West Side Story

I love West Side Story.

I can't find my DVD .

it was just on TCM......I bought the DVD maybe 3 months ago, and still hadn't watched it.

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very true Marquise...when I watch her, I forget she was dubbed.....



the world must be ending....WickedFreak and I have something in common? ;oP

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I'm in total agreement about Natalie Wood. It's a shame she wasn't nominated that year from this instead of Splendor in the Grass. She might have one the Oscar.

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She was wonderful in Splendor in the Grass....it would be hard for me to pick between the two roles, which was better

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East Side Story is better.

Oh, sorry. The Apprentice: The Musical.

Natalie Wood = amazing.

She never, ever aged. Her face always stayed the same - absolutely gorgeous. It didn't hurt that she has immense talent to back the looks up.

I just bought the DVD a few weeks ago. LOVE it. George Chikiris (sp?) was so ridiculously charming. And Rita Moreno was sexy and adorable at the same time....

i watched it last night also! simply stunning. a really well made film

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I truly do enjoy this show! Of all of the productions I have been in, I think it was the most difficult, but in the end was the most magnificent and rewarding and FUN show I have ever done. As far as the movie goes, I have the DVD, and I definitley think its really well done. I mean, the dancing is amazing, but I have always thought that the movie version of "America" was not as good as the stage version. But I guess you can't win 'em all.

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(and this one is for wickedfreak, our 14yr old moronchild)

This one os for Elphaba:

I believe the word is won...not one


learn how to read, child......as it wasn't any of my posts (until this one) with the words won, or one........

and the correct word is "is" (see above) (not os).........

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Hey, Marquise --- regarding "dubbing be damned," I agree with that.

I personally don't care if they use a ghost singer any more than I care if they use a stunt double in an action scene. The job is to make me believe that they are singing or falling off a building. (Or both! Wouldn't that be a nifty trick?)

Natalie was enough of a singer, as was Deborah Kerr and Audrey Hepburn, to convince me they were doing the singing. They understood how a person looks, breaths, etc. physically when singing. That's why (along with the legendary Marni Nixon) they did such a great job of trickery with these performances. There are moments in all three dubbed jobs, where I can't even tell where one voice ends and the other begins. That's a job well done.

So... GOOD dubbing doesn't bother me in the least... BAD dubbing drives me crazy. Honestly there are times in recent films I WISH they would have dubbed certain performances. Do it well, and I'd prefer it to a bad or mediocre voice. But they have to convince me it's them. That's the hard part.

I've even seen actors singing to their own vocal playbacks on film, and it looks like they're being dubbed. It's not easy to do convincingly, no matter who's voice is coming out of the speakers.

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