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55-699: Witch Hazel later appeared in Broom-Stick Bunny (1956), A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959), and in A-Haunting We Will Go (1966). She also has a brief cameo appearance in Transylvania 6-5000 (1963). The story begins with Bugs Bunny reading the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel . Witch Hazel plays the witch who tries to cook and eat the children (her cookbook has such recipes as "Waif Waffles", "Moppet Muffins", "Kiddie Kippers", "Children Chops", and "Smorgas Boy"). Bugs witnesses Witch Hazel coaxing

110-428: A hypnotherapist by trade, as seen in "Point, Laser Point", where she provided Sylvester with services when he was in denial about his relationship with his mother. In "It's a Handbag", she helped Daffy recall who took his handbag. In "Best Friends Redux", Witch Lezah has a time portal in her home, which Daffy uses to jealously ensure that Bugs Bunny and Rodney Rabbit never meet. When nobody knows Daffy, Witch Lezah, who

165-414: A Genie with light brown hair." Bugs Bunny was pitted against Witch Hazel for the last time in A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959), a parody of Macbeth . This short was directed by Abe Levitow . Rabbit is once again the missing ingredient to Witch Hazel's brew and Bugs happens to be in the area. Meanwhile, a William Shakespeare look-alike observes the action in search of inspiration. Bugs finds out that

220-455: A beverage which turns out to be the Pretty Potion. Transformed into a beautiful young woman, Hazel asks her magic mirror if she is still ugly. The genie in her mirror instantly falls in love with her and Hazel flies off into the night on her flying broomstick and the genie chases after her on his magic carpet . Bugs calls Air Raid headquarters to alert them about a "Flying Socceress chased by

275-496: A brief, silent cameo appearance from Witch Hazel (or a character very similar to her) as Bugs briefly transforms Count Bloodcount , the cartoon's vampire antagonist, into her through the use of a magic spell. Once production shifted to DePatie–Freleng Enterprises , Witch Hazel appeared in the cartoon A-Haunting We Will Go (1966), which also starred Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales . All four of Witch Hazel's original Looney Tunes short cartoons were edited and repurposed into

330-432: A carrot (hollowed out and filled with a sleeping potion) as a lure. Bugs eats the carrot and falls asleep and Witch Hazel puts him into a roasting pan to make rabbit stew. After the witch goes down into the basement to get something else, a character resembling Prince Charming enters the house and kisses Bugs' hand. Bugs wakes up and says: "You're looking for Snow White . This here's the story of HAHHN-sel and Gretel", and

385-480: A fire cult. She also appeared on camera in an episode of Green Acres as a Mexican telephone operator. In 1991, she provided her voice as the sock-puppet talk-show host Scary Mary on an episode of Married... with Children . She had a cameo role in Boris & Natasha (1992), but once again played Rocky and Natasha throughout the feature film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000). Another on-camera appearance

440-875: A little boy in The Comic . In 1996 and 1997, Foray won the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production for her work in Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries . In 2000, Foray returned to play Rocky the Flying Squirrel in Universal Pictures ' live-action/CGI animated film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle , co-starring and produced by Robert De Niro . On Season Three, Episode One (" The Thin White Line ") of Family Guy , Foray again played Rocky in

495-404: A single tooth. She has two pets: a tarantula named Paul, and a black cat. She also has two magic brooms: one for sweeping the floor and one for flying. Bewitched Bunny retells the fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel . Witch Hazel plays the witch who attempts to cook and eat the children. Bugs Bunny witnesses her coax the children inside and saves the youths from Witch Hazel's clutches because

550-578: A small child, Foray first wanted to be a dancer, so her mother sent her to local classes, but she had to drop out due to a case of pneumonia . Her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years old; by age 15, she was doing regular radio voice work. Two years later, after graduating from Classical High School , she moved with her parents and siblings to live in Los Angeles , near Ida's brother, after Morris Forer, an engineer, fell on hard financial times. After entering radio through

605-876: A visual gag with a single line ("And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!"). Foray voiced the wife of the man getting dunked ("Don't tell him, Carlos!") in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. In 2003, she guest starred as the villain Madame Argentina in the Powerpuff Girls episode, "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future". During this time, Foray also had a regular role, reprising Granny on Baby Looney Tunes and also Witch Hazel in an episode of another Warner Bros. Animation series Duck Dodgers . In October 2006, she portrayed Susan B. Anthony on three episodes of

