Speak Low - Ava Gardner - Eileen Wilson - Dick Haymes - One Touch of Venus

[@BBGshop7]

I just saw this movie for the first time.. I am 29.. I fell in love with this song that I had to search it.. I'm glad it's here❤

[@stevencasey]

AND Ava sang the song, no dubbing!!!!

[@BBGshop7]

​@@stevencasey I would have never assumed videos like this were originally in a different language. I knew they put English dialog over the old Japanese, Chinese martial arts movies etc.. Now I'm curious which old movies I've been watching are actually dubbed. I'll be checking the credits more often now😅 Unless you meant "lip-synching" Either way, It makes me really appreciate the performance all the more.❤

[@kuklafranandollie]

@@stevencasey Did you read the title of the clip and the note? Ave was dubbed by Eileen WIlson.

[@kuklafranandollie]

@@BBGshop7 Ava was dubbed by Eileen Wilson.

[@BBGshop7]

@@kuklafranandollie very beautiful voice indeed

[@bobleming5673]

First time I saw this movie I was 12 and up late sick with a fever. Right then and there I fell in love with classic movies and especially this one. I’m 69 now and this movie still touches me.

[@4pinky2011]

"WHEN ROMANCE AND CLASS IS NOW A THING OF THE PAST"

[@rainbow9007]

When I saw this movie, I was a little girl and I became mesmerized at this song! Now that I’m all grown up, I can listen to it again. It’s beautiful, classic and haunting. Thank you for posting it.

[@XX-gy7ue]

THE SONG IS DELICATELY MAGNIFICENT , BUT NO STATUE EVER MADE COULD BE AS BEAUTIFUL AS AVA GARDNER !

[@slojamz01]

I see, we both feel the same way about, Venus.

[@mr.c4408]

This song and movie are absolutely magical. It ends "too soon"!

[@andielather7149]

This was my favorite movie when I as a child in the 1950’. Still love this song. Just beautiful! 🥰

[@paulaepstein9051]

Mine too!

[@betsylalich4570]

Boz Scaggs has a great version and CD.

[@jazzladz5950]

My three sisters and I watched this movie probably a gazillion times one summer in the late 50s.

[@ThePalmermark]

The movie was so good!

[@roseyc.5846]

I was just a kid, but..I LOVED THAT MOVIE!! I was transfixed by Ava's radiant beauty, and, Robert Walker Jr. was SO adorable! 🤗❤️

[@fredbloggs6080]

This is Robert Walker--Robert Walker Jr. was his son, who was also an actor, and looked very much like him. Robert Walker died at 32, of an adverse reaction to a sedative injection.

[@randycrew]

I can’t find the movie at all now😢

[@fredbloggs6080]

@@randycrew Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3aol3dumZZoiqc

[@betsylalich4570]

​@@randycrew TCM (Turner Classic Movies) or try the internet.

[@charlestimberlake5522]

I fell in love with this song, the music of Kurt Well, and Ava Gardner. I was all of 5 years old! Saw it in a theater, yeah, in 1948. Trust me, it all does end too soon.

[@jaset362]

Ava was a Goddess. I've watched the movie on TV when I was 9 years old and the same night I met her in my dream in blooming orchard. She was laughing. I never could recall any details of our conversation.I did not know even her name ,movie title and song title (I found out 30 years later),.As 9 yo boy I liked her voice and beauty and heart melting singing.This song sounded in my head for years as something special.

[@123boink]

But of course this is not her voice you're hearing.

[@tobylundy3516]

@@123boink pp 01 03 1939

[@kuklafranandollie]

@@tobylundy3516 What does that mean?

[@luispalacio5739]

@@tobylundy3516 are still smoking that stuffs?

[@carlottavigna7822]

Words and music you can actually understand...performed by adults who kept their clothes on and their knees together ...what a wonderful thing!

[@novenaprayer7487]

The same couldn't be said in real life though. They were all at it like rabbits. Lol.

[@toshomni9478]

Naturally if all they ever do is run away after kissing somebody.

[@TheRelger]

Carlotta Vigna, Ava was known to love sex with many partners of both sexes.

