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name: "Sarah Selby"
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born: "30 August 1905"
died: "7 January 1980"
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# Sarah Selby

Actor. Born 30 August 1905 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 7 January 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 August 1905, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 7 January 1980
- **Also known as:** Sara Selby
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3473423, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114955

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Dumbo*](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md) (87)

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## Biography

Sarah Selby (also credited as Sara Selby) was an American actress. She began her career as a radio performer and made her screen debut voicing Prissy the Elephant in the Disney animated film *Dumbo* (1941).

Selby worked primarily as a character actress in minor film and television roles, often portraying gossips, aunts or teachers. She appeared in films including *Beyond the Forest* (1949) and *Tower of London* (1962). On television she had recurring parts on *The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show* and as Ma Smalley on *Gunsmoke* (1955–1975), and played Aunt Gertrude in the 1956 *Mickey Mouse Club* serial *The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dumbo* (1941), Fi1m 87, as Prissy the Elephant (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md)

## Also known for

- *An Affair to Remember* (1957), Miss Lane (uncredited)
- *The Great Race* (1965), Townswoman (uncredited)
- *I Love Lucy* (1951), Dorothy Cook
- *The Seventh Victim* (1943), Miss Gottschalk (Uncredited)
- *The Curse of the Cat People* (1944), Caroler Miss Plumett (uncredited)
- *Perry Mason* (1957), Millicent - Police Clerk
- *The Country Girl* (1954), Theatregoer (uncredited)
- *The Sniper* (1952), TV Interviewer (uncredited)

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