Rhoda Williams

Rhoda Elaine Williams (July 19, 1930 – March 8, 2006) was an American actress best known as Drizella Tremaine in Cinderella.

Early life and education Rhoda Williams was born on July 19, 1930, in Denver, Colorado.

Williams graduated from Hollywood High School when she was 14, following which she earned a degree in theatre arts at the University of California.

Early radio 1937–57 In 1949, Williams began a 5-year stint as Robert Young's oldest daughter, Betty, on Father Knows Best. She attended Hollywood High School, earning a BA degree from UCLA at age 18.

Early life and filmed television With the advent of television, Williams moved into the new medium on such early live shows as Lights, Camera, Action! and Slice of Life and, with the advent of film TV, Date With Judy, Chrysler Theatre, Laredo, The Big Valley, Run for Your Life, Dragnet, Ironside, Project UFO, Marcus Welby, M.D., Policewoman, and Barnaby Jones. She appeared on Superior Court and General Hospital and provided alien voices for Star Trek IV and Star Trek V.

Voice overs She also specialized in voices and dialects and was the "voice" for Brigitte Bardot in the American version of The Night Heaven Fell, as well as voicing a 9-year-old French boy in The Jayhawkers!. She returned to Walt Disney Studios as the voice and model for the AudioAnimatronic mother and teen-age daughter at the General Electric "Carousel of Progress" at Disneyland. She also did uncredited voice work for an episode of The Twilight Zone, "Little Girl Lost".

Graduate study and teaching

In 1968, she started work on her master's degree at California State University, Northridge. While studying for her degree, she began a second career as a teacher of dialects and speech for the stage. First at CSUN's Summer Teenage Drama Workshop, then during the regular sessions. She also created a filmstrip on "Medieval Theatre" which was distributed by Oleson Films to high schools and colleges throughout the country. She received her Master of Arts degree in theatre in 1972 and continued to teach at CSUN intermittently. She also taught voice and speech at Estelle Harman's Actor's Workshop in Hollywood.

Work for the union

She began a long association with various civic and professional organizations in 1959, when she served as PTA President for Alexandria Avenue School in Los Angeles. She joined the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1937 and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) in 1939. While she was a member of the Los Angeles Local, she was a Local and National Board member,

Partial filmography Stolen Heaven (1938) - Young Girl (uncredited) National Velvet (1944) - Schoolgirl (uncredited) The Corn Is Green (1945) - Wylodine (uncredited) Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) - Marguerite Larsen - School Girl (uncredited) That Hagen Girl (1947) - College Student (uncredited) Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) - Sorority Girl (uncredited) House of Strangers (1949) - Woman (uncredited) All the King's Men (1949) - Undetermined Role (uncredited) Cinderella (1950) - Drizella (voice) A Woman of Distinction (1950) - Minor Role (uncredited) The Persuader (1957) - Nell Landis Space Master X-7 (1958) - Stewardess Archer High School Hellcats (1958) - Trudy Davis The Heart Is a Rebel (1958) - Miss Canfield - Hal's Secretary The Sergeant Was a Lady (1961) - Lt. Witt Critic's Choice (1963) - Telephone Operator (uncredited) Triangle (1970)