[@princeandrey]

Well the subtext of these songs is far different from their 1940's-sanitized Hollywood presentation. Especially incongruous here since it's about a statue of Venus coming to life. But Ava is fully alluring fully dressed, even suggestively dressed.

[@АнтонинаНичаева]

@@toshomni9478 Вы что были свидетелем?Ава была трижды замужем.

[@ruthhellkamp926]

I remember seeing this movie as a child..even at the tender age...i fell in love with the song.. later on in life , i collected many books by the lyricist Ogden Nash.....this song will never go out of style...it's a classic. I also had a crush on Dick Haymes...and ended up seeing him perform LIVE as a teenager at the famous Fontainebleau in Miami . He wore a white dinner jacket and was so great....a great voice!

[@elysianfields49]

One of the most transcendently beautiful songs ever written; no wonder it is my favorite.And it is refreshing to see a world that I once remember: one of mature and well-dressed adults, and genuine performers. I suppose I was just born out of my ACTUAL time...

[@noirchild58]

'Transcendently beautiful' Yes, that's it.

[@williammacdonald5329]

noirchild58

[@UncleMike43]

Let me meditate on that one.

[@Catholic-Redpilled-Spaniard]

damn right. ava was an angel

[@jazzlover1723]

She was no angel...just ask Frank LOL

[@carrvagio]

What a classic beauty; Venus herself could not have surpassed this gorgeous face.

[@eddiejpardovani]

Great scene, great song, great movie

[@kathification1]

I agree. This was an incredibly charming movie.

[@bronxboy47]

It was one of the joys of my childhood.

[@keithwahrer2223]

Love this Kurt Weill song.

[@danielacalfapietro8727]

timeless music and beauty. As long as you have a soul that vibrates, you can perceive the higher dimension and return it to the world.

[@ladyjart]

The great Robert Walker is also in the scene with Ava Gardner. Ahhh.... What an era.

[@MrDanamp]

Robert Walker really does it for me! I wish he'd starred in way more romantic dramas; just a dream in The Clock.

[@malcolmlewis6014]

Till The Clouds Roll By

[@Partnerfrance]

Kurt Weil was a genius!

[@patriciagarrett5526]

One of my favorites as a kid...every time it was on I watched it and that was a very long time again...still a favorite today and I am in my middle 70s.

[@nancygarcia1323]

Yes I’m 77 and this movie was cute and this love when he sees her at the end and she is no longer a statue I was s happy❤❤❤❤

[@jeffwhite3625]

Fantastic, a better time than today.

[@levieenrose7646]

Ava was so beautiful and had such an aura about her which is captured in this wonderful movie. Robert Walker and Ava are perfectly cast and Dick Haymes smooth voice is mesmerising. 😮😮

[@123boink]

What about Eileen's voice?

[@bugleboy4527]

What a voice he had, so rich

[@noreenjackson5382]

Lovely tune, lyrics and the film was enchanting beautiful.

[@doloresradumski1708]

My favorite romantic fun movie! Love it was

[@twilson11208]

I simply loved this film...Ava Gardner was so enchantingly beautiful and Dick Haymes with that wonderful manly singing voice.

[@cjordan1161]

Time again and again , this sublime song brings me to tears.

[@antglo1]

I loved this movie when I was very young I was born the year this was made I must have seen it at least 19 times

[@because-strudels]

1:20 The emotions on Ava's face will never cease to arrest and move me. The brief sparkle of moistness in her eyes is everything. So much said about love and loneliness, in such simple, poignant lines.

[@casperendicott6861]

One of my favorite songs -- beautiful words & music.

[@Justificus]

One of the most sensitive and touching moments in the career of Ava Gardner. The director asked her to remember a time of loss and loneliness while singing this song. We see in the final closing lyrics a sweetly innocent Ava with haunted expression and tearful eyes that so captured her true inner beauty and loveliness. The movie star legend would come later and we would lose in all the years of publicity how vulnerable in reality she had always been.

[@123boink]

Of course, it's Eileen Wilson singing, not Ava.

[@arcturianstarport8949]

@@123boink Yes, but Ava Gardner could sing too. Just not on the same level as a pro singer like Eileen Wilson.

