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Marni NixonMay 25th, 2015 Marni McEathron Born: Marni Nixon Genre: Classical Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s |
BiographyCalled "the queen of the dubbers" by musical theater historian Kurt Gänzl, soprano singer Marni Nixon enjoyed a lengthy career in film, opera, television, recordings, and the legitimate stage, even though her voice was much more familiar to the mass audience than her face or her name. Her reputation as a singer's singer rests on the series of movie musicals of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s in which she served as a "ghost singer," dubbing in her voice to replace that of such non-singing stars as Margaret O'Brien, Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn. In that capacity, the millions of moviegoers who saw the films and the millions of record buyers who listened to the soundtrack albums of such popular screen efforts as The King and I, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady became familiar with her voice without having any idea who they were hearing. That wasn't only because she was not credited at the time, it was also because of her remarkable versatility, which allowed her, as Gänzl noted, to be equally convincing as "the very English" Anna Leonowens of The King and I, the "Puerto Rican teenager" Maria of West Side Story, and "the cockney Eliza" of My Fair Lady. In fact, her versatility extended much further than that, as demonstrated by Grammy Award nominations for her classical recordings and a successful stint as the hostess of a children's television series.
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