Wednesday, July 27, 2016

R.I.P.

Marni Nixon - who??  You may well ask, but if you were enchanted by Deborah Kerr's singing in The King And I, or that of Natalie Wood in West Side Story, or Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (to name but a few) then you were being enchanted by the voice of Marni Nixon.  Known by some as "the ghost with the most" she made a career out of dubbing the singing voices of stars whose real voices weren't up to it.  Generally uncredited, she lived her professional life in the shadows.  She has died at the age of 86 and her story deserves to be better known.

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