[@katlovesdogs4119]

This was one of my favorite movies. I saw it as a child on a movie channel that showed old films. Loved "Touch of Venus." Wish Turner Classic Movies would show it. Would love to see it again.

[@arcturianstarport8949]

Get the re-mastered DVD, it's worth it. Clarity.

[@maranatha12]

I saw this movie on TV one Sunday night while my parents were at church. I was just a boy I don't remember how old but I have never forgotten how the song made an impression on me. I have heard many versions of this song since but I don't think any are better than this one - except Smokey Robinson's.

[@maureen7746]

Try listening to versions by Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass on guitar, Diane Schurr, and the iconic Sarah Vaughan (Live version.).

[@JulietSchnyder]

I saw this movie as a young girl. I love this song. When my nephew played the trumpet his music teacher put Speak Low in the recidal.

[@123boink]

Yes, Eileen Wilson is a great singer!

[@Lucyandreg]

Speak low when you speak, love Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon Speak low when you speak, love Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we're swept apart, too soon Speak low, darling, speak low Love is a spark, lost in the dark too soon, too soon I feel wherever I go that tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here and always too soon Time is so old and love so brief Love is pure gold and time a thief We're late, darling, we're late The curtain descends, everything ends too soon, too soon I wait, darling, I wait Will you speak low to me, speak love to me and soon

[@TheeSeer]

What a pleasure!

[@juliemacandrews1434]

Eileen Wilson..& Dick Haymes?? absolutely fabulous..velvet voices

[@jeromewhelan6723]

I am so captivated by the rich voice of Ava Gardner when she starts off to sing this title. This is the performance that I remember from my young teen age years.

[@123boink]

Did you read the note? That's Eileen Wilson's voice, not Ava's.

[@jeromewhelan6723]

@@123boink Thanks for the correction. (It is still the performance I most enjoy, the warm richness of voice.)

[@123boink]

@@jeromewhelan6723 Eileen would be happy! Here's my interview with her: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fofRmaOlft-gj6M

[@davidmarohl4803]

O.K., one of Weill's best with wonderful lyrics by Nash. I practice this song on flute or piano or both about every other day. Simply one of the best.

[@nancygarcia1323]

My all time favorite movie and this song is mesmerizing ❤❤❤

[@jh8856]

One of the greatest songs ever written - rarely has the words and music been so perfectly melded. Not seen this film for a while but am reminded : -Just how good a singerwas Dick Haymes -How pretty was Eileen Wilson -Ava Gardner - say no more -And Robert Walker a really terrific actor Loved it.

[@kuklafranandollie]

Eileen Wilson is the dubber - she does not appear in the clip.

[@dannusmk1578]

Riveting! Absolutely beautiful movie. Thank you for uploading.

[@danielstanwyck2812]

One of the loveliest of songs. Hauntingly beautiful. And the scene devised around the song so well done. Was there ever anyone more beautiful than Ava Gardner? Linda Darnell, while not more beautiful, was perhaps the only equal.

[@princeandrey]

Maybe Robert Walker...

[@jacquelinemcsweeney5266]

Wonderfulness

[@malcolmlamoury2055]

My all time favourite melody, Beautiful music and lyrics, with two of the best actors of the 40's Ava Gardner and Dick Haymes.

[@123boink]

And one of the best singers - Eileen Wilson!

[@malcolmlamoury2055]

This is pure Romance and provokes those Magical feelings we haveTwo of my favourite stars Ava Gardner and Dick Haymes.

[@malcolmlamoury2055]

Yes apologies for not mentioning the voice that makes the magic Eileen Wilson

[@malcolmlamoury2055]

Yes agreed, been searching for more of Eileen Wilson

[@malcolmlamoury2055]

Agree, Eileen Wilson provides the magic voice for Ava Gardner.

[@Ardeshir1P]

Very beautiful!

[@mariomunozgrasso6327]

A❤A .

[@TheNightflier70]

Brought here from the "Phoenix" movie :) I had never heard this great classic song before. It has been love at first listen !

