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Betty Lou Gerson was an American actress known as the original voice of Cruella de Vil from the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1996.
She was active in radio but also in film and television and played roles as a voice actress. She was born on April 20, 1914, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, and lived a great life until her death in Los Angeles on January 12, 1999, at the age of 84. The cause of death was labeled to be a stroke. 

Betty Lou Gerson’s husband

Betty Lou Gerson had been married twice during her lifetime and had a great marriage though they all passed on before she did. Betty Lou Gerson got married in 1936 to Joseph T. Ainley at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was the radio director of the Leo Burnett Company, Incorporated. The couple remained married until his death in 1965.

Betty Lou Gerson later remarried for the second time to Louis R. “Lou” Lauria, to whom she was married from 1966 until his death in 1994. Gerson retired in 1966, though still using her voice, working at the telephone answering service of her second husband.

Betty Lou Gerson children

Betty Lou Gerson had no children from all her two marriages but she did have three step-children she catered for.

Betty Lou Gerson parents

Betty Lou Gerson was an exceptional actress who had enjoyed her life till there was none left. It is unfortunate that there is no information relating to her family. According to sources, Betty Lou Gerson’s father was an executive with a steel company

Betty Lou Gerson siblings

Betty Lou Gerson never made mention of having any siblings from wither parent. Her silence kept details of her family away from the media.

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