Editing Clarence Nash (section)

===Donald Duck===
One source indicates Nash auditioned before a casting director for Walt Disney Studios and did a voice impression of a billy goat that Nash had started doing as a child in Watonga. The director then reached for the intercom and told [[Walt Disney]], "I think we have found our duck."<ref name="Watonga" /> Another version indicates Nash went through several of his voices, and Walt Disney happened by when Nash gave his impersonation of a family of [[duck]]s. Disney declared Nash perfect for the role of a talking duck in their upcoming animated short, ''[[The Wise Little Hen]]''. The duck was Donald Duck, who Nash went on to voice for 51 years, in over 120 shorts and films. The last film to feature Nash's famous voice was 1983's ''[[Mickey's Christmas Carol]]'', although he continued to provide Donald's voice for commercials, promos, and other miscellaneous material until his death.

As early as 1938, promoters from [[Lecture circuit|lecture circuits]] were approaching him on his unique voice of Donald. Disney reportedly did not like the engagements at first, feeling that a human doing the voice would be spoiling the illusion, but then long after he had second thoughts. In early 1941, Nash was traveling on personal appearance tours sponsored by Disney. During World War II, Nash, with his ventriloquist puppet of Donald, which was built by Disney's character modeling department, became a regular performer at [[USO]] bond rallies and other events to support the war effort. In the mid-1940s, Roy and Walt approved the Donald puppet and they decided to harness it for the 1944 re-release  of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. [[RKO Pictures|RKO]] and Disney were unsure how the film would do the second time around at the box office after its initial blockbuster run, so they did a promotional campaign with Disney characters including Nash performing with the Donald puppet. During the promotional period of ''[[Fun and Fancy Free]]'', he did multiple radio appearances from May to September 1947, with one of those appearances starring Disney himself. He voiced Donald for 1950s TV commercials.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|last=Kaufman|first=J.B.|title=Promoting 'Fun and Fancy Free'|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/promoting-fun-and-fancy-free/|website=[[Jerry Beck|Cartoon Research]]|access-date=September 1, 2020|date=August 31, 2020}}</ref>

Nash's Donald Duck voice was achieved by what is called [[buccal speech]]: an [[Alaryngeal speech|alaryngeal]] form of [[Speech production|vocalization]] which uses the inner cheek to produce sound rather than the [[larynx]].<ref name="buccal">{{cite journal | last1=Weinberg | first1=Bernd | last2=Westerhouse | first2=Jan | title=A Study of Buccal Speech | journal=Journal of Speech and Hearing Research | publisher=American Speech Language Hearing Association | volume=14 | issue=3 | year=1971 | issn=0022-4685 | doi=10.1044/jshr.1403.652 | pages=652–658| pmid=5163900 }} also published as {{cite journal | last1=Weinberg | first1=B. | last2=Westerhouse | first2=J. | title=A Study of Buccal Speech | journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | publisher=Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | volume=51 | issue=1A | year=1972 | issn=0001-4966 | doi=10.1121/1.1981697 | pages=652–8| pmid=5163900 | bibcode=1972ASAJ...51Q..91W | doi-access=free }}</ref> He first discovered it while trying to mimic his pet goat Mary. In his days before Disney, Nash performed in [[vaudeville]] shows where he often spoke in a "nervous baby goat" voice.<ref>{{cite book|last=Blitz |first=Marcia |title=Donald Duck |year=1979 |publisher=[[Harmony Books]]|isbn=978-0-517-52961-4 |page=19}}</ref>

Donald Duck became one of the world's most famous cartoon characters, in great part due to Nash's voice.{{cn|date=November 2022}} The voice is distinctive both for its ducklike quality and the fact that it is often very difficult for anybody to understand, especially when Donald flew into a rage (which happened fairly often). To keep Donald's voice consistent throughout the world, Nash voiced the character in all foreign languages the Disney shorts were translated to (with the aid of the [[Phonetic transcription|phonetic alphabet]]), meaning Donald retained his same level of incoherency all across the globe.{{clear left}}