Actors who sing. Any favorites?
 

I was mightily impressed by Kevin Spacey playing Bobby Darin In "Beyond the Sea" and by his singing (I just got the soundtrack CD.)

Another one I enjoyed was Meryl Streep in "Postcards From the Edge" where, at the very end she kicks out the jams on "Checking Out of This Heartbreak Hotel"; she has a great bluesy country voice.

So, what performances by actors who "don't normally sing" do you like? (Horrific examples are good too :D)

Best,
C.

Zoe Deschenal

She sings a duet with Leon Redbone - "Baby it's Cold Outside" from the soundtrack of the movie Elf. Her voice and the way she sings is wonderful.

http://onepixeldesign.com/music/Baby...d_Outside2.mp3

Leonard Nimoy.

Treat Williams and John Savage in the movie version of "Hair". Nell Carter, too, but we all knew SHE could sing.

je

Why William Shatner of course! I check out his version of Harry Chapin's "Taxi" last night on Youtube. Good grief!

Maggie Gyllenhaal did a couple of nice songs in the movie "Happy Endings" that it made it to the soundtrack. She has a sweet voice, and sings like she really enjoys the songs...

Dennis Quaid did a great job singing "Closer to You" (which he also wrote) in the "Big Easy"

Tony Perkins made a couple of jazz vocal albums. I have one and it isn't too bad. Sissy Spacek in Coalminer's daughter also comes to mind.

Clint Eastwood managed to destroy a fair number of country songs in the movie "Honkey Tonk Man," although the movie wasn't too awful otherwise.

He was also accused of singing in the Western musical "Paint Your Wagon," but he was a young man and can be forgiven on account of his brains hadn't grown in yet.

Juliette Lewis & the Licks... but - is she really an actor?

http://www.julietteandthelicks.com/

I thought Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Rene Zellweger were excellent doing their own singing in "Chicago."

The late, great Jerry Orbach is best known for his acting roles in Dirty Dancing and Law and Order. But he started as a Broadway song and dance man. He was in the original Fantasticks. His singing is a revelation, if you've never heard it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7nOkVz79Xw

Kristen Chenoweth

Rodney Allen Rippey

Seconds on Clint Eastwood in "Paint Your Wagon". Didn't Lee Marvin warble in that one as well??

Sebastian Cabot

Mystic,

You had to dig up Cabot...:no: :no: :yes: :yes: :D

I heard his 'hip' interpretation of Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and all I can say is.........

.........no, sorry, no words for that one :sigh:

C.

Words, maybe not; but there is a word for it. :smoke:

Jayne Mansfield

Gwyneth Paltrow (in the movie Duets)

How about... Robert Mitchum?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...47/calypso.jpg

Any fans of the Altman movie Nashville here? There were some interesting renditions in that.

Andy Griffith

As I recall Robert Mitchem wrote and sang the title track to his movie Thunder Road. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Road

Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Gene Kelly, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien.

And one fella that wan't Irish, Al Jolson.

Striesand does both pretty well, eh?

Yeah, that's the stuff! :thmbsp:

Chad Everett

Yep, Nashville is alot of fun. I can even take Keith Carradine singing I'm Easy in small doses. :music:

Thirds. Paint Your Wagon was what I thought of when I saw this thread. Lee Marvin can really croak out a tune!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XdtXmBZsaM4

I second that! Minnie Driver sings and writes songs, pretty much acoustic, and she is very good. She has 3 CDs out now.

She indeed has a lovely voice! And other things...:thmbsp:

I forgot Julie Andrews! :tresbon:

David Soul. Don't give up on us, baby.

Debbie Reynolds
Kenny Rogers
Bon Jovi
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Gene Autry
Willie Nelson
Jim Nabors
George Strait
John Denver
Olivia Newton John
John Travolta
Glen Campbell

The immortal MM sang a couple of songs in Some Like It Hot, both of them pretty good as I recall.

Orbach also sang Be Our Guest in Beauty and the Beast.
Jimmy

Joel Grey singing "Wilkommen" from "Cabaret". The best, funniest one I got is Jack Webb singing/croaking out "Try a Little Tenderness". Enrico Caruso, he ain't.

Elvis. He was a big movie star for awhile, indeed perhaps the biggest all around star ever.

Which brings Sinatra to mind, he was a very good actor.

And don't forget Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo.

Ken Curtis who was in many western pictures including The Searchers sang in the Sons of the Pioneers. He can be seen singing in John Ford's Rio Grande including a Dale Evans song "San Antone".

"I like my chicken fried with a golden hide,
ahhhh-haaaaa, San Antone"

Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

Damn , Used to love those singing cowboy movies at the saturday afternoon theater matinee's.In black and white....Elvis movies too..

Madonna in Evita

How about a singer that can act? Dwight Yoakam & David Bowie.