Kelley writes: "Wollen goes on to say, "It remains an endearing irony that, in reality, if I can so use the phrase, Debbie Reynolds's singing voice in the film was in fact dubbed by Jean Hagen, so that what we see and hear is the unveiling of a mystery which subverts its own appearance of authenticity." (p. 56, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, London: BFI, 1992). So there you have it." But according to the commentator on the laserdisc edition, it was a different actress who sang REeynolds' songs, but Hagen did dub the words "Our love will last until the stars fall from the sky" at the end of the "Dancing Cavalier". Contra Wollen, I'd suggest that what we see and hear is precisely the VEILING of a mystery and that nothing is subverted (or darn little, anyway). The film in fact is a nearly non-stop gloss on the myth of the Roaring Twenties and the silent films which evokes simultaneously nostalgia and contempt for its targets, all the better to reinforce 50s ideological agendas. (But I do enjoy it tremendously, too!) --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN