Dubbed in Rome

  Nina Rootes (1925-2016), also known as Nina Golding, was a British voice dubbing actress, sync assistant, script adapter, literary translator and author who was active on the English dubbing scene in Rome from 1959 to 1961, lending her voice primarily to parts as ingénues or damsels in distress. Despite the fact that Nina’s time in the dubbing business was relatively short-lived and that many of the films she worked on are currently not available anywhere in English, her career is still very much worthy of closer examination, not least because of the many detailed recollections she shares in her autobiographical book Adventures in the Movie Biz (2013), an endlessly fascinating first-hand account of the inner workings of the Roman film and dubbing industry of the early 1960s. Born on November 29, 1925 in Hythe, Kent, England, her birth name was Nellie Jean Golding, but she was known simply as Nina Golding. Little is known about Nina’s early life and she doesn’t elaborate on t...