Sign language used in The Tingler - Is it real?
I'm sure many of the current movies out today, in an effort to obtain as much realism as possible, hire consultants to ensure the sign language used in movies is as accurate as any other language used by characters.
However, I'm watching the Vincent Price classic The Tingler and I can't help but feel that the sign language used by the deaf mute at the beginning of the movie was just some crazy hand gestures ad-libbed.
Does anyone know, for sure, if they were using real signs for that part?
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I am watching the movie with my boyfriend, who is fluent in ASL. His younger brother is deaf, so the whole family learned.
It started with "that's actual sign language" and continued with him live translating the conversations.
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According to a United Press International blurb that was run in the Provo Daily Herald and the The Weirton Daily Times in 1959, Judith Evelyn did in fact learn sign language for the movie:
Learns Sign Language HOLLYWOOD -- (UPI) - Judith Evelyn, whose speaking voice is one of the finest in the acting profession, took lessons in sign language for her role as a deaf- mute in Columbia's "The Tingler."
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