most famously the character Jiminy Cricket in the Disney Studios cartoon feature Pinocchio. |
 | | Edwards was broke in his later years, living in a home for indigent actors, often spending his days hanging around the Walt Disney Studios to be available any time he could get voice work and being taken to lunch by animators who he told stories of his days in Vaudeville. |
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