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660-465: Is a much different witch from her Disney counterpart. The Looney Tunes character is a highly stylized villainess. Her rotund, green-skinned body is wrapped in a plain, blue dress and supported by twig-like legs. She has wild black hair from which hairpins fly and spin in midair whenever she zooms off on her broom or cackles in glee over her next evil scheme and she wears a crumpled black hat. Her nose and chin jut bulbously from her face and her mouth sports

715-591: Is credited with coming up with the idea of the Annie Awards in 1972, awarded by ASIFA-Hollywood, having noted that there had been no awards to celebrate the field of animation. In 1988, she was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award . In 1995, ASIFA-Hollywood established the June Foray Award, which is awarded to "individuals who have made a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on

770-465: Is not the female Mel Blanc . Mel Blanc was the male June Foray." June Lucille Forer was born on September 18, 1917, in Springfield, Massachusetts , one of three children of Ida (Robinson) and Morris Forer. Her mother was of Lithuanian Jewish and French Canadian ancestry, and her father was a Jewish emigrant from Odessa , Russian Empire . The family resided at 75 Orange Street, Forest Park . As

825-449: Is uglier far than you!" Jealous that this newcomer is uglier than herself, Hazel attempts to trick the "witch" into drinking a "Pretty Potion" disguised as tea. Bugs removes his mask to drink it and she becomes obsessed with using the rabbit in her witch's brew. Hazel captures him by tricking him with a carrot. Hazel is about to kill Bugs, but becomes distraught when his sad eyes remind her of Paul, her pet tarantula . Bugs calms her down with

880-450: Is unaffected by the time change, sends Daffy back in time to correct it, as it's ultimately because of Rodney that Bugs and Daffy met and became friends. Daffy uses Witch Lezah's time portal again to make sure he and Porky Pig meet. June Foray This is an accepted version of this page June Foray (born June Lucille Forer ; September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American voice actress and radio personality , best known as

935-471: Is voiced by Roz Ryan , who gives the character a pronounced African American patois . In the series, she is Gossamer 's mother. Unlike the other characters and her original character, she is always serious and gives advice that is not nonsensical and is more calm. She has a contradictory relationship with Daffy; she once threatened him into helping Gossamer make friends. Once Gossamer has friends she asks Daffy to stay away despite all his hard work. She has been

990-683: The Looney Tunes Cartoons short "Hex Appeal", which is part of a Halloween special titled Bugs Bunny's Howl-O-Skreem Spooktacula . Witch Hazel appears in the Teen Titans Go! episode, "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary". She is among the Looney Tunes characters guests for the Warner Bros. centennial celebration. The 2011 animated series The Looney Tunes Show introduces Witch Hazel renamed to Witch Lezah . Lezah ("Hazel" spelled backwards)

1045-543: The WBZA Players, Foray starred in her own radio series Lady Make Believe in the late 1930s. She soon became a popular voice actress, with regular appearances on coast-to-coast network shows including Lux Radio Theatre and The Jimmy Durante Show . In the 1940s, Foray also began film work, including a few roles in live action movies, but mostly did voice over work for animated cartoons and radio programs and occasionally dubbing films and television. On radio, Foray did

1100-570: The Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons and TV shows. Witch Hazel is a fairy tale witch antagonist with green skin, a round figure, bulbous facial features, and a single tooth. The name is a pun on the witch-hazel plant and folk remedies based on it. Created by Chuck Jones during the golden age of American animation , the character was originally voiced by Bea Benaderet in 1954's Bewitched Bunny . Benaderet would later be replaced by June Foray , who voiced

1155-399: The fourth wall and comments, "Ah sure, I know. But aren't they all witches inside?" In Broom-Stick Bunny , Witch Hazel takes great pride in her status as the ugliest witch. While trick-or-treating on Halloween as a witch, Bugs Bunny visits Witch Hazel's house and she mistakes him for an actual witch. So does her magic mirror, which warns, "You're an ugly one, 'tis true; but that creep

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1210-499: The 1977 television special Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special . June Foray recorded new and redubbed dialogue for Witch Hazel in the special, including in newly animated content to link the classic clips together into one narrative. Witch Hazel made a cameo in the deleted "Pig Head" scene of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) . She is seen flying around on Beelzebub before getting struck by lightning. Witch Hazel has appeared in cameos in various Warner Bros. productions, such as

