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Jean Arless did her own voice for Warren!!!


I am having fun reading all the comments and when I first saw this movie...I thought that they dubbed Warren's voice, but no, Castle hired Jean Arless(Joan Marshall) because she could do a man's voice! Amazing....amazing. I think the teeth retainer she wore for Warren made it look like it was dubbed. Who can do a man's voice? Very few women...so everyone expects it to be dubbed. So I thought that I would post this.

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I thought it was dubbed! wow.
im watching it now.

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i saw this a few years ago + watching it again now. i never thought it to be dubbed. i always marveled at how good the voice was. i have a friend who can do that. she has a really high girly voice but when we were teens, she would call the school acting like a dad when we were ditching! anyway, reading these posts now is funny cause i wasnt aware that anyone thought it was a dubbed voice. now i'll look more closely at the lips.

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I always think of solvang when I watch this.
I was there a few years ago.

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I am having fun reading all the comments and when I first saw this movie...I thought that they dubbed Warren's voice, but no, Castle hired Jean Arless(Joan Marshall) because she could do a man's voice! Amazing....amazing. I think the teeth retainer she wore for Warren made it look like it was dubbed. Who can do a man's voice? Very few women...so everyone expects it to be dubbed. So I thought that I would post this.


I'm going to have to call BS,OP, unless you can provide proof.
If she could do a man's voice, why have so many rear shot of her/Warren?
No...unless you can provide an article stating that Jean Arless (Joan Marshall) did the voices, I'd be more inclined to believe the numerous sources saying the voice was dubbed.

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The Triva section says the voice was dubbed...? But, with the teeth prostetic and all, it was quite realistic.

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I agree.

Also I'm 90% sure she was dubbed by actor William Duell. He played Sefelt in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and when I first heard his voice in that film I was immediately thinking, "That's gotta be the guy who dubbed that girl in 'Homicidal'."

The voice was cunningly similar.

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I am 100% certain that this is BS. William Castle is still snowing people more than three decades after his death. Even if it weren't completely obvious that it's 1) a man's voice, and 2) NOT Jean Arless's voice, the deadest giveaway of all is that whoever looped the voice is not nearly as strong an actor as Jean Arless. Compare the deliveries of Warren and Emily. Not even in the same ballpark. I guarantee you, this horsesh-t about it being her real voice was just another bit of showmanship by Mr. Showmanship. And more power to him.


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I could never do a man's voice - before I looked up the movie on IMDB I actually saw it (DVD) and was so surprised Arless(Marshall) did Warren's role - she was incredibly convincing as a man. Not too many female actresses can do that.

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Whoever said it, it's one of the most chilling lines of any movie, "I am Warren!" brrrr! For me, it's only second to John McIntire's line in Psycho, "Well if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates, who's that woman buried out in Green Lawn Cemetary?"
I first watched them on TV when I was young, but even after many viewings throughout the years, they still have the same effect.

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Whoever said it, it's one of the most chilling lines of any movie, "I am Warren!" brrrr! For me, it's only second to John McIntire's line in Psycho, "Well if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates, who's that woman buried out in Green Lawn Cemetary?"
I first watched them on TV when I was young, but even after many viewings throughout the years, they still have the same effect.

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In order to carry off the deception, all of Warren's dialog was actually dubbed in by an (uncredited) male actor.
Obviously it was a dubbed in voice.
That would be funny if it were true though.

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Watching it now and I don't think so. And in the trivia section it says an uncredited male did the voice. What's your source?

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I saw the film for the first time yesterday and after watching two scenes with "Warren," I thought Gee, why'd they have to dub the guy's voice? I kept getting distracted because I was trying to recognize the voice. Of course, that was a cheat, but Castle wasn't above that sort of thing.

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