I think we’ve discussed Sterling Holloway (1905) at the Facebook page for the VWRS before. Anyone who watches old movies and television regularly knows his face. And if you don’t know his face, you certainly know his voice. As a child, I thought he was Harpo Marx for a time. He was born Sterling Price Holloway Jr. to a Georgia grocer and his wife. He had a younger brother named Boothby. It’s all so Southern…   Anyway, Sterling got his big break in silent films in the mid 1920s; one of his earliest films was a version of CASEY AT THE BAT with TIGers Wallace Beery and Zasu Pitts. He also appeared in two Daphne Pollard shorts, THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE and THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE. It’s something that he started to get noticed even before anyone had heard that amazing voice on screen. He continued to get regular supporting work in the 1930s in films like PICTURE SNATCHER, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and THE LOTTERY LOVER. In 1937, he played Miles Corbin-cow herder in MAID OF SALEM, a film where Ginny was cast as Nabby Goode. Sterling’s star rose in the 1940s as his roles got bigger and he discovered that he could get additional work from Walt Disney by using his voice in animated features. He “appeared” in DUMBO, BAMBI, THE THREE CABALLEROS and many other animated films. By the 1950s and television, Holloway was always in demand. He appeared in several episodes of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (always as a confused professor), did the Disney version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and became a semi-regular as Waldo Binney on THE LIFE OF RILEY. He even appeared as Jack Pumpkinhead on THE LAND OF OZ episode of SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S STORYBOOK. Despite the fact that he is mainly remembered for playing WINNE THE POOH, he didn’t start that role until 1966. Before that, he was the fire chief in IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD and spent a season on a sitcom called the BAILEYS OF BALBOA, which starred Les Brown Jr., the son of the bandleader that Ginny appeared with in vaudeville and for whom brother George Weidler worked when he met Doris Day.  Sterling’s awards include a Grammy for best children’s record, the Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to animation, and being named a Disney Legend in 1991. He also merits a roadside historical marker in his native Georgia.  In the photo, Holloway is with Mary Treen and Claudette Colbert in MoS.