Could Stephen Boyd Sing?

The dubbing of Stephen Boyd's vocals is a lingering mystery in the annals of movie musicals. Various sources have credited the robust baritone to a studio singer named James Joyce, but Joyce's name is documented nowhere else in terms of film history, and his distinctive voice has been heard in no films before or since.

Did Stephen Boyd do his own singing in the movie Jumbo?

Billy Rose's Jumbo is a 1962 American musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye. ... The film was Doris Day's last screen musical. Stephen Boyd's singing voice was dubbed by Los Angeles studio singer, Jimmy Joyce.

Did Jimmy Durante do stunts in jumbo?

BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO (1962) is a most pleasant and nostalgic trip to the circus, based on the 1935 show that Mr. ... Starring in the movie are Doris Day and Stephen Boyd as circus performers (and one can only hope they did not do their own stunts), with Jimmy Durante (from the 1935 show) and Martha Raye for comic relief.

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