1265-537: The 1980s, and was replaced in later versions with "Sure uh, I know, but after all, who wants to be alone on Halloween?", which was the re-dubbed line for the ending of Bewitched Bunny after it was repurposed in 1977's Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special . This controversy was briefly mentioned by Eric Goldberg on the DVD commentary of the fifth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set. However,

1320-638: The Brain , Tiny Toon Adventures and Duck Dodgers (which references Broom-Stick Bunny and where June Foray returns to do her voice). She was also featured as the lead antagonist in DC Comics ' three-issue Bugs Bunny miniseries from 1990 (though at the ending of the storyline, her appearance there is actually revealed to be a disguised Wile E. Coyote ). She was used as an enemy in Scott Lowenstein's Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 4 and her silhouette can be seen on

1375-671: The Jungle ; and also starred on Fractured Flickers . In the mid-1960s, she became devoted to the preservation and promotion of animation and wrote numerous magazine articles about animation. She and a number of other animation artists had informal meetings around Hollywood in the 1960s, and later decided to formalize this as ASIFA-Hollywood , a chapter of the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (the International Animated Film Association ). She

1430-498: The Masked Avenger is not around. Once the witch realizes that Bugs is a rabbit , she chases him to put him into her witch's brew. Upon putting Bugs into a sleeping spell, he is awoken by a kiss from Prince Charming ; Bugs then tells him that he is in the wrong story. Bugs eventually uses Hazel's own magic against her and transforms her into a sexy female rabbit, to whom he is instantly attracted. He walks away with her while he breaks

1485-517: The Prince takes his leave, confused about how Hansel is pronounced. Then Hazel emerges from the basement and Bugs races down a nearby hallway to escape, but is trapped by Hazel. As she approaches, Bugs quickly finds a grenade full of her magic powder (in a case marked with the message "In case of emergency break glass") and uses it to transform her into a gorgeous female rabbit who has a feminine voice but still has Hazel's laugh. As he gets ready to leave with

1540-1014: The academy to establish an Academy Award for animation; the academy created the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001 from her petitioning. In 2007, Britt Irvin became the first person to voice a character in a cartoon remake that had been previously played by Foray in the original series when she voiced Ursula in the new George of the Jungle series on Cartoon Network . In 2011, Roz Ryan voiced Witch Lezah (Hazel spelled backwards) in The Looney Tunes Show , opposite June Foray as Granny. Foray also voiced May Parker in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–83), as well as Raggedy Ann on several TV movies, Grandma Howard on Teen Wolf , Jokey Smurf and Mother Nature on The Smurfs , and Magica De Spell and Ma Beagle in DuckTales . At

1595-624: The art and industry of animation". Foray was the first recipient of the award. She was an enthusiastic member of the Los Angeles Student Film Institute advisory board and frequent host and/or presenter at its annual festivals. In 2007, Foray became a contributor to ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Archive Project . She also had sat on the Governors' board for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and lobbied for two decades for

1650-466: The bunny beauty, Bugs looks at the audience, breaking the fourth wall , and comments: "Ah sure, I know. But aren't they all witches inside?". This cartoon caused some controversy in Canada due to Bugs' ending line about Witch Hazel being turned into a rabbit being perceived as misogynistic. And Bugs' closing line, "Ah sure, I know, but aren't they all witches inside?" was edited out of commercial broadcasts in

1705-450: The character June Bellamy (voiced by Tress MacNeille ) is introduced as the voice behind both Itchy and Scratchy . According to The Simpsons writer and producer Mike Reiss , Foray voiced a few parts at the first table read for The Simpsons in early 1989 "but she sounded too cartoony for our show". Foray appeared on camera in a major role only once, in Sabaka , as the high priestess of

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1760-458: The character almost exclusively beginning with 1956's Broom-Stick Bunny and concluding with 2002's Twick or Tweety . Tress MacNeille would briefly voice Witch Hazel from 1992 to 1994 for episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs . After Foray's departure from the role, the character was voiced by Roz Ryan from 2011 to 2013 for The Looney Tunes Show (as Witch Lezah) and by Candi Milo from 2017 onward. Different characters of

