[78-L] Every Little Breeze...

[Harold Aherne]

There was actually nothing at all wrong with Louise Brooks's voice--the story I've heard
is that "The Canary Murder Case" was filmed silent before Paramount made the decision
to release it as a part-talkie. Brooks was already in Europe filming "Pandora's Box" and
refused to return in order to dub her scenes and/or reshoot them, so Margaret Livingston
did the honours...the very same Margaret Livingston who played the Woman from the City
in "Sunrise" and who became Mrs. Paul Whiteman in 1931.
 
There were a couple of deaf character actors who could no longer work in talkies, but
there was only one major star whose voice was literally defective--Raymond Griffith. His 
voice had been reduced to a whisper from a childhood illness, and in one of his few talkie
roles his character is said to have a cold, or something along those lines. But he continued
to have a very successful job as a producer for 20th Century and 20th Century-Fox, 
overseeing such pictures as "Broadway Through a Keyhole", "Folies Bergere", and
several vehicles with Shirley Temple, Tyrone Power, and Sonja Henie. 
 
-Harold


--- On Fri, 3/20/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
Subject: [78-L] Every Little Breeze...
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 2:40 AM

Hey Mike.  One of the early Louise Brooks sounds movies actually has her 
voice dubbed by some other actress...might be The Canary Murder Case.

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Harkin" <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Fwd: Kitty O'Connor [fwd]


>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Fwd: Kitty O'Connor
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 9:11 PM
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> > You want to see someone who gives you the creeps, look
>> at any picture of
>> > Victor
>> > Young. He looks as if he's about to get the chair and
>> still ain't gonna
>> > talk.
>> >
>> Keep in mind that in the days when music came to its
>> listeners on radio or
>> on
>> record...what an artist looked like was not as important as
>> what
>> he/she/it/they
>> SOUNDED like! Thus, ladies like Kate Smith...whose figure
>> was hardly
>> "sylph-like"...could reach stardom...?!
>>
>> ...stevenc
>
> Likewise, when TV came in and radio series began to be done thereon, 
> somehow the actors never looked like you imagined them on radio.
>
> Likewise, again, silent movies to sound:  you could be a deaf mute, and 
> none the wiser, or have a voice like a cement mixer, no problem - but once

> sound came in, how you sounded was as important as how you looked. 
> [Though the one sound film of Louise Brooks I've seen, I have to
wonder 
> why they thought her voice wasn't any good for film....]
>
> Mike in Plovdiv
>
>
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