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The Screen's Best Voices

NE of Hollywood’s leading sound men (he discreetly prefers to remain anonymous) has been selecting the screen’s best voices. Incidentaliy, he can recognise forty-seven stars, sixty character actors and a hundred contract players by their voices alone. : The most distinguished voice in Hollywood to-day, he says, is that of Herbert Marshall. That of Sidney Toler (he’s the new "Charlie Chan’) is the most unusual, "being lowpitched yet so well delivered that it could send a whisper fifty yards away." The "most English" voice is Gilbert Emery’s-and he’s an American. Character actors, this authority declares, are the best speakers. Among the women, however, his vote goes to Claudette Colbert, who "utilises the broad ‘a,’ a French colour, the English inflection and the light comedy timbre of voice rarely heard in the Jast twenty-five. years."

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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 33, 27 January 1939, Page 15

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The Screen's Best Voices Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 33, 27 January 1939, Page 15

The Screen's Best Voices Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 33, 27 January 1939, Page 15

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