[78-L] Joan Davis and family

[Taylor Bowie]

The house fire was a couple years after Joan Davis herself died.  Joan's 
daughter,  Beverly Wills,  died in the fire along with her two young 
children and her grandmother.

Although I recall the death of Joan Davis very clearly (our family were huge 
fans of her TV show with Jim Backus) I had not remembered about the terrible 
death of her daughter and the others until I looked at the listing on IMDB.

Taylor B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Paul Frees was Josephine?!


> David Lennick wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Did that daughter survive the fire that killed Joan Davis:?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>> soundthink at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> IMDB shows Paul Frees to be the uncredited voice of Josephine.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:57 am
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Paul Frees was Josephine?!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Thu, 1/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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