[@raymondemmett7775]

My mother loved the movie A TOUCH OF VENUS with this song SPEAK LOW NORA JONES TONY BENNETT ALSO BARBARA STRASAND GREAT VOCALS ALL THREE OF THEM GREAT MOVIE MAMA REMEMBER OUR NIGHTS WATCHING THE BLACK AND WHITE OLD SCOOL MOVIES WITH YOU I'M NOW IN MY 70S AND STILL WATCH THE MOVIE

[@KIZERVONZINGER]

This is my favorite part of this movie! :-) Thanks for posting it.

[@valdiva27]

Love this movie and this song 🎵 ❤️ 💕

[@Vaibik]

Want this movie in my collection! As romantic as it gets! Although this song was introduced to me in the movie Phoenix!

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

+Vaibik I thought the same thing just now. Phoenix is a very good movie. In this movie, they should have realized that Ava Gardner could sing. Not that Eillen Wilson had a bad voice.

[@casperendicott6861]

Robert Walker was perfect as the shy, bumbling "boy-next-door" type who accidentally awakens the Goddess of Love. Really very funny -- every boy's fantasy -- well, almost every boy's.

[@kingusmcgee]

I agree, Kurt Weill wrote some absolutely beautiful, haunting melodies as this one. Another fave was "Here I'll Stay' from that 40's era.

[@princeandrey]

And "September Song"?

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

All this movie needed was more of the songs from the stage play.

[@trajan75]

The opening line is from Shakespeare "Love's Labor's Lost". Ogden Nash took it from there with the haunting melody of Kurt Weil. Ann Margret did a nice rendition in the TV Movie "The Two Mrs Grenvilles"

[@carlossoares8910]

Speak Low: eternal melody.

[@Samalabear]

A nice movie where everything does work out in the end and everyone winds up with the right people, a least I think so, having watched it for the first time in years the other day on OK.ru. I've been watching a lot of movies with Ava Gardner over there lately. Some very interesting. I liked "The Angel Wore Red," with Dirk Bogarde. The whole movie is rather difficult to watch because there's lots of tragedy in it, but these two in it were terrific. Takes place in the Spanish Civil War.

[@yvonneburns2786]

Not for the Goddess herself only her earthly representative Venus Jones

[@MikaelleCartright]

Loved this!

[@kingusmcgee]

I think Kurt Weill wrote this one, Ava Gardner's singing probably dubbed as was Rita Hayworth's and several others, The composers transcended the singers and musicians. Without them, the best voice in the world wouldn't sound good. Dick Haymes, the absolute best. My favorite era - the 40's - music and culture in general. Thanks for posting.

[@123boink]

The dubber's name is listed in the title and in the note beneath the clip, as is the composer and lyricist.

[@maureen7746]

Music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ogden Nash. First line a version from Shakespeare.

[@1962HILTON]

Wow!

[@ThePalmermark]

I know others have sung this as a solo, but this is the Best! Meant to be sung by Two people!

[@jimjordan8253]

Wonderful

[@Travers541]

Yes they were talented people and when we compare the singing and acting of today there is no comparsion.

[@markrossow6303]

great era of movies

[@AlistairKiwi]

Kurt Weill- there's no one in his league (except Stephen Sondheim). But Kurt Weill - he brings us the skills of the Weimar Republic.

[@champagnemls]

Yess, we are in 40s. What a dress. Greek Goddess a although not of the period. Silk jersey. And that very thing belt. Perfect.

[@jeanneeinhorn1203]

Try Lotte Lenya's version. She was married to Weill and has a very unique voice

[@greatmusicfan57]

Awesome Classic movie. Ava North Carolina Contessa💕👍

[@Concetta20]

I only recently realized the title comes from my favorite Shakespeare play, “Much Ado About Nothing”.

[@KAIJUG]

Haven't seen this movie in years.

[@dianaaljadeff2983]

The singer who dubbed Ava Gardner here is Eileen Wilson

[@kuklafranandollie]

Doesn’t it say that in both the title and the note?

[@gabrielcoronado6395]

¡Ava Gardner, que hembra! (Les Luthiers, Kathy, la Reina del Saloon).

[@jackjacinto7185]

“...what’s more we have a Gid that CAN NIT KIE! yes indeed! THAT IS INE OF THE THINGS GOD ALMIGHTY CAN NOT DO, HE CAN NIT KUE!! AMEN.

