Pat Bright on Car 54, Where Are You?
Pat Bright (1922-2009), also credited as Patricia Bright, was a voice actor who was heard in Tee Collins segments on Sesame Street, as the narrator and all other voices in "Wanda the Witch" from the first episode and "Nancy the Nanny Goat" (First: Episode 0240).
An impressionist and comic performer, Bright performed in clubs and made her Broadway debut in the 1943 musical You'll See Stars (with Arnold Stang). Other Broadway shows included the 1950 revue Tickets, Please! and the James Thurber based shows A Thurber Carnival (replacing Alice Ghostley) and The Beast in Me (1963, standby for Kaye Ballard). She was a regular on the sitcom It's Always Jan (1956), occasionally recurred in the second season of Car 54, Where Are You? (as the wife of the fuming Captain Block), and used her mimicry skills on a 1966 To Tell the Truth (imitating mystery guest Bette Davis).
Heard in several comedy albums, Bright did impressions of Pat Nixon (on Richard Nixon Superstar and another Nixon album as well as The National Lampoon Radio Hour) and Elizabeth Taylor (on Life with Liz and Dick, with Avery Schreiber). She supplied the genuine female voices on the album Whistle Stopping with Jonathan Winters and mimicked Jean Stapleton and Sally Struthers on the single Mad Magazine Presents Gall In The Family Fare. She was heard on commercials, sometimes dubbing other actresses, and in animation including Rankin/Bass specials (Twas the Night Before Christmas, the cat in Pinocchio's First Christmas) and the English dub of the French adult animated feature Tarzoon. She was heard in the cast of the 1981 NPR radio serial A Canticle for Leibowitz (with Russell Horton).