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jean simmons sounds like audrey hepburn

posted 15 years ago by louster6
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i just watched this for the first time today and i couldnt stop thinking about
how much she sounded like audrey hepburn--esp. in my fair lady.

[–] kathleencurley1 15 years ago

I have also just watched it for the first time and thought that Jean Simmons sounded like Audrey Hepburn, but in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" or "Funny Face", where you hear her real voice, not "My Fair Lady", which was dubbed by Marni Nixon (I think)

[–] beekothefreako 15 years ago

I'm watching it now or the first time in about 12 years and I was just thinking the exact same thing. Glad I'm not the only one.

[–] pasnat 15 years ago

Yes,kathleen, it was Marni Nixon who dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady, just as she dubbed Deborah Kerr's in The King and I and Natalie Wood in West Side Story.

But in Guys and Dolls, Jean Simmons did her own signing... or so the story goes.

[–] aciolino 13 years ago

Not only does she sound like Audrey Hepburn but you're beginning to sound quite a bit like her, too.

[–] melnar1 10 years ago

Audrey Hepburn sounded nothing like Jean Simmons. Listen to Audrey singing (really singing for herself - not dubbed) on the soundtrack of Funny Face (1957) and Moon River from Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) [the soundtrack album - she doesn't sing on the Henry Mancini version].

Big difference.

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

maybe a little

so many movies, so little time

[–] deem_bastille 7 years ago

how dare you disgrace the name of Audrey Hepburn!!!

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.