[@jamesstuartbrice420]

I think I heard this song on a Colombo episode with Janet Leigh as an aging ex-star. I always wondered what song it was. I used to think Kurt Weil was only Bertoldt Brecht's composer.

[@mag.rudolfgriesser5623]

Ava, the greatest love of Frank Sinatra - a vamp - i hope now they are reunited, in heaven, as Frank used to say - the best is yet to come!

[@princeandrey]

Not worth kissing the hem of her dress.

[@greatmusicfan57]

💗👍

[@princeandrey]

Kurt Weil, after he left Germany for the US, found a new career as a song writer for Hollywood musicals. He wrote "SpeakLow" with Ogden Nash, the humorous versifier. It is one of the more haunting songs to come out of Tin Pan Alley. Ava is beautiful, of course, though of course she's dubbed. When Dick Haymes begins to sing, though, my heart begins the break. Actually, Ava had a lovely, heartfelt voice, but Hollywood wanted something smoother!

[@princeandrey]

Interesting lyric by Ogden Nash. Speaking low when you speak love is clearly and fully about *making *love. Why else speak low unless you're performing the most intimate act of love. One of the lovely things about the song, is that it;i a slow, dreamy rhumba and she moves so beautifully to it. She was just a simple, uneducated Southern gi rl of extraordinary beauty and she became a huge star, and --in time--a fairly good actress.

[@claudelemaire7336]

where ever i go, i speak low.

[@trajan75]

There may be a straight man who would have run away from Ava Gardner at that moment, but I never met him.

[@margaritaalvarezvillanueva6501]

Es un tema maravilloso. Dejo un enlace a una interpretación de Kurt Weill, su autor: Kurt Weill Sings and plays "Speak low" Y otro la interpretación de Lotte Lenya, magnífica intérpret y, asimismo, mujer de Kurt Weill: Lotte Lenya - Speak Low

[@bobapbob5812]

shame the movie cut out most of the music

[@javiervivanco919]

Nostalgia de mi niñez

[@Catholic-Redpilled-Spaniard]

que suerte tuviste amigo.

[@javiervivanco919]

Sí pero es doloroso...nunca volverán esos tiempos ,...saludos

[@UncleMike43]

Listen to Peggy Lee's version of this song for a real treat. It's right here on KZbin.

[@cecilgrant6356]

good style

[@robbybonfire9944]

Used to be able to watch the entire movie, here.

[@djpass-mi4bi]

Don Pedro says this to Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing" when he doesn't want her to be overheard. "Speak low if you speak love." Mr. Nash took it from there.

[@ronniepeterson6911]

Love that Broadway turned Movie Musical for all mannequin makers.

[@johneyon5257]

thanks for putting the singer Eileen Wilson's name here - too many youtube movie cuts ignore such info - too bad the her voice and Dick Haymes' didn't blend very well - but individually they were so good - my only complaint goes to the composer who ended the song so weirdly

[@123boink]

I think they blended beautifully. Here's my interview with Eileen: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fofRmaOlft-gj6M

[@manuellima5004]

O filme ONE TOUCH OF VENUS era interessante, a atriz AVA GARDNER era uma mulher muito agradável e bem feita ( in my opinion )

[@djpass-mi4bi]

Mr. Nash got a little help from Shakespeare on the lyrics!

[@123boink]

Yes, from "Much Ado About Nothing" - "Speak low if you speak love.""

[@princeandrey]

Very little, actually.

[@RobertSilvestri86]

Ava never looked lovelier 🦜.

[@johnerdmann2700]

Haymes at best

[@johnerdmann7797]

thebest

[@SuperTitojr]

Olga San Juan was outstanding in this movie. Eva Gardner's voice was dubbed.

[@123boink]

Did you see that I credited her dubber in the title and the note?

[@allys744]

It kinda bummed me out that Robert walker was literally the only one in this scene who didn’t sing along to this song.

[@123boink]

Neither did Olga San Juan.

[@WaissbluthPeriodista]

por eso me gustan los standards: se les puede seguir la pista pa adelante y pa atrás

[@jorgedelafuentecarassas]

A que te refieres ?