1815-486: The characters were also not expected to have any longevity. In her initial appearance, Bewitched Bunny (1954), she is voiced by Bea Benaderet . Starting with Broom-Stick Bunny (1956), Foray took over voicing the character. To differentiate the characters, Foray said that she performed the Disney version with a British accent, but the Warner Bros. version was "all American". Despite their common name, Jones' Witch Hazel

1870-422: The children inside. He comments that this looks like a job for the Masked Avenger, but he's not around. Bugs goes in her house, disguised as a truant officer , and saves the youths from her clutches. The children both turn to Hazel as they leave and say in a thick German accent : "Ach - your mother rides a vacuum cleaner !" However, once Hazel realizes that Bugs is a rabbit, she tries to cook him instead, using

1925-743: The cover of the game. Witch Hazel has a cameo in the video game adaptation of Looney Tunes: Back in Action as a painting parodying the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum. Witch Hazel is also spotted in a MetLife commercial in 2012. Witch Hazel also makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the film Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run . Witch Hazel also starred in the New Looney Tunes segments "Finders Keepers, Losers Sweepers", "Hiccups and Downs" and "It's Snout or Never". Witch Hazel made her first appearance in

1980-549: The episode "The Bedrock Hillbillies". She did extensive voice acting for Stan Freberg 's commercials, albums, and 1957 radio series , memorably as secretary to the werewolf advertising executive. She also appeared in several Rankin/Bass TV specials in the 1960s and 1970s, voicing the young Karen and the teacher in the TV special Frosty the Snowman (although only her Karen singing parts remained in later airings, after Rankin-Bass re-edited

2035-839: The feature film Cinderella , Lambert's mother in Lambert the Sheepish Lion , a mermaid in Peter Pan and Witch Hazel in the Donald Duck short Trick or Treat . Decades later, Foray was the voice of Grandmother Fa in the 1998 animated Disney film Mulan . She also did a variety of voices in Walter Lantz Productions ' Woody Woodpecker cartoons, including Woody's nephew and niece, Knothead and Splinter. Impressed by her performance as Witch Hazel, in 1954 Chuck Jones invited her over to Warner Brothers Cartoons . For Warner Brothers , she

2090-466: The man is not William Shakespeare, but is actually a man named Sam Crubish. Witch Hazel hears this and it appears that the two know each other but have not seen each other in a while because Crubish had the wrong apartment number, "2B". The poet and Witch Hazel leave talking about who made the mistake. Bugs Bunny quotes the famous line from Hamlet – " To be, or not to be , that is the question." The Bugs Bunny short Transylvania 6-5000 (1963) features

2145-502: The movie Space Jam (1996) and its stand-alone sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), the video games The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 (in which she is the primary antagonist), Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time (in which she appears as a boss and also appears on the cover of the game) and Looney Tunes Collector: Alert! (2000), one episode each of Animaniacs (in a Rita and Runt episode), The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries , Pinky and

2200-609: The oldest entertainer to be nominated for, and to win, an Emmy Award . She reprised her role of Rocky in a Rocky & Bullwinkle short film, which was released in 2014. In September 2013, she was honored with the Governors Award at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards . That same year, she reprised her role as Magica De Spell in the video game DuckTales: Remastered . Foray married Bernard Barondess in 1941. The marriage ended in divorce. She met Hobart Donovan while appearing on The Buster Brown Program on radio. He

2255-480: The original version has been aired in Canada (as recently as 2015) on the Canadian cable channel Teletoon Retro . Bewitched Bunny is available on the second disc of Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 , and the first disc of Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection : Volume 5 . On HBO Max it appears as Season 19 Episode 20. Witch Hazel (Looney Tunes) Witch Hazel is an animated cartoon character in

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2310-402: The part of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones and voiced the character in the original pilot episode, opposite Mel Blanc who voiced Betty's husband, Barney Rubble , but Bea Benaderet was eventually cast in the role; Foray described herself as "terribly disappointed" at not getting to play Betty. Foray eventually made a guest appearance on The Flintstones as the voice of Granny Hatrock in

2365-541: The podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd . In November 2009, Foray appeared twice on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack : in one episode as Ruth, a pie-maker trapped in Bubbie's stomach, and in another episode as Kelly, a young boy having a birthday party and as Kelly's Mom and Captain K'Nuckles' kindergarten teacher. In 2011, she reprised her role as Granny in Cartoon Network 's The Looney Tunes Show , which

