Marni Nixon - Hollywood's most famous 'ghost voice' - dead at the age of 86

By Michael Idato
Updated July 27 2016 - 9:43am, first published July 26 2016 - 10:44am
Incredible career ... Hollywood 'ghost singer' Marni Nixon has died in New York at the age of 86 after losing her fight with breast cancer.  Photo: Hiroyuki Ito / Getty Images
Incredible career ... Hollywood 'ghost singer' Marni Nixon has died in New York at the age of 86 after losing her fight with breast cancer. Photo: Hiroyuki Ito / Getty Images
<i>I Feel Pretty</i> ... Nixon's voice was used to dub over Natalie Wood in <i>West Side Story</i> (1961).
<i>I Feel Pretty</i> ... Nixon's voice was used to dub over Natalie Wood in <i>West Side Story</i> (1961).
Marni Nixon sang Audrey Hepburn's parts in <i>My Fair Lady</i> (1964).
Marni Nixon sang Audrey Hepburn's parts in <i>My Fair Lady</i> (1964).
Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in <i>The King and I'</i> (1956), for whom Marni Nixon also provided her voice.
Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in <i>The King and I'</i> (1956), for whom Marni Nixon also provided her voice.

For a generation of film audiences, the iconic Hollywood musicals were loved for the singing voices of actresses such as Deborah Kerr, in The King and I, Audrey Hepburn, in My Fair Lady, and Natalie Wood, in West Side Story.

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