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Marni
Nixon - Clips
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Theatre West
alum Marni Nixon talking about her career, with film clips featuring
her voice dubbing for Natalie Wood, Deborah Kerr and Audrey Hepburn
in West Side Story, The King and I and My Fair Lady. Also clips
from Mulan, Mary Poppins, and a TV appearance with Liberace. |
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Marni
Nixon - To Tell The Truth Appearance
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Theatre West
alum Marni Nixon on "To Tell The Truth".
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Many
of the greatest Hollywood movie musicals of all time share one thing
one in common: The glorious singing voice of Marni Nixon. It
is her singing that you hear for Natalie Wood in "West Side
Story,” for Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady,”
for Deborah Kerr in "The King and I” and "An
Affair to Remember,” for Margaret O’Brien in "The
Secret Garden,” for Marie Windsor in "Dakota Lil,”
singing the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes,” and appearing on camera herself (as Sister Sophia)
in "The Sound of Music.” You also hear the voice of
Marni Nixon singing as animated characters in Disney film classics like
"Mary Poppins” and "Mulan.”
A native
of Altadena, Ms. Nixon began as a child actress, sang with the Roger
Wagner Chorale, and in her late teens appeared in a succession of plays
at the Pasadena Playhouse. Hollywood beckoned, as she became the greatest
"ghost-singer” ever in the history of the medium.
She
has also enjoyed a busy stage career in New York, and was nominated
for a Drama Desk Award for her role in the off-Broadway show "Taking
My Turn.” Her Broadway shows include "Nine,”
"Follies,” "James Joyce’s The Dead,”
and "The Girl in Pink Tights.”
Trained
in opera, Ms. Nixon also sang for the great figures of the classical
music world, from Arnold Schonberg to Igor Stravinsky to Leonard Bernstein.
Bernstein championed her cause, offering to relinquish some of his own
compensation when she was initially excluded from the royalty pool of
the soundtrack album of "West Side Story,” itself
the best-selling LP of all time until the 1984 release of Michael Jackson’s
"Thriller.”
Long
based in New York, this former Theatre West member returns home to its
stage for a long weekend of four performances in her very own show,
"Marni Nixon: The Voice of Hollywood.” The multimedia
show will include a backdrop of clips from Ms. Nixon’s famous
films, as she sings and evokes the greatest moments of movie musical
history.
This
will be an exclusive opportunity to see Ms. Nixon in her only scheduled
Los Angeles area concert appearances for Fall, 2006.
Press/media
contact: Philip Sokoloff, (626) 683-9205
