““The vocal credits for Singin’ in the Rain are interesting, and rather confusing. In the film, Debbie Reynolds has been hired to re-dub [Jean Hagen]’s dialogue and songs in the latter’s first talking picture. We see the process being done in a shot of Reynolds, back to camera, matching her dialogue to Jean’s and synchronizing it while watching the sequence on film. But the voice that is used to replace Jean’s dialogue is not Reynolds’, but Jean’s own quite lovely natural voice. Director Stanley Donen explained, in Hugh Fordin’s The World of Entertainment: “We used Jean Hagen dubbing Debbie dubbing Jean. Jean’s voice is quite remarkable and it was supposed to be cultured speech, and Debbie had that terrible western noise.” To further confuse matters, the voice we hear as Jean sings “Would You?,” also supposedly supplied by Reynolds, is that of yet a third girl, unbilled studio singer Betty Noyes.””
![“The vocal credits for Singin’ in the Rain are interesting, and rather confusing. In the film, Debbie Reynolds has been hired to re-dub [Jean Hagen]’s dialogue and songs in the latter’s first talking picture. We see the process being done in a shot of Reynolds, back to camera, matching her dialogue…” quote by Ray Hagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d8/ray-hagen-36017_quote_the-vocal-credits-for-singin-in-the-rain_1121280.jpg)
![“Talking films revealed [Jean Arthur]'s quirky, remarkable voice: nasal, raspy, querulous— an odd, expressive voice which somehow fit her intense, funny and very smart screen persona.” quote by Eve Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e0f/eve-golden-25326_quote_talking-films-revealed-jean-arthur-s-qui_2061882.jpg)
![“In typical [Joan] Blondell fashion she dreams of “being respectable, to live up there with those fine people, to be a civilized human being. I don’t want to be a gambling house gal all my life. I want to be quality folk.” But, again, she ultimately realizes she’s better than the snobs. “I’m Jenny…” quote by Ray Hagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c52/ray-hagen-36017_quote_in-typical-joan-blondell-fashion-she-dre_385034.jpg)
![“[Lucille Ball]'s such a TV icon it’s hard for some to separate the two Lucys—the gorgeous, snappy actress of film and the wacky, slapstick queen of television. On TV she was a middle-aged housewife, on film she was a dazzling beauty. The difficulty with her movie career wasn’t that she was bad or…” quote by Ray Hagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd0/ray-hagen-36017_beauty_lucille-ball-s-such-a-tv-icon-it-s-hard_2062114.jpg){kind=icon}
![“Joan [Blondell] had always kept it real, always kept her priorities straight. “I wasn’t that ambitious. I enjoyed a home life more than a theatrical career. I just took what they gave me, because I wanted to get home quickly.” Joan, said one writer, personified everyone’s “good friend,” on- and…” quote by Ray Hagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b54/ray-hagen-36017_good-friend_joan-blondell-had-always-kept-it-real-al_2309407.jpg)
![“A point often ignored in cinema history studies of [Bette] Davis,” wrote Jim Parish and Don Stanke years later of Housewife, “is that Ann Dvorak, who plays the film’s title role, was established as a strong dramatic actress long before Bette, and it was she who set the standard for battling with…” quote by Ray Hagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b1/ray-hagen-36017_history_a-point-often-ignored-in-cinema-history_2356172.jpg)
