Sally Patience
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Sally Patience is an Australia
n actress and one of the country's most prominent voice-over artists. She was born in Melbourne and grew up in the city's south eastern suburbs. She attended the Victorian College of the Arts
where she trained as a dancer. Sally Patience worked in the dance field for several years before moving into acting and ultimately voice-over
work where she continues to work today.
TV series Fractured Flickers
and Woody Allen's
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
(1966).
Double Take performances featured distinctly Australian voicings (often with exaggerated "Ocker
" and ethnic Australian accents) and many local humorous references and the films that the Double Take team sent up were presented in their entirety with scripts were carefully tailored to follow the original sequencing of the movies. Double Take scripts were developed by Des Mangan and Sally Patience who were the predominant actors who provided voices for the films.
Mangan and Patience gained a strong following around Australia
with their Double Take shows, which were performed live in a cinema. Typically seated at the back of the auditorium, using microphones plugged into the cinema's sound system, the Double Take team performed live comedic voice-overs of movies such as the American B-grade sci-fi film The Astro-zombies and the 1960s Italian low-budget 'Sword and Sandal
' epic Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili. Of necessity much of their voice-over performance was tightly scripted, but working live also allowed the team scope to occasionally insert topical jokes and references.
. Sally Patience played a major role in the movie by contributing to its script and by providing the bulk of the female voices for the film.
The managers of the Hercules Returns
project purchased the rights to both the original Ercole film and Mangan's script, hired cinematographer and film maker David Parker to help write a story to wrap around the Double Take routine. The film was Parker's first as a director and the project came in on time and on budget at a cost of less than AU$1 million, and shooting was completed in just eight days.
On release of the film Urban Cinefile reported that -
Similarly, the Mark Takacs in his review of Hercules Returns on the Internet Movie Data Base comments that -
The lead actors who appeared on screen in Hercules Returns were well-known to local Australian audiences. Bruce Spence
has been one of the country's most prominent stage and screen actors since the early 1970s. Mary Coustas
was a member of the popular "Wogs Out of Work" team, where she created her Greek-Australian character "Effie", and she co-starred in the popular TV sitcom Acropolis Now
. David Argue
was well known from his many live comedy, TV and film appearances. Director David Parker has had a long association with writer-director Nadia Tass
and they have collaborated on many popular films including Malcolm. Hercules Returns
is also notable as the last screen credit for veteran actor Frank Thring
(who performed the voice of Zeus) and there are also cameo appearances by Australian film critics David Stratton
, Margaret Pomeranz
and Ivan Hutchinson.
Ironically, the 'real' stars of the film, Des Mangan and Sally Patience, do not appear on screen in the movie and their voice-overs are instead mimed by Argue, Spence and Coustas.
artists and she regularly works on major national and local advertising campaigns.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n actress and one of the country's most prominent voice-over artists. She was born in Melbourne and grew up in the city's south eastern suburbs. She attended the Victorian College of the Arts
Victorian College of the Arts
The Faculty of the VCA and Music is a faculty of the University of Melbourne, in Victoria . VCAM is located near the Melbourne central business district, on two campuses, one - the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - on the Parkville campus of the University of Melbourne, and the other - the...
where she trained as a dancer. Sally Patience worked in the dance field for several years before moving into acting and ultimately voice-over
Voice-over
Voice-over is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations...
work where she continues to work today.
Double Take
The Double Take shows began in Sydney in 1986 and was part of the dub parody genre in which ostensibly serious films were deliberately re-voiced in a satirical or spoof-like manner. Well-known examples of this genre include the 1960s Jay WardJay Ward
J Troplong "Jay" Ward was an American creator and producer of animated television cartoons. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken...
TV series Fractured Flickers
Fractured Flickers
Fractured Flickers is a live-action syndicated half-hour television comedy show that was produced by Jay Ward, who is otherwise known for animated cartoons. The pilot film was produced in 1961 , but the series wasn't completed until 1963...
and Woody Allen's
Woody Allen
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
The soundtrack album to What's Up Tiger Lily? was released in 1966. It contains music by The Lovin' Spoonful. It was re-released on CD along with You're a Big Boy Now, the Spoonful's soundtrack for the 1966 Francis Ford Coppola film. It reached No...
(1966).
Double Take performances featured distinctly Australian voicings (often with exaggerated "Ocker
Ocker
The term "ocker" is used both as a noun and adjective for an Australian who speaks and acts in an uncultured manner, using a broad Australian accent...
" and ethnic Australian accents) and many local humorous references and the films that the Double Take team sent up were presented in their entirety with scripts were carefully tailored to follow the original sequencing of the movies. Double Take scripts were developed by Des Mangan and Sally Patience who were the predominant actors who provided voices for the films.
Mangan and Patience gained a strong following around Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
with their Double Take shows, which were performed live in a cinema. Typically seated at the back of the auditorium, using microphones plugged into the cinema's sound system, the Double Take team performed live comedic voice-overs of movies such as the American B-grade sci-fi film The Astro-zombies and the 1960s Italian low-budget 'Sword and Sandal
Sword and sandal
The Peplum , also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made Historical or Biblical Epics that dominated the Italian film industry from 1957 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western"...
' epic Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili. Of necessity much of their voice-over performance was tightly scripted, but working live also allowed the team scope to occasionally insert topical jokes and references.
Hercules Returns
The Double Take show was taken to a new level in the feature film Hercules ReturnsHercules Returns
Hercules Returns is a 1993 Australian comedy film directed by David Parker, starring David Argue, Michael Carman, Bruce Spence and Mary Coustas. The film has a cult following in Australia and other countries...
