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Marni Nixon

Marni Nixon (born 22 February 1930), is a singer whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in movies earned her the soubriquet "The Ghostess with the Mostess".

She was born Marni McEathron in Altadena, California, and began singing at a young age in choruses.

Her dubbing career began when she dubbed the voice of Margaret O'Brien in The Secret Garden. She dubbed the voices of angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc.

She provided the musical voice of Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember and in The King and I.

One of her three husbands, Ernest Gold, composed the theme song to the movie Exodus and to television's Mad for You. They had three children together.

She sang for Natalie Wood in the film of West Side Story, and also one song for Rita Moreno (in one scene, she is effectively doing a duet with herself). She sang for Audrey Hepburn in the film of My Fair Lady. She sang for herself in the film of The Sound of Music, as one of the nuns.

She also appeared doing her own performances on stage, as as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and as Fraulein Schnider in Cabaret, and lent her voice to Mulan. She replaced Joan Roberts as Heidi Schiller in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

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