2420-497: The receptionist for the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service. This was a play on a Rocky & Bullwinkle gag years earlier in which none of the cartoon's characters, including narrator William Conrad , were able to pronounce "rubber baby buggy bumpers" unerringly. Foray was later homaged by The Simpsons , in the season eight episode " The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show ", in which

2475-447: The same name appeared in several studios' short films throughout the golden age of American animation : the first was in the Disney cartoon Trick or Treat (1952), voiced by June Foray . Inspired by this character, Chuck Jones created his own witch for Warner Bros. , reusing the same pun. Jones could do this because the name was already in use in commercial products; Foray said that

2530-481: The same time, she had a leading role voicing Grammi Gummi on Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears , an animated series credited with kickstarting an era of dramatically increased artistic standards for television animation, working with her Rocky and Bullwinkle co-star Bill Scott until his death in 1985. Foray guest starred only once on The Simpsons , in the season one episode " Some Enchanted Evening ", as

2585-529: The special a few years after it debuted, with Foray's dialogue re-dubbed by an uncredited child actress, Suzanne Davidson). She voiced all the female roles in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina. She played multiple characters on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show , including Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick , as well as male lead character Rocket J. Squirrel (a.k.a. Rocky Squirrel) for Jay Ward , and played Ursula on George of

2640-530: The voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel , Natasha Fatale , Nell Fenwick , Lucifer from Disney's Cinderella , Cindy Lou Who , Jokey Smurf , Granny from the Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Friz Freleng , Grammi Gummi from Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears series, and Magica De Spell , among many others. Her career encompassed radio, theatrical shorts, feature films, television, records (particularly with Stan Freberg ), video games, talking toys, and other media. Foray

2695-569: The voices of Midnight the Cat and Old Grandie the Piano on The Buster Brown Program , which starred Smilin' Ed McConnell , from 1944 to 1952. She later did voices on the Mutual Broadcasting System program Smile Time for Steve Allen . Her work in radio ultimately led her to recording for a number of children's albums for Capitol Records . For Walt Disney , Foray voiced Lucifer the Cat in

2750-469: Was Granny (whom she had played on vinyl records starting in 1950, before officially voicing her in Red Riding Hoodwinked , released in 1955, taking over for Bea Benaderet ), owner of Tweety and Sylvester , and a series of witches, including Looney Tunes ' own Witch Hazel , with Jones as director. Like most of Warner Brothers' voice actors at the time (with the exception of Mel Blanc ), Foray

2805-474: Was also one of the early members of ASIFA-Hollywood , the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation. She is credited with the establishment of the Annie Awards , as well as being instrumental in the creation of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring her voice work in television. Chuck Jones was quoted as saying: "June Foray

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2860-612: Was as herself on an episode of the 1984 TV sitcom The Duck Factory . She was also often called in for ADR voice work for television and feature films. This work included dubbing the voice of Mary Badham in Twilight Zone episode "The Bewitchin' Pool" and the voices for Sean and Michael Brody in some scenes of the film Jaws . She dubbed several people in Bells Are Ringing , Diana Rigg in some scenes of The Hospital , Robert Blake in drag in an episode of Baretta and

2915-542: Was her last regular gig. That year, she received the Comic-Con Icon Award at the 2011 Scream Awards . She also appeared as Granny in the theatrically released Looney Tunes short, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat , which was shortlisted for Academy Award consideration. In 2012, Foray received her first Emmy nomination and won in the category of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for her role as Mrs. Cauldron on The Garfield Show . She thus became, at age 94,

2970-707: Was not credited for her roles in these cartoons. She played Bubbles on The Super 6 and Cindy Lou Who , asking "Santa" why he's taking their tree, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas . In 1960, she provided the speech for Mattel 's original " Chatty Cathy " doll; capitalizing on this, Foray also voiced the malevolent "Talky Tina" doll in the Twilight Zone episode " Living Doll ", first aired on November 1, 1963. Foray worked for Hanna-Barbera , including on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! , The Jetsons , The Flintstones and many other shows. In 1959, she auditioned for

3025-518: Was the show's main writer and had also written The Buster Brown comic book. Foray and Donovan were married from 1955 until Donovan's death in 1976. She had no children by either marriage. In 1973, Foray was an organizer of a meat boycott in response to President Nixon's freezing of meat (and other) prices . As a result of this, Foray was included in the Master list of Nixon's political opponents , commonly known as Nixon's Enemies List . Foray died at

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