I am watching this on DVD after not having seen it for decades.
My brother was a massive Barbra fan and I am sure he would have known
but he moved on to another plane of existence many years ago.
Who provides the singing voice for Irene Malloy?
It sounds like Charmaine Carr (Leisl from the movie The Sound Of Music.)
I hear the same voice in other musical numbers as well (Sunday Clothes.)
In the souvernir program for HELLO, DOLLY!, Marianne McAndrew's bio talks about her song-and-dance training (after which she was tested and signed for the film) and her six-month tour in HALF A SIXPENCE. I could be wrong, but I've always gotten the impression Ms. McAndrew did her own singing as Irene Malloy.
shareMarianne McAndrew may have had song-and-dance training, but she did NOT do her own singing in "Hello, Dolly!" I actually met Miss McAndrew in the 1980's when she was appearing in a play in a small theatre in Los Angeles. I personally asked her if she did her own singing and she said no, she was dubbed. I did not ask her who did the vocals. A friend of mine, who's fairly knowledgable, said it was the same vocalist who dubbed Samantha Eggar in "Doctor Dolittle" a few years earlier (also from 20th-Century-Fox).
share<<the same vocalist who dubbed Samantha Eggar in "Doctor Dolittle" a few years earlier>>
That would be Diana Lee (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0995242/), who also sang for Liv Ullmann in Lost Horizon.
"She is strong as a cow, and just as amiable."
I hope Ms. Lee received credit for her vocal work on the soundtrack CD; her name is absent from most listings (including IMDb's HELLO, DOLLY! page).
shareActually, I am surprised to learn that these dubbing jobs were performed by the same singer. I think she sounds terrific for Samantha Eggar, bland but not too objectionable for Liv Ullmann, and quite awful as Irene Molloy.
"She is strong as a cow, and just as amiable."
Unfortunately, the soundtrack CD of "Hello Dolly" iists no individual singers. And I'm not positive that Diana Lee sang for Marianne McAndrew. If you look at Diana Lee's biography on IMDB, she is credited as singing for Samantha Eggar and Liv Ullman, but not Miss McAndrew. That is what a friend of mine said.
shareWell, whoever provided the vocals for Irene Malloy, it would be nice to see this person receive credit for her contribution. It seems a shame we have more information about the various individuals who made screen tests for HELLO, DOLLY! than the names of those who actually worked on the film. It's especially unfortunate when similiar information (regarding vocal dubbing) has been made available for other 60s movie musicals, like THE SOUND OF MUSIC, WEST SIDE STORY and FLOWER DRUM SONG.
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I don't think it was the same singer who dubbed Liv Ullman. Wasn't the singer who dubbed Ullman the same snger who recorded the song from Disney's The Rescuers?
<<the same snger who recorded the song from Disney's The Rescuers?>>
Are you thinking of Shelby Flint?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0282419/
"It is I! It is me! It is Carla Göteborg!"
Hmmm..now that you mention it Irene Malloy's singing voice did sound a lot like Emma Fairfax's singing voice.
shareMaybe Emma Fairfax after she has inhaled some helium....
"While putting my pants on, I yodel a chanson."
I hadn't known that McAndrew was dubbed until I saw this post awhile back. With that in mind, I paid particular attention to "Ribbons Down My Back" when I caught part of the film on TV this evening - it gave all appearances of having been dubbed, and I thought the voice they used was actually pitched a little too high and thin to be a good match for McAndrew (who was perfectly lovely, by the way).
"I don't use a pen: I write with a goose quill dipped in venom!"---W. Lydecker
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I remember reading two vocalists were used for Irene's singing voice - alas all I can remember is that one of them had the first name Melissa.
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sing for Marianne McAndrew - though there is no known documentation on who sang what songs. I believe Melissa Stafford once said in an interview that she sang the solo numbers while Gail Maiken did the ensemble numbers
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From the first note, I knew that the beautifully deep voice that was speaking the part was definitely not doing that high, thin singing. I can't imagine how the choice was made to use that particular voice.
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You mean she couldn't even sing? They passed up Ann Margret for some this non-entity and she had to be dubbed????
Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it!