[78-L] Paul Frees was Josephine?!

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Jan 1 13:07:34 PST 2009


Michael Biel wrote:
> 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

Other way around..Joan died of a heart attack two years earlier and the 
daughter (Beverly Wills), her grandmother and two kids died in the fire. Very 
sad..I'd always wondered who played Dolores ("So the one legged jockey says..").

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/fullcredits
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932617/bio

dl
> 
>> 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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