Marcellite Garner

Edna Marcellite Lincoln (née Garner) was an American artist and voice actress. She is most remembered as the first regular voice of Minnie Mouse during her time working at Walt Disney Productions and has been partially credited with defining Minnie's personality.
Garner was born in Redlands, California in 1910 and attended night classes at John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in where she studied art.
Garner started working at Disney on February 17, 1930, after interviewing the previous year. She worked in the ink and paint department, first working as a cel painter and later as an inker. The studio at the time was a small organization of about 35 employees. After Garner had been working for about six months, she auditioned for the voice of Minnie Mouse at the studio's sound stage, then located on Melrose Avenue. Because Minnie was to play a Mexican in the upcoming film The Cactus Kid, Burt Gillett had asked the Ink and Paint department, which was entirely women, if anyone could speak Spanish. Only Garner and another woman responded, and when the other woman was unwilling to sing, Garner was cast for the role. She went on to voice Minnie in more than 40 films over a decade. Occasionally, Garner also provided additional voices, such as cat meows (Three Orphan Kittens), dog barking, and crowd noises.
During the Disney animators' strike of 1941, Garner shot home video of the picket lines in color. Some of this footage appears in the 2001 documentary Walt – The Man Behind the Myth. Garner was sympathetic to the studio during the strike, commenting "I couldn't see that we were not being treated fairly. People weren't so union oriented then I guess." She described the atmosphere at the studio as "one big family" before the studio was unionized.
Garner worked at the Disney studio off and on for 12 years, during which she also did work for some other studios, including Walter Lantz Productions. In 1941, she permanently quit her job at Disney to devote more time to her children.
She died twenty-three days after her 83rd birthday.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Role
1930	The Cactus Kid 	Minnie Mouse
1930	The Fire Fighters 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1930	Midnight in a Toy Shop 	Spider/Dolls
1930	The Shindig 	Minnie MouseClarabelle Cow - uncredited
1930	Night 	Moon
1930	Monkey Melodies 	Female Monkey
1930	The Gorilla Mystery 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1930	The Picnic 	Minnie Mouse
1930	Winter 	Mr. Groundhog's Scream
1930	Pioneer Days 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1931	The Birthday Party 	Minnie Mouse
1931	Traffic Troubles 	Minnie Mouse
1931	The China Plate 	Chinese Girl
1931	The Delivery Boy 	Minnie Mouse
1931	Mickey Steps Out 	Minnie Mouse
1931	The Cat's Out 	Owls
1931	Blue Rhythm 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1931	Egyptian Melodies 	Spider Scream
1931	The Barnyard Broadcast 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1931	The Beach Party 	Minnie Mouse
1931	Mickey Cuts Up 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1931	Mickey's Orphans 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1932	The Grocery Boy 	Minnie Mouse
1932	Barnyard Olympics 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1932	Mickey's Revue 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1932	Musical Farmer 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1932	Mickey in Arabia 	Minnie Mouse
1932	Mickey's Nightmare 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1932	King Neptune 	Mermaids - uncredited
1932	The Whoopee Party 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1932	The Wayward Canary 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1932	The Klondike Kid 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	Building a Building 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	Mickey's Pal Pluto 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	Mickey's Mellerdrammer 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	Ye Olden Days 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	The Mail Pilot 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	Mickey's Gala Premier 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	Mickey's Mechanical Man	Minnie Mouse
1933	Puppy Love 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	The Steeple-Chase 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	The Pet Store 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1933	Giantland 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1934	Shanghaied 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1934	Camping Out 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1934	Mickey's Steam-Roller 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1934	Orphan's Benefit 	Orphans
1934	Mickey Plays Papa 	Elmer
1934	Two-Gun Mickey 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1935	On Ice 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1936	Mickey's Rival 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1936	Toby Tortoise Returns 	Girl Bunny - uncredited
1937	Hawaiian Holiday 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1938	Boat Builders 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1938	Brave Little Tailor 	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1938	Merbabies 	Merbabies
1939	Mickey's Surprise Party	Minnie Mouse - uncredited
1941	Orphan's Benefit 	Orphans
1941	The Nifty Nineties 	Minnie Mouse
2013	Get a Horse! 	Minnie mouse (archive sound)
==Roles==
Minnie in red and yellow dress.jpg|Minnie Mouse(1930–1941; Get a Horse! (archive recorded))
CLARABELLE-THREE.jpg|Clarabelle Cow(1930)
Marcellite Garner's Mermaids.jpg|Mermaids(King Neptune)
Merbabies 10large.jpg|Merbabies(Merbabies)
Tumblr mjbd1fCwHx1r3jmn6o1 500.png|Girl Bunny #2(Toby Tortoise Returns)
File:BabyElmer.jpg|Elmer(Mickey Plays Papa)
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