Joseph T. Ainley and Gerson were wed in 1936 at Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church. He was the Leo Burnett Company, Inc.’s radio director at the time. They stayed together till his passing in 1965. The couple had no children.
Gerson retired in 1966, albeit still utilizing her voice, working at the telephone answering business of her second husband, Louis R. “Lou” Lauria, to whom she was married from 1966 until his death in 1994. Both of those unions were childless.
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In 1996, she received the Disney Legends honor. In 1997, she made one final cinematic appearance, lending her voice to Frances in Cats Don’t Dance.
Betty Lou Gerson was an American actress who worked primarily in radio but also in film, television, and as a voice actress.
She was born on April 20, 1914, and she passed away on January 12, 1999. She is well known for providing the original Cruella de Vil voice in the Disney animated feature 101 Dalmatians (1961), for which she was honored as a Disney Legend in 1996.
