Dubbing Through the Decades, Part 2 

Judy Garland as a trilling soprano! ROFL

And Olivia de Haviland...extremely obvious, to listeners in our time. Through the times of these films, the public was practically brainwashed into believing in these celebrities as super-talented and capable of everything. People adored these stars, and so would never have believed that their voices were dubbed, even if the real singers had been given credit. I was not surprised to see Judy Garland in this line-up of dubbed stars. Her stardom was carefully manufactured by producers, directors, and managers. I've suspected some dubbing of her voice for her films. This is easy enough to detect, because for her live stage performances she was just yelling. All of the beautifully rounded legato of her film roles is missing. The level of musicality was so much less. I personally would prefer to hear John Wayne's own singing voice. Good or bad, his own voice would have fit with his toughened cowboy character. Thank you for your comment.

@@ceceliaclarke9147 Judy's dubbed part seemed like it was some daydream or sth obvious though

@@ceceliaclarke9147the reason she sounded like that later in life is because alcohol and drugs that heavily affects your voice

She played Peter Pan on stage and eventually on TV, right?

Yes, and had a huge Broadway career.

I always find it amusing to see kids' reactions to the voices of Verna Felton and Sebastian Cabot during the pre-show for both Tiki rooms at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom, respectively.

The song had already been pre-recorded, so he had no choice.

@@lostvocals8 Thanks for the info.

You are right Stephen and that is why musicals are so miserable today. Musicals need REAL singers not actors whose egos make them think that they have good voices.!

It's a disgrace that Ava Gardner's vocals weren't used in Showboat. Her version carried much more emotion than the dubbed version.

Nice try at denigrating my work, but: Fail. Dubbing was the best-kept secret in Hollywood, and remains so to this day. Deborah Kerr did go against studio policy to say that Marni added some notes (in reality she sang every note), but no one knew about her dubbing Natalie Wood in WSS. All the other stars we discussed - Debbie Reynolds, Juanita Hall, Leslie Caron, Rosalind Russell, etc. - were major secrets and to this day people write me saying they are shocked they were dubbed. I've never heard anyone claim Ann Miller was dubbed, and Brando said he wouldn't play the role if he was dubbed. Jean Simmons followed suit. Finally, as we discussed in the show, many good singers have been dubbed - did you actually watch it?

@@lostvocals8 In the case of Yvonne De Carlo I believe I read that the studio thought her voice was a little too low and not the pretty soprano voice that was the standard for those times. Here she is singing "I'll Follow You" in the 1953 movie, "Fort Algiers". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Iww3pk0jPko.html She also recorded several albums. Thank you for your amazing work. It must be difficult work to compile all these movies. By the way, that was probably Mary Astor actually playing the piano. She was an accomplished piano player.

@@Michael25063 And she sang in Follies! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FBt6aiv4GOc.html The piano was prerecorded along with the vocals, so I doubt they brought Mary in to record that. But she probably was playing correctly on set even though we can't hear it.

Angela Lansbury was dubbed multiple times!

And these are only a small fraction of all those who were dubbed!

There are literally hundreds of others - I had to stop somewhere!

@@lostvocals8 can you please do a part 3 please

@@matthewarroyo3118 Maybe - but they're so much work!!

@@lostvocals8 ok thank you for your honesty

That was the weirdest dubbing of all. Ann Blythe's voice was much closer to Helen Morgan's voice, but Gogi Grant was popular at that time and the album from the film was a best seller.

Not into Star Wars, but I have thought of doing a dialogue dubbing compilation - so many examples! Send me a list of all those you know...

Hard to believe they had to dub 6 of the 7 brides!

Barbara did sing for herself here. She was dubbed in "Higher and Higher", though.

Shirley was unavailable when this line was needed.

Judy's dubbing was a joke. For the story on Debbie, watch my show "Hollywood's Secrets Exposed!"

Every song was carefully checked. Which ones don't you believe?

So all you have to do to get Julie Andrews to dub is marry her... ;)

An unfortunately widespread myth, started by a lazy author. Trudy Stevens was definitely the dubber. Rosemary specifically asked for her.

Weren't Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye also dubbed by Rosemary Clooney and Trudy Stevens for one number?

@@WillCamx Not dubbed - lip syncing to their record.

The Garland dub was a joke, of course...

Time to start watching!

Just about.

The one in Cabernet. The only role was to have the boy sing, so why not pick a young blonde boy who could sing? The boy didn’t need to sign perfectly as his role was just get the crowd involved.

Ah - the mistake came from this list: www.janettedavis.net/Dubbers/dubberslist.php

Yep.

Wasnt Verdon a broadway star and her voice wasnt used??!!!! WHA...And Tony Martin was a star singer in the 1950's right (who was married to Cyd Charrisse).

@@sandrasanders706 The credit of Tony in the movie is Baritone singer

For Gwen, I bet her voice was more Broadway than Hollywood. So they dubbed her. Like Angela Lansbury, Hollywood don’t want her voice but Broadway did!

@@MichaelChong100 Gwen did the film version of DAMN YANKEES that she had done on Broadway and I still bet you're right.

If I included everyone, the clip would be ten hours long!

Natalie Wood must be a close second. She was always being called on to sing, and dubbed every time - except in Gypsy where the point was that Louise/Gypsy had no real talent.

Yep.

If you can ever find a track of him singing this song, I'd love to synch it to the film!

I do ,Jeremy had quite a vibrato.

@@davidallen508 You have a recording of him singing On The Street Where You Live??

Actually, 99% of all musical numbers are pre-recorded. So they could have recorded the songs weeks before, while not in costume.

@@lostvocals8 ha ha. Sorry, sarcasm

@@buslady3705 Ah - hard to make sarcasm read in text!

In the dustbin of history, where they should be.

@@lostvocals8 I demand a part 3 dedicated to them.

@@en6278 I’ll be your first viewer when you make it!

What donkey?

@@lostvocals8 Midsummer Nights Dream at 1:13