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posted: 10/21/2003 at 1:24:03 AM ET

When Bernadette's characer in Pennies From Heaven sang was that actually Bernadette singing?

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posted: 10/21/2003 at 10:19:15 AM ET

No. Unfortunately. All the actors lipsynched to popular songs from the depression era.

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posted: 10/21/2003 at 5:15:35 PM ET

I was unsure about this, also. her voice has a 1930s je n'est c'est quoi - it could have been quite plausibly her own voice strangley dubbed.

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posted: 10/22/2003 at 9:27:46 PM ET

Well the song she sings during the "elevator" scene...the voice is the woman who voiced Betty Boop. I don't remember her name, and I know the other singers were rather famos too. Bernadette didn't lip-sink to just one person's voice; it was a couple of different singers of that era. Same thing for the other actors in the movie.

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posted: 10/22/2003 at 9:43:44 PM ET

exactly. they were the singers who made those songs famous during that time. The characters were supposedly living a better life through those songs of happiness despite the fact that they were living through the depression.

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posted: 10/23/2003 at 10:46:05 AM ET

During the elevator scene, the recording of "I Want To Be Bad" is by Helen Kane, a popular singer of the twenties whose voice and appearance "inspired" the cartoon character of Betty Boop. The actress whose voice was actually used for Betty Boop in the cartoon series was Mae Questel, who also voiced Olive Oyl, and late in her career played Woody Allen's hilariously annoying mother in his segment of New York Stories, Oedipus Wrecks. Just wanted to clarify, for those interested in trivia.

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