While it is certainly possible that WB could have made a decision to dub all or some of her lines after filming was complete, it appears that they at least began shooting the film without later dubbing in mind. Rex Reed interviewed Catherine for the NY Times on set in New Orleans during the beginning days of the shoot, and he quoted her as saying:
"I was quite afraid to come here, because I don't want them to make me over into a Hollywood star. My character and temperament are too wild. You can't impose things on me. The most difficult thing is making intelligent answers. It is harder to think in English than to talk in English. It takes me three days to learn one line for the screen. In Italy, while you act everyone screams at you...It drives me mad. Here, the camera rolls and the sound track works at the same time. You don't have to dub it all later. In Italy, we work long hours, until people are fainting. Americans are less explosive, more reserved, but they put me at ease."
With that in mind, and after having watched most of Catherine's films (some with her voice and some clearly dubbed by others), I cannot clearly distinguish that it is NOT her voice in Hotel, so my presumption has been that, at least for the most part, she was not later dubbed by someone else.
Information about dubbing for Catherine's films is hard to come by. It would certainly be interesting to definitively know the answer to this question.
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