. Sally Patience played a major role in the movie by contributing to its script and by providing the bulk of the female voices for the film.
The managers of the Hercules Returns
Hercules Returns
Hercules Returns is a 1993 Australian comedy film directed by David Parker, starring David Argue, Michael Carman, Bruce Spence and Mary Coustas. The film has a cult following in Australia and other countries...
project purchased the rights to both the original Ercole film and Mangan's script, hired cinematographer and film maker David Parker to help write a story to wrap around the Double Take routine. The film was Parker's first as a director and the project came in on time and on budget at a cost of less than AU$1 million, and shooting was completed in just eight days.
On release of the film Urban Cinefile reported that -
-
- Des Mangan and Sally Patience have travelled the country - and some of the world - performing their unique show, Double Take, to great acclaim. And good houses; they've grossed over a million dollars to date, with shows in all capital cities. It was launched in Sydney in 1986, in a modest sort of way, but two years ago the show settled as a resident of Melbourne.
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- They put words into people's mouths; new words that LOOK as though they belong on the screen, but in fact have jumped from Des Mangan's rampant, ribald, risky and often riotous imagination.
Similarly, the Mark Takacs in his review of Hercules Returns on the Internet Movie Data Base comments that -
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- "I've done it. You've probably done it. You're sitting up late one night watching an incredibly *bad* movie of some sort, and you start throwing in your own versions of the lines -- "Don't shoot me yet, I neeed to flex first!", things like that.
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- Well, the team "Double Take" (Des Mangan and Sally Patience) has turned this concept into a hilarious and profitable business. It started March 1986 at an underground cinema in Sydney, Australia when they rescripted and redubbed Astro Zombies live to a forty-person audience. A few months later they were playing in Sydney's arthouse theatre, sold out five hours before the show, and turned away 600 people.
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- Now director David Parker and producer Philip Jaroslow brings the "Double Take" team to the movies with Hercules Returns. There's really only maybe fifteen or twenty minutes of "wrapper" -- the rest of the film is the old Italian movie with Double Take's redubs and occasional shots of the chaos going on in the projection booth as the characters bustle to provide the live dialogue.
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- The movie was quite a hit at the `93 Seattle Film Festival, and the audience I saw it with was laughing out loud throughout the movie. The general style makes me want to use adjectives like "madcap" and "zany"; it's certainly not a dark or intellectual comedy. The humor is definitely adult: Hercules grabs the queen's daughter, Labia, which prompts the queen to say "Get your hands off my Labia!" The original incredibly bad Italian sets (really fake looking leftover stuff) also adds to the fun."
The lead actors who appeared on screen in Hercules Returns were well-known to local Australian audiences. Bruce Spence
Bruce Spence
Bruce Spence, born September 17, 1945 is an actor, having spent most of his career performing in Australia. Bruce attended Henderson High School in West Auckland....
has been one of the country's most prominent stage and screen actors since the early 1970s. Mary Coustas
Mary Coustas
Mary Coustas is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian...
was a member of the popular "Wogs Out of Work" team, where she created her Greek-Australian character "Effie", and she co-starred in the popular TV sitcom Acropolis Now
Acropolis Now
Acropolis Now was an Australian sitcom set in a Greek bar of the same name that ran for 63 episodes from 1989 to 1992 on the Seven Network. It was created by Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares, who also starred in the series. They were already quite well known for their comedy...
. David Argue
David Argue
David Argue is an Australian actor. He is most known for his role in the 1993 film Hercules Returns.-Television:*The Restless Years *Winners *Raw Silk *Pirates Island *Cluedo...
was well known from his many live comedy, TV and film appearances. Director David Parker has had a long association with writer-director Nadia Tass
Nadia Tass
Nadia Tass is a film director, producer and actress, originally from Macedonia, northern Greece, who moved to Australia in the 1960s. She began her career as an actress appearing in the television series Prisoner. Ms...
and they have collaborated on many popular films including Malcolm. Hercules Returns
Hercules Returns
Hercules Returns is a 1993 Australian comedy film directed by David Parker, starring David Argue, Michael Carman, Bruce Spence and Mary Coustas. The film has a cult following in Australia and other countries...
is also notable as the last screen credit for veteran actor Frank Thring
Frank Thring
Frank William Thring was an Australian character actor.-Early life:Thring was born in Melbourne and educated at the Melbourne Grammar School. His father, Frank W. Thring, was the head of Efftee Studios, in Melbourne, in the 1920s, and is said to be the inventor of the clapperboard...
(who performed the voice of Zeus) and there are also cameo appearances by Australian film critics David Stratton
David Stratton
David James Stratton is an English- Australian film critic and television personality.-Life and career:Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England in 1939, Stratton was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid filmgoer, where he was taken to the local cinemas regularly...
, Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz AM is an Australian film critic and television personality.-Early life:Pomeranz was born in 1944 in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then newly opened Macquarie University, and the Playwright's Studio at...
and Ivan Hutchinson.
Ironically, the 'real' stars of the film, Des Mangan and Sally Patience, do not appear on screen in the movie and their voice-overs are instead mimed by Argue, Spence and Coustas.
Other screen appearances
Sally Patience has appeared in a number of other screen roles including as a backing singer in the Australian film Billy's Holiday and in the television drama Dog's Head Bay as Dimity Todd.Current work
Sally Patience has since become one of Australia's best known voice-overVoice-over
Voice-over is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations...
artists and she regularly works on major national and local advertising campaigns.