marciabrady:That audition was just one of the joys of my life because there was just one little upri
marciabrady:That audition was just one of the joys of my life because there was just one little upright piano in this big, big sound-stage and this wonderful man, George Bruns, who ended up doing the music. He taught me little birds calls in the woods and the songs. I was just loving every minute of it. And then, three people came walking out of the sound booth and I knew something was not on track. It was Marc Davis and Winston Hibler, and one other gentleman- I’m not sure who that was. Marc Davis told me: “Now, don’t panic! We were just a little bit concerned about your accent.” And I said: “What accent?” because it was extremely southern! They said: “What we thought was that if Vivien Leigh, a beautiful English lady, could do a southern belle, then surely a southern girl can do an English princess!” And I said: “How do you mean?” So, Marc Davis, who was dramatic and very humorous said in a very English voice: “Do you think you could talk like this?” and I said: “Of course, I can talk like that.” And he said: “How do you do that?”; I said: “Because my dad and I used to do that when I was a little child, when you would imitate everybody.” He said: “Could you sustain it?” “Oh yes, I could.” “Could you read lines like that?” “Yes, if you tell me what I’m supposed to say, I’d do that.” So, they put the dialog before me, and worked with me for about a half an hour and then, we put it on the recording. Because Walt Disney wanted the same person to do everything, the singing and the dialog. -- source link
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