![]() | A Song Is Born
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.07 Virginia Mayo shows Danny Kaye what jazz sounds like, thanks to the wonderful vocals of Jeri Sullivan.
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![]() | The Helen Morgan Story
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.78 Soprano Ann Blyth playing high-voiced torch singer Helen Morgan gets a vocal voice-over by Gogi Grant who has a fabulous, powerful pop voice but sounds nothing like Helen Morgan.
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![]() | Affair in Trinidad (Black & White)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.99 Jo Ann Greer was a perfect vocal match for Rita Hayworth throughout the 50s and this film is a prime example of her excellent work.
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![]() | One Touch of Venus
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.66 Ava Gardner plays Venus but the divine singing voice belongs to Eileen Wilson.
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![]() | Warner Bros. and the Homefront Collection (Irving Berlin's This Is the Army / Thank Your Lucky Stars / Hollywood Canteen)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $30.39 Warner Homefront Collection coming Nov. 11th:
This Is the Army (43)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (43)
Hollywood Canteen (44)
Joan Leslie's lovely vocals belong the aptly-named Sally Sweetland. Olivia de Havilland's vocals are dubbed by band vocalist Lynn Martin for her sone song.
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![]() | Errol Flynn Westerns Collection (Montana / Rocky Mountain / San Antonio / Virginia City)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $35.07 Alexis Smith's vocals were always dubbed in films. You are hearing Bobbie Canvin in San Antonio (45) and Bonnie Lou Williams in Montana (50)
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![]() | Blues in the Night
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.95 Betty Fields' singing (not her rehearsing scene though!) was dubbed by the prolific Trudy Erwin
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![]() | Tammy And The Bachelor / Tammy Tell Me True / Tammy And The Doctor (Triple Feature)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $10.94 Sandra Dee is dubbed singing the "Tammy" song in Tammy and the Doctor (63)
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![]() | Higher and Higher
Buy used from: $2.47 French actress Michèle Morgan is dubbed splendidly by the ever-reliable Martha Mears in this highly enjoyable musical.
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![]() | Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol. 3 (Hit the Deck/Deep in My Heart/Kismet/Nancy Goes to Rio/Two Weeks with Love/Broadway Melody of 1936/Broadway Melody of 1938/Born to Dance/Lady Be Good)
Buy new: $69.98 / Used from: $53.31 Tap-dancing queen Eleanor Powell is dubbed by Marjorie Lane for all her vocals in the films from this collection. Carol Richards sings for Cyd Charisse once more in DEEP IN MY HEART, that's Betty Wand chirping for Tamara Toumanova in the same film. Russ Tamblyn's vocals are looped in HIT THE DECK, ditto Ricardo Montalban's in TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE
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![]() | With a Song in My Heart - The Jane Froman Story
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $12.99 Susan Hayward gives one of her most masterful performances ever and the real Jane Froman, whom she portrays so brilliantly, provides the vocals.
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![]() | The Girl Next Door
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.90 The lovely June Haver stars in the sprightly musical - her vocals, in this, her last film, are provided by recording artist Beryl Davis.
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![]() | Words and Music
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $8.68 In this musical tribute to Rodgers and Hart, we have many great singing stars doing some of their finest work on screen. And we also have non-singers who sound just as good : Tom Drake as Rodgers is dubbed by the prolific Bill Lee, Cyd Charisse receives the Eileen Wilson treatment in her duet with the equally dubbed blonde dancer Dee Turnell. And yes, the Blackburn Twins are dubbed too.
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![]() | Du Barry Was a Lady
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.00 Lucille Ball sings herself in the "Friendship" finale, but her opening song is dubbed by the ever-reliable Martha Mears
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![]() | The West Point Story
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.99 Once more, Virginia Mayo's vocals are dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams in this star-studded WB musical.
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![]() | Illegal / The Big Steal (Film Noir Double Feature)
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $9.15 Jayne Mansfield's vocals are dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams in ILLEGAL (55)
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![]() | Royal Wedding / The Belle of New York
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $7.10 Vera-Ellen as The Belle of New York (52) sings beautifully to the prerecorded voice of Anita Ellis. Keenan Wynn's solo in Royal Wedding is also dubbed.
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![]() | They Live by Night / Side Street (Film Noir Double Feature)
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $6.58 Jean Hagen is dubbed for her vocals in SIDE STREET (50), please discard all rumors that she ever sang for herself in any film!
