Bliss reportedly died from natural causes at the Mesa Verde Residential Care Center in Costa Mesa on November 8, 2012.
Apart from Smurfette, Bliss also lent her voice to numerous television characters including the title character of the very first made-for-television cartoon, "Crusader Rabbit," and Ms. Bitters on the Nickelodeon animated series "Invader ZIM."
Bliss was also known for her work as a voice actor in feature films. Her first voice work was the role of the wicked stepsister Anastasia Tremaine in Walt Disney's classic 1950 feature film "Cinderella," for which, she was honored 50 years later by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award in March 2000.
From 1950 to 1957, Bliss was "Auntie Lou" on ABC/KRON-TV's "The Happy Birthday To You Show," also known as "Birthday Party Show," which had guests from adults, to children, to animals. At the same time, she did voices for Hanna-Barbera while they were working for MGM; as Tuffy in "Robin Hoodwinked," as Leprechaun in "Droopy Leprechaun" and later was Hugo on an episode of "The Flintstones."
She was also the narrator on three stories from the Disney Album "Peter Cottontail and Other Funny Bunnies;" those three stories being "Story of Thumper", "Story of the White Rabbit", and "Story of Grandpa Bunny." Bliss was a voice-over performer for Airborne radio spots in 2004.
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