Was that actually Susan Hayward's singing voice?
Did she really sing or was she dubbed?
shareShe was dubbed by the real Jane Froman.
shareBefore learning the songs were sung by Jane Froman, I thought it was Susan singing - I think that's probably how she might sound (but, of course, I could be wrong).
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Susan Hayward actually had a wonderful singing voice. She sings for herself in another musical biopic I'LL CRY TOMORROW, the story of singer Lillian Roth. Jane Froman undoubtably dubbed for her because Jane was still an enormously popular singer in the early 1950's and movie musical biopics usually use the original person's voice if it's an iconic singing star as in the Al Jolson, Patsy Cline, and Tina Turner movies. A rare exception was Sissy Spacek singing for herself in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER instead of Loretta Lynn. Susan really wanted to sing for herself and when she got ICT part of her demand was to do the singing. Lillian Roth was fairly forgotten by this time so the studio agreed.
shareIf I recall, Lillian Roth expected to do Hayward's singing in ICM, but the film's musical director felt Hayward's voice was good enough and recommended that she do her own singing - Roth said she actually had to adjust her performing style because audiences were expecting Hayward's! Hayward was later dubbed by Margaret Whiting in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, but not long after that did her own singing in the Las Vegas production of MAME.
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Jane Froman's singing voice is quite unusual to me, or maybe I've exposed myself to singers from another type of music, which can't really be true.
It sounds like she's not opening her whole mouth to sing. I found it very distracting, but by the end of the movie I got used to it and liked it.
Did anyone else feel the same?
It's definitely more of a old style singing.