Queenie Leonard was an English actress and singer, who appeared in several films throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. In addition to her film appearances, she performed as a cabaret star. Her voice roles for Disney included the Mother bird and Snooty Flower in Alice in Wonderland and Princess in One Hundred and One Dalmatians. She also had a cameo as a bank customer in Mary Poppins.
Leonard was born in Lancashire, England in 1905 and began performing on stage with her father when she was 14 years old. She also appeared in cabaret in Britain and in the United States and starred in a one-woman show. After making her film debut in 1931, Leonard appeared in films, like Kate Plus Ten, This Above All, The Lodger, Doctor Dolittle, And Then There Were None, Life with Father, Star!, My Fair Lady, Molly and Me, The Black Arrow, A Life of Her Own, Thunder on the Hill, What a Way to Go!, Ring of Fear, and Les Misérables, most of which she went uncredited.
She also appeared on television shows, like The Loretta Young Show, Hazel, Bewitched, and I Dream of Jeannie.
Leonard died of natural causes on January 17, 2002, in West Los Angeles, one month before her 97th birthday. She is buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles in the burial plot called the "Garden of Roses".
Roles[]
(Alice in Wonderland)
(Mary Poppins)