Singin' in the Rain
1952
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- In the scenes where Kathy (Debbie Reynolds) is seen over-dubbing Lena Lamont (Jean Hagen), it is actually Hagen’s voice we hear. She provided her own track for both talking and singing and Reynolds is actually miming to that.
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Nov 14, 2003 · But the voice that is used to replace Hagen’s shrill, piercing one is not Reynolds’ but Hagen’s own quite lovely natural voice—meaning that Jean Hagen dubs Debbie Reynolds’ dubbing Jean Hagen! To further confuse matters, the voice we hear as Hagen mimes 'Would You?', supposedly supplied by Reynolds, is that of yet a third girl ...
Aug 9, 2012 · The plot of Singin' in the Rain hinges on Debbie Reynolds dubbing Jean Hagen's squeaky voice for a new sound movie. But in that movie's spoken dialogue, it's actually the lovely voice of...
In several scenes the Debbie Reynolds’ character is supposedly lip–synching and rerecording Jean Hagen’s speaking–voice. In actuality, Jean Hagen’s real voice was much more cultured than Debbie’s voice, so Jean dubbed Debbie dubbing Jean’s character.
- Lennie Hayton
- Arthur Freed (lyrics)Nacio Herb Brown (music)
- Gene Kelly
- Adolph Green & Betty Comden
- Stanley Donen, who co-directed the movie with Kelly (and who will turn 88 on April 13), has said the initial story idea was developed for a movie to be called "Excess Baggage" that would have starred Ann Miller.
- Only two original songs were composed for the film: "Make 'Em Laugh" and "Moses."
- Otherwise, the movie was an excuse for Arthur Freed, the producer who headed the famed "Freed Unit" that made so many of the classic MGM musicals, to recycle songs that he'd written as a lyricist with composer Nacio Herb Brown two decades earlier for some of the studio's earliest musicals.
- The title song originally appeared in "The Hollywood Revue of 1929," performed by Ukulele Ike (a.k.a. Cliff Edwards). It would be sung in four more movies, including by William Bendix in "The Babe Ruth Story," before Freed had Comden and Green build a movie around it.
In addition, although the film revolves around the idea that Kathy has to dub for Lina's piercing voice, in the scene where Kathy is portrayed recording a line of Lina's dialogues during the movie “The Dancing Cavalier”, Jean Hagen's normal voice is used, because Hagen's deep, rich voice was preferred over Reynolds' somewhat thin and ...
That is, not without Debbie Reynolds's help, albeit ironically the voice she gets dubbed with is in real life her own voice and not Debbie Reynolds'. Shared an apartment with Patricia Neal in New York City while working on Broadway.
Dec 29, 2016 · Reynolds was determined that Los Angeles should have a proper film museum, and she used her own modest fortune to acquire Jean Hagen’s green gown from “Singin’ in the Rain,” the iconic ...