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![]() | Classic Western Round-Up, Vol. 2 (The Texans / California / The Cimarron Kid / The Man from the Alamo)
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $10.83 In CALIFORNIA (46), Barbara Stanywyck's impressive vocal turns are the work of Kay St.Germaine
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![]() | TCM Spotlight - Esther Williams, Vol. 1 (Bathing Beauty / Easy to Wed / On an Island with You / Neptune's Daughter / Dangerous When Wet)
Buy new: $20.29 / Used from: $39.91 In Easy To Wed, Lucille Ball sings beautifully with the voice of Virginia Rees and In an Island with You, Ricardo Montalban solos superbly, his vocals dubbed by Leo Rojo.
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![]() | The Great Race
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $11.00 Natalie Wood introduces the nominated song "The Sweetheart Tree" with the vocal skills of Jackie Ward.
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![]() | Don't Bother to Knock
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.80 Anne Bancroft's nightclub singer is easy on the ears thanks to many renditions of classic songs performed by Eve Marlee.
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![]() | The Big Street
Buy used from: $4.48 Lucy's dramatic turn as a nightclub chanteuse is greatly helped by Martha Mears's smooth singing voice.
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![]() | Imitation of Life
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.99 Susan Kohner's sole musical turn is the work of Jo Ann Greer who also sang for Rita Hayworth (and several others) in the 50s.
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![]() | The Paleface
Buy used from: $19.97 When brassy saloon singer Iris Adrian tells Bob Hope to "Meet Me Round the Corner", she is mouthing to the voice of Annette Warren, who later sang for Ava Gardner in Show Boat.
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![]() | The Bela Lugosi Collection (Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven / The Invisible Ray / Black Friday)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $10.99 In Black Friday, starlet Anne Nagel borrows the smooth voice of future musical film star Constance Moore.
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![]() | The Jolson Story
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.88 We all know Jolson sang for Larry Parks, but everyone else is also dubbed-over in this film.
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![]() | The Great Ziegfeld
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.81 As strange as it may seem, young singer Dennis Morgan (billed as Stanley Morner)was the bit player hired to lip-sync to Alan Jones' pre-recording of "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" in this opulent Oscar-winning concoction.
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![]() | It's Always Fair Weather
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.94 What little Cyd Charisse has to sing in her "Baby, You Knock Me Out" dance number is dubbed by her regular voice double at the time, Carol Richards, who can also be heard to great advantage on the out-take musical number "Love Is a Racket". Michael Kidd is also given an excellent voice-over.
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![]() | John Wayne 2 Pack (The Man from Utah / The Star Packer / Sagebrush Trail / Riders of Destiny)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.40 For his singing roles in Riders of Destiny and Man from Utah, John Wayne looks profoundly embarrassed mouthing to the voice of Bill Bradbury.
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![]() | The Caine Mutiny (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $8.98 When May Wynn, as a club singer, performs her one song, she does so with the smooth alto of Jo Ann Greer.
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![]() | The Original Nancy Drew Movie Mystery Collection (Detective / Reporter / Troubleshooter / Hidden Staircase)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $12.94 At the end of NANCY DREW, REPORTER, Bonita Granville and her siblings engage in a nursery rhyme medley, the younger children do their own singing, but Bonita is dubbed.
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![]() | Fox Horror Classics Collection (The Lodger / Hangover Square / The Undying Monster)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $20.31 Watch out for two dubbed heroines in this upcoming collection:
Linda Darnell in HANGOVER SQUARE (45) and Merle Oberon in THE LODGER (44)
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![]() | Pot O' Gold
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.69 Paulette Goddard's standout vocals are supplied by Vera Van, a frequent dubber of this period.
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![]() | Bob Hope MGM Movie Legends Collection (Alias Jesse James/Boy, Did I Get the Wrong Number/The Facts of Life/I'll Take Sweden/The Princess and the Pirate/The Road to Hong Kong/They've Got Me Covered)
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $23.55 In the Princess and the Pirate, Virginia Mayo's singing was dubbed for the first time and it's Louanne Hogan (who sang for Jeanne Crain in several Fox musicals) doing a remarkable job of it. In They Got Me Covered, the unmemorable song chirped by blonde Marion Martin is dubbed by the ever-prolific Martha Mears.
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