Editing Minnie Mouse (section)

{{short description|Disney cartoon character}} 
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{{Infobox character
| full_name = Minerva Mouse
| name = Minnie Mouse
| image = File: Minnie Mouse Duckipedia.png
| image_size = 160px
| first = ''[[Steamboat Willie]]''<!--Please do not change to "Plane Crazy" as the citations and the Walt Disney Company say that "Steamboat Willie" was Minnie's first appearance. "Plane Crazy" was only previewed once and not released as it failed to gain a distributor. Previews do not count as appearances.--> {{nowrap|(1928)}}
| creator = {{Plainlist|
* [[Walt Disney]]
* [[Ub Iwerks]]
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| designer = {{Plainlist|
* Walt Disney
* Ub Iwerks (original design)
* [[Fred Moore (animator)|Fred Moore]] (1930s redesign)
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| voice = {{Plainlist|
* Walt Disney (1928–1929)<ref name="CartoonVoices1">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=2022 |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=254–255}}</ref>
* Marjorie Ralston (1929)<ref name="CartoonVoices2">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=2022 |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=255}}</ref>
* [[Marcellite Garner]] (1930–1936, 1941)<ref name="CartoonVoices3">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=2022 |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages= 257–259; 261–268; 269; 272; 281}}</ref>
* Leone Ledoux (1936–1939; 1946–1950)<ref name="CartoonVoices4">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=2022 |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=272; 274–275; 278; 294–296; 298–300}}</ref>
* [[Thelma Boardman]] (1941–1942)<ref name="Radio">{{cite book |last1=Dunning |first1=John |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=458 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&q=%22Mickey+Mouse+Theater+of+the+Air%22&pg=PA458 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="CartoonVoices5">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=2022 |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=285}}</ref>
* [[Ruth Clifford]] (1944–1952)<ref name="CartoonVoices6">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=2022 |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=290; 300}}</ref>
* [[Janet Waldo]] (1974)<ref name="cartoonresearch.com">{{cite web|url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mickeys-christmas-carol/|title="Mickey's Christmas Carol" -|website=cartoonresearch.com|access-date=September 2, 2016|archive-date=April 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409030009/https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mickeys-christmas-carol/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Russi Taylor]] (1986–2019)<ref>{{cite web|title=Russi Taylor, Longtime Voice of Minnie Mouse, dead at 75|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-russi-taylor-minnie-mouse-the-simpsons-martin-prince-dead-75-20190728-kbfhzkmqffa4pj7anpr76scose-story.html|work=New York Daily News|date=July 28, 2019 |access-date=28 July 2019|archive-date=July 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728130300/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-russi-taylor-minnie-mouse-the-simpsons-martin-prince-dead-75-20190728-kbfhzkmqffa4pj7anpr76scose-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Kaitlyn Robrock]] (2019–present)<ref name="disney+">{{cite web|url=https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/documents/disney_wwomm_fact_sheet_as_of_10_8ec94ed8.pdf|title=The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse Fact Sheet|work=Disney+ Press|access-date=October 17, 2020|archive-date=January 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118210018/https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/documents/disney_wwomm_fact_sheet_as_of_10_8ec94ed8.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
| gender = Female
| family = [[Minnie Mouse family]]<br>[[Fifi the Peke|Fifi]] (dog)<br>[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Figaro]] (cat)<br>[[The Rescuers|Rufus]] (cat)
| significant_other = [[Mickey Mouse]]
| species = Mouse
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| franchise = ''[[Mickey Mouse universe|Mickey Mouse & Friends]]''
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}}'''Minerva''' "'''Minnie'''" '''Mouse'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gottfredson |first=Floyd |author-link=Floyd Gottfredson |title="Lost in lands long ago" |publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]] |isbn=9781606997826 |series=[[Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse]] |date=2014 |pages=214 |quote=Dadgummit, hurry, driver! We've been waiting twenty minutes! Drive us to the residence of Minerva Mouse immediately!}}</ref> is an American cartoon character created by [[the Walt Disney Company]]. The longtime sweetheart of [[Mickey Mouse]], she is an [[anthropomorphic]] [[mouse]] with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue (or pink or red) polka-dotted dress, white [[bloomers]] and yellow low-heeled shoes occasionally with ribbons on them. 

The comic strip story "Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers" (published September 22 – December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and her grandparents Marvel Mouse and Matilda Mouse. Her best-known relatives, however, remain her uncle Mortimer Mouse (Mortimer was almost the name of Mickey) and her twin nieces, Millie and Melody Mouse, though most often a single niece, Melody, appears. In many appearances, Minnie is presented as the girlfriend of Mickey Mouse, best friend of [[Daisy Duck]]<ref>[http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/2000/minnievisitsdaisy.html Minnie Visits Daisy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224023232/http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/2000/minnievisitsdaisy.html |date=2008-02-24 }}. ''[http://disneyshorts.org/index.html The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts]'' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080323093225/http://www.disneyshorts.org/index.html |date=2008-03-23 }}. Retrieved on March 17, 2008.</ref> and a friend to [[Clarabelle Cow]].

In honor of her 90th anniversary, on January 22, 2018, she joined the ranks of other animated celebrities by receiving her own star on the [[List of fictional characters with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame|Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Minnie Mouse honored with Hollywood Walk of Fame star|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/minnie-mouse-honored-hollywood-walk-fame-star/story?id=52530237|website=ABC News|access-date=22 January 2018|archive-date=October 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006094920/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/minnie-mouse-honored-hollywood-walk-fame-star/story?id=52530237|url-status=live}}</ref> She was the sixth Disney character to receive this honor. Mickey Mouse, [[Donald Duck]], [[Winnie the Pooh (Disney character)|Winnie the Pooh]], [[Tinker Bell (Disney character)|Tinker Bell]] and [[Snow White (Disney character)|Snow White]] have already received this distinction.

As of January 1, 2024, Minnie Mouse as depicted in her first shorts entered the [[public domain]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/ |title=Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle |last1=Jenkins |first1=Jennifer |last2=Boyle |first2=James |publisher=Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain}}</ref>