Fun with film and audio!
Debbie Reynolds own voice - Would You?
Irony of ironies - in a film that is all about dubbing actors, Debbie Reynolds herself was dubbed by Betty Noyes in this scene where she sings for Jean Hagen. I've restored Debbie's original vocal track.
Here's a trivia question: who dubbed Debbie Reynolds' voice when she was seen dubbing Jean Hagen's onscreen speaking voice in the film?
From Hugh Fordin's "The World of Entertainment!":
In several scenes Debbie Reynolds is lip-synching and rerecording Jean Hagen's speaking voice. "We used Jean Hagen dubbing Debbie dubbing Jean," director Stanley Donen explains. "Jean's voice is quite remarkable, and it was supposed to be cultured speech - and Debbie had that terrible western noise."
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Comment by John Kirk on July 8, 2009 at 4:31pm
- Well, Betty definitely had a better voice than Debbie's, but this number has always made me cringe when I see the movie, because the voice is SO obviously not the voice that's been singing throughout the rest of the movie. A lot of dubbing was (is) done by singers who sound nothing at all like the actors their subbing for, and this is one of the worst cases I can think of.
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Comment by andrewtarik on June 12, 2009 at 1:41pm
- Yeah, Debbie has a lovely, sweet voice for sure. But those final moments with Jean on set turning into the B&W film itself doesn't have the same impact with Debbie's voice. Ah the magic of movie making....
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Comment by John G.Gannatti on January 14, 2009 at 5:18pm - This is one of my favorite clips - I'm glad to see it again - Debbie had an Ok voice [albeit limited range] and it's understandable that they utilized Betty Noyes for some of these scenes.
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