AdrianTurner
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Originally Posted by AdrianTurner
So Kerr was dubbed too. I only saw Tozzi getting a mention in the screen credits, did I miss Kerr's. Bloody Mary wasn't dubbed, was she? I thought she did the role on Broadway.Originally Posted by GMpasqua
Doris Day and Elizabeth Talyor were both in the running for Nellie. I guess many feel Gaynor was a "B" actress compared to them.
Fernado Lamas was offered the role of Emile but the producers of his Broadway show would not release him from his contract so he was unavailable when filming started (He would have used his own voice though)
Taylor would have been wonderful except she would have been dubbed (then the entire cast would have been dubbed)
Gaynor is the only one who does her own singing
Originally Posted by Johnny Angell
So Kerr was dubbed too. I only saw Tozzi getting a mention in the screen credits, did I miss Kerr's. Bloody Mary wasn't dubbed, was she? I thought she did the role on Broadway.
Originally Posted by Johnny Angell
So Kerr was dubbed too. I only saw Tozzi getting a mention in the screen credits, did I miss Kerr's. Bloody Mary wasn't dubbed, was she? I thought she did the role on Broadway.
Originally Posted by Cinescott
The only cast member not to be dubbed was Mitzi Gaynor.
Originally Posted by MatthewA
Ray Walston also did his own singing, what little he did to begin with.
Originally Posted by Cinescott /forum/thread/311623/is-south-pacific-a-good-transfer/30#post_3817290
Any reason why only Tozzi received credit for his singing?Originally Posted by ahollis
Rogers and Hammerstein thought that Ms Hall's voice had deteriorated to the point that she needed to be dubbed. However her own voice can be heard in THE FLOWER DRUM SONG.
Originally Posted by MatthewA
Ray Walston also did his own singing, what little he did to begin with.
Originally Posted by Cinescott
I would surmise that producers generally would not want to give voice doubles credit since they would like nothing better than to maintain the illusion that it is indeed the actors singing and being recorded on the spot.
Originally Posted by MattH.
No question about it. That's why around the mid-1950s, soundtrack albums for musicals stopped crediting the names of the singers and instead listed the names of the characters who were doing the singing. MGM certainly credited the voice doubles for Cyd Charisse (Carol Richards) and Vera-Ellen (Anita Ellis) on soundtrack albums for Brigadoon and Three Little Words, for example, but by the time of The King and I, the curtain was lowered over the identities of the vocalists.