Sterling Holloway

Sterling Holloway (January 4, 1905 - November 22, 1992) was a perennial voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios, who began with a cameo role in Dumbo and later became a Disney legend as the voice of Winnie the Pooh.

Early career

Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. was named after Confederate General Sterling "Pap" Price. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia in 1905. After attending the Georgia Military Academy in College Park, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Holloway made his way through the Theater Guild to appear in the first joint venture of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Garrick Gaieties, a series of revues in the 1920s. With his light tenor voice, young Holloway made a foray into a professional singing career. He introduced the Rodgers and Hart standard "I'll Take Manhattan" in 1925, and in the 1926 edition of Garrick Gaities he sang "Mountain Greenery" ("...where God paints the scenery").

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Confederate - Sterling "Pap" Price - Cedartown, Georgia - American Academy of Dramatic Arts - Theater Guild - Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart - Garrick Gaieties - Revue - 1925 - 1926

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