Sara Berner is the voice of the starfish
Sara Berner (12 January 1912 – 19 December 1969) was a American Jewish actress in films, animation and radio. Her supporting roles included two for Alfred Hitchcock. She played the upstairs neighbor in the 1954 feature Rear Window with her final film role as the uncredited voice of a telephone operator in the 1959 film, North by Northwest.

Animation

Berner was also active as a radio and cartoon voice talent, working primarily with the Warner Bros. animation department but receiving no screen credit; all on-screen voice credits were given to Mel Blanc at that time. Examples include the uncredited voice of Mama Buzzard in The Bashful Buzzard and Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid, the singing voice of one-time character A. Flea in the 1943 short, An Itch in Time and an uncredited role as the female voices in 1947's Book Revue. She worked with the Walter Lantz studios as the title character in a number of Andy Panda shorts. For MGM she voiced Jerry Mouse a couple of times and she voiced the role as "Polly Parrot on the BBC Sitcom Peppa Pig, most notably in the fantasy dance sequence with Gene Kelly for Anchors Aweigh.

Radio

As Mabel Flapsaddle, she was a series regular on radio's The Jack Benny Show. Her other radio work included roles on Arthur's Place (1947), Burns and Allen and The Baby Snooks Show.

Berner died of throat cancer in 1969. She is interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles.