Title: Marni Nixon
Content: Marni Nixon Margaret Nixon McEathron (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016), known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is now well known as the real singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including "The King and I", "West Side Story", and "My Fair Lady", although this was concealed at the time from audiences. Besides her voice work in films, Nixon's varied career included some film roles of her own, television, opera, musicals on Broadway and elsewhere throughout the United States, concerts with major symphony orchestras, and

Title: Marni Nixon
Content: the voices of the angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in "Joan of Arc" (1948). The same year, she did her first dubbing work when she provided Margaret O'Brien's singing voice in 1948's "Big City" and then 1949's "The Secret Garden". She sang for Jeanne Crain in "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1950) and dubbed Marilyn Monroe's high notes in "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953). Also in 1953, she sang for Ida Lupino in "Jennifer". Nixon appeared on Broadway in 1954 in "The Girl in Pink Tights". In 1956, she worked closely with Deborah Kerr to

Title: Marni Nixon
Content: People's Concerts", including in 1960, singing "Improvisation sur Mallarmé I" from "Pli selon pli" by Pierre Boulez, and on April 9, 1961, in a program entitled "Folk Music in the Concert Hall", singing three "Songs of the Auvergne" by Joseph Canteloube. Before "My Fair Lady" was released in theatres in 1964, Nixon played Eliza in a revival of the musical at New York City Center. Nixon's first onscreen appearance was as Sister Sophia in the 1965 film "The Sound of Music". In the DVD commentary to the film, director Robert Wise comments that audiences were finally able to see the

Title: Marni Nixon
Content: woman whose voice they knew so well. In 1967, she was the singing voice of Princess Serena in a live action and animated version of "Jack and the Beanstalk" on NBC. Especially in the 1960s, but also earlier and later, Nixon made concert appearances, specializing in contemporary music as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, and gave recitals at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Town Hall in New York City. Nixon taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita from 1969 to 1971 and joined the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, Santa

Title: My Fair Lady (film)
Content: times, to the strains of Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" before the servants sing "Congratulations, Professor Higgins". Hepburn's singing was judged inadequate, and she was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who sang all songs except "Just You Wait", where Hepburn's voice was left undubbed during the harsh-toned chorus of the song and Nixon sang the melodic bridge section. Hepburn did sing the brief reprise of the song in tears. Some of Hepburn's original vocal performances for the film were released in the 1990s, affording audiences an opportunity to judge whether the dubbing was necessary. Less well known is the dubbing of Jeremy Brett's

Question: Whose voice did Marni Nixon dub in the classic My Fair Lady?
Answer: Audrey Hepburn