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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 4, 2018 0:05:12 GMT
 With his singing coach  With Frank Loesser  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 4, 2018 0:14:38 GMT
Luck Be A Lady
I'll Know
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Post by outrider127 on Apr 4, 2018 0:36:52 GMT
Cringeworthy
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 4, 2018 1:03:13 GMT
Pretty brave to not go the "dub-me" route ! For a "non-singer" he does really well... imo anyway. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 4, 2018 3:56:23 GMT
"Although he worked very hard at the musical aspects, constantly working with voice coaches and choreographer Michael Kidd, Marlon Brando thought his voice sounded like "the mating call of a yak." He had to spend many hours in the sound studio recording his numbers over and over again. In the end, his songs were patched together from countless retakes for playback during shooting. Years later, he wrote in his autobiography, "They sewed my words together on one song so tightly that when I mouthed it in front of the camera, I nearly asphyxiated myself because I couldn't breathe while trying to synchronize my lips." This one is a bit more "iffy"  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 4, 2018 4:04:59 GMT
and he dances too
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Post by telegonus on Apr 4, 2018 6:44:48 GMT
Pretty brave to not go the "dub-me" route ! For a "non-singer" he does really well... imo anyway. I agree that MB was brave and not terrible, yet he had a show stopper song and he didn't knock it out of the park. Too bad. I don't blame him. They wanted movie stars for musicals back then, not singers. Even as late as 1964 they went for Audrey over Julie. There were always exceptions, and some bold moves, using Rex for My Fair Lady, Robert Preston for The Music Man. |
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 4, 2018 14:25:56 GMT
The first casting idea for MY FAIR LADY was to reunite Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn following the success of CHARADE. There was no way they were going to take a chance on such a project with a film unknown like that what's-her-name Andrews.
Cary's reaction to the offer -- not only would he not accept the role, but if Rex Harrison wasn't cast he would not even see the picture!
Julie did get her revenge, of course -- winning the Oscar in her film debut for MARY POPPINS while poor Audrey wasn't even nominated for one of the great actress parts. Not that she wasn't good (especially in the film's second half), but her singing was almost completely dubbed.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 4, 2018 15:49:07 GMT
"In the end, his songs were patched together from countless retakes for playback during shooting. Years later, he wrote in his autobiography, "They sewed my words together on one song so tightly that when I mouthed it in front of the camera, I nearly asphyxiated myself because I couldn't breathe while trying to synchronize my lips." For Brando's sake, it's only fair to mention that by the 1950s, when multi-track recording became common, it wasn't unusual even for performers with the musical bona fides of Judy Garland or Doris Day for final vocal tracks to be culled from bits and pieces of various takes. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 4, 2018 20:34:35 GMT
The first casting idea for MY FAIR LADY was to reunite Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn following the success of CHARADE. There was no way they were going to take a chance on such a project with a film unknown like that what's-her-name Andrews. Cary's reaction to the offer -- not only would he not accept the role, but if Rex Harrison wasn't cast he would not even see the picture! Pretty much the same thing had happened a couple of years earlier, when Jack Warner offered Grant The Music Man. Robert Preston ended up recreating his stage role, but TMM was a box office disappointment, especially overseas (always a difficult market for musicals). Warner was determined to have at least one box office name in the MFL cast, so when Grant was out of the picture (and James Cagney turned down the role of Doolittle to stay in retirement), he offered Henry Higgins to... Rock Hudson. An intriguing possibility, as it might have meant Julie Andrews would get to play Eliza, and who knows how that could have changed film history (would she have done Poppins? Sound of Music?). Hudson apparently would have done his own singing (he later toured onstage in I Do I Do and Camelot). As for the English accent, who knows... Supposedly Hudson was urged by his closest advisors to accept the role, but he still declined. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 4, 2018 20:45:54 GMT
Rock Hudson's singing:
This from his trivia :
Early in his career he had surgery on his vocal chords to make his voice deeper. The surgery had the side effect of making it impossible for Hudson to learn to sing. Therefore when he played King Arthur in "Camelot" he had to talk his way through the songs, just as Rex Harrison did in My Fair Lady (1964).
Rock made an album of Rod McKuen songs :
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Post by teleadm on Apr 5, 2018 17:18:43 GMT
Frank Sinatra later remade Guys and Dolls as a recording with the fictive Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre, released in 1964. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4739863-1373984660-4100.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 6, 2018 21:50:47 GMT
From the Guys and Dolls Trivia page : "For the publicity value alone, Samuel Goldwyn decided early on that Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons would sing their own vocals. Ironically, amid all the critical attention paid to Brando's singing debut, no one at the time or since has taken issue with Simmons' vocals, which, despite a game and spirited effort, are noticeably off-key the majority of the time. " "The tension between the two male leads, Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, started right off. Brando approached Sinatra, asking for help with musical numbers and suggesting they get together often and work on them. Sinatra told him he did not go for "that Method crap," and refused." "Shortly after signing to do the part of Nathan Detroit, Frank Sinatra realized Marlon Brando's role was the more substantial and romantic one, and he quickly let his jealousy show. According to Regis Toomey, "Sinatra was snotty and very difficult, as he really didn't want to do 'the role.' He can be very cruel and disagreeable. Joe [Mankiewicz] had an awfully hard time on that picture." " "Frank Sinatra wanted the lead role of Sky Masterson in this film, but Marlon Brando was cast instead. Likewise, Sinatra had previously wanted the part of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and later Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972), and Brando was ultimately cast in both those roles; he even won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for those parts." |
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