[78-L] Paul Frees was Josephine?!

[David Lennick]

And that was the source of my original question. I found it by accident while 
looking to see who played one of the Society Syncopators (turned out it was 
Joan Davis's daughter).

dl

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> IMDB shows Paul Frees to be the uncredited voice of Josephine.
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> Cary Ginell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:57 am
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Paul Frees was Josephine?!
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> In the "making of" documentary on the recent "Some Like It Hot" DVD, Tony Curtis 
> says that "a very fine voice actor" was brought in because he couldn't keep his 
> voice 'up' consistently for the Josephine voice, and that the final result was a 
> combination of the two. Other sources claim that the Josephine voice was 
> entirely Paul Frees.
> 
> Randy
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> --- On Thu, 1/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: [78-L] Paul Frees was Josephine?!
>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 10:37 AM
>> Curious item in the IMDB credits for "Some Like it
>> Hot". I know Paul Frees was 
>> the funeral director Mozzarella (can't mistake that
>> voice since it's Boris 
>> Badenov) but he's also listed as dubbing the voice of
>> "Josephine". Anyone know 
>> if he just filled in certain parts or if he actually dubbed
>> the entire feminine 
>> voice for Tony Curtis?
>>
>> dl
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