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Lubin said Technicolor was very difficult,
tending to come out red all the time.
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Not a pleasing process to work with,
and a difficult experience.
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Art director Alex Golitzen recalls Hal Mohr
as a rather aloof and unsociable man
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but a very skilled technician. If he were
going to use an amber gel in a scene,
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Golitzen was very careful to see
the effect of the gel on the flats
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and then alter the hues of his paints
to accommodate the colour design.
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Prerecording of the musical numbers
to a click track started in December 1942.
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"They'd put a little click in
to give you your breath" Susanna says.
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"Nelson had trouble with synchronisation,
despite all the years he'd done it."
:38:40
"I never had a problem." Her only concern
was an allergy attack during the sessions
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which she felt compromised her singing.
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In her opinion, her voice was superior in
a Lux radio broadcast on September 13,
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with Rathbone as the opera ghost.
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Jane Farrar is said to have been found by
Waggner in the Universal commissary.
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She is also said to have been a niece
of opera great Geraldine Farrar.
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Waggner put her in The Climax in 1944,
following Phantom.
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She only made two other films
before retiring.
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She was married to the owner
of the Brock Candy Company.
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She was not a singer and was dubbed
in Phantom and The Climax
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by Francia White.
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Susanna's vocal character
was a dramatic coloratura.
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Nelson Eddy went on a concert tour
following Phantom
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and invited Susanna to join him,
but she was too scared.
:39:32
Another offer was sent to her
through singer Lee Sweetman.
:39:35
The Metropolitan Opera wanted her
to play Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier.
:39:39
The offer was circuitous because
the Met wouldn't be caught dead
:39:43
soliciting movie people. Stubborn then
as now, Susanna rejected the hint,
:39:48
which might have been
the springboard to a great career.
:39:59
This set, looking like the grand staircase
mezzanine in Grand Central station,