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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A person who appears disguised in a film as a replacement for another actor or person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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History
Coined by film director Sam Raimi in reference to Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed.
