Margaret Hill/Talbot

Margaret E. Hill was born June 26, 1911 in Minonk, Illinois. Moved to Fairbury Ill. then to Oregon, Ill.. She went to school in Illinois until high school then moved to Pasadena, California. She attended high school at Pasadena High School then went on to Pasadena City College. (Where she took singing and prepped for college) At Whittier College she studied for her teaching credential for Kindergarten and Primary grades. During this time she also attended Pasadena Playhouse where she met her future husband Ralph E Talbot. On a whim and urging from friends (Because of her voice) she applied to Walter Lantz Studios for voiceover work in cartoons. (Andy Panda for one) Later she also worked for Warner Bros. Her first cartoon for Warner was also Chuck Jones’ first for them, and was titled “The Night Watchman”. It was released in November of 1938. She worked for Mr. Jones again and that was the first Sniffles the Mouse cartoon, “Naughty But Mice,” it was released in May of 1939. She did all of the Sniffles’ voices until “The Brave Little Bat” which was released in September of 1941. She passed in January 19,1961.