YOU'D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO: THE LETTERS OF PAUL "BUDDY" FREES AND ANNELLE FREES (paperback)

Paul Frees was arguably the greatest voice actor who ever lived. You have heard his voice in your home more often than any other guest. He was the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and the voice of the Little Green Sprout on the Green Giant vegetable commercials. You heard him in movies, dubbing Humphrey Bogart’s failing voice in the dying actor’s final film, The Harder They Fall(1956), dubbing most of Tony Curtis’ falsetto voice as Josephine opposite Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959), and many other major films. You’ve also heard Paul's voice on your vacations at Disneyland and Walt Disney World as the unseen Ghost Host in the Haunted Mansion attraction and many other voices you hear within Disney theme parks.   Paul’s vast skill of accents, four-octave voice, and sense of humor prevailed over many a cartoon, film, trailer, radio show, and TV program. He was known as “The Man of a Thousand Voices.”   In the 1930s, Paul appeared in Vaudevil