Marni Nixon

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Margaret Nixon McEathron (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016), also known as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in film musicals.

Nixon's career has included appearances in major symphony orchestras, Natalie Wood in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, among other musical roles, although her names were not revealed until the films were released.

Early life

Richard Nixon and Margaret Elsa (née Wittke) McEathron was born in Altadena, California, and was involved in choruses from an early age. Nixon was also a child film actor who performed solos with the Roger Wagner Chorale. Vera Schwarz, Carl Ebert, Boris Goldovsky, and Sarah Caldwell followed her as she began to study singing and opera with, among other things, Sarah Caldwell. She made her Hollywood Bowl solo debut in Carmina Burana in 1947, having adopted the stage name "Marni Nixon." Conductor Leopold Stokowski conducted her.

Personal life and death

In 1950, Nixon married Ernest Gold, the first of her three husbands, who composed the theme song to the film Exodus. They had three children, including singer and songwriter Andrew Gold. In 1969, the two families split. She was married to Lajos "Fritz" Fenster from 1971 to 1975, as well as Woodwind player Albert Block from 1983 to his death in 2015.

Nixon battled breast cancer in 1985 and 2000, but the disease in New York on July 24, 2016, age 86, is a 86.

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Career

Nixon's film career began in 1948 when she sang the angels of Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc (1948). She did her first dubbing work in 1948's Big City and then 1949's The Secret Garden, when she gave 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). She appeared with Ida Lupino in Jennifer in 1953. In 1954, Nixon appeared in The Girl in Pink Tights on Broadway.

Kerr broke with Hollywood tradition by publicly acknowledging Nixon's singing in 1956. She worked closely with Deborah Kerr to provide the actor's singing voice for Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. In An Affair to Remember, Nixon used Kerr again to smear her voice in 1957. She also appeared on Boy on a Dolphin for Sophia Loren that year. Janet Leigh's voice in Pepe was on-screen chorus in Can-Can in 1960, she dubbed her voice in Pepe and appeared on-screen chorus in Can-Can. The studio maintained her presence on the film (as the singing voice of Natalie Wood's Maria) a mystery from Wood, and Nixon sluggishly condemned Rita Moreno's singing in the film's "Tonight" quintet. She begged the film's producers for direct royalties from her film work, but Leonard Bernstein contractually gave her 1/4 of one percent of her personal royalties from the film. She was granted royalties from the sales of her album and spoke out against the rights of ghost artists in a court case. In 1962, she sang Wood's high notes in Gypsy. She appeared on My Fair Lady in 1964 with Audrey Hepburn, the film's female lead, to perform Eliza's songs. Time magazine named her "The Ghostess with the Mostest" because of her uncredited dubbing work in these films. Despite this, the public knew Nixon's identity; she appeared on To Tell the Truth the same year, where two members of the commission were fooled.

Nixon appeared in "Improvisation sur Mallarmé I" from Pli selon pli by Pierre Boulez in 1960, and in 1961, performing three "Songs of the Auvergne" by Joseph Canteloube, she made guest appearances at Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, including 1960, when he performed "Improvisation survived." In 1964, Nixon played Eliza in a revival of the musical at New York City Center before My Fair Lady was introduced in theatres. In the 1965 film The Sound of Music, Nixon's first onscreen appearance was as Sister Sophia. Director Robert Wise adds that viewers were now able to hear the woman's voice in the film's DVD commentary. On NBC, she appeared as Princess Serena in a live action and animated version of Jack and the Beanstalk in 1967. Nixon appeared in the 1960s, but also later and later, specializing in contemporary music as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, 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 then joined the faculty of the Music Academy of the West in 1980, where she taught for many years. Boomerang, a television show host on KOMO-TV channel 4, won four Emmy Awards as best actress, appeared on variety shows and as a guest star in prime time television series in the late 1970s and 1980s, hosted a children's television show in Seattle. In The Marriage of Figaro, Zerbinetta in Ariadne on Naxos, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, both Blonde and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus der Serail, Violetta in La Périchole and Philine in Mignon, were among Nixon's opera repertory. Among her opera appearances were performances at the Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. She appeared as an oratorio and concert soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, among other things.

Nixon also toured with Liberace and Victor Borge, later in her own cabaret performances. She appeared on stage in 1984 as Edna Off-Broadway in Taking My Turn, directed by Gary William Friedman, receiving a Drama Desk Award. She also appeared in Opal (1992), and she appeared in I Think I Do in 1997. Nixon released songs by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and other classical composers under her own name, beginning in the 1980s. She was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Classical Achievement, Vocal Soloist, one for her Schönberg album and another for her Copland project.

Nixon was the singing voice of "Grandmother Fa" in the 1998 Disney film Mulan. Fraulein Schneider, who appeared in Cabaret in 1997-1998, returned to the stage, touring the United States as Fraulein Schneider. She has appeared on more than 50 albums. In 1999, she appeared in Mrs. Wilson's debut in the premiere of Ballymore, a Richard Wargo opera at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was taped for PBS. She appeared in The King and I and The Sound of Music productions in regional theatre and Off-Broadway. She also started to teach voice and judge vocal competitions.

Aunt Kate in James Joyce's The Dead, in 2000, after nearly a half century away, returned to Broadway as Aunt Kate. In the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies in 2001, Nixon named Joan Roberts as Heidi Schiller. In a 2002 film in Los Angeles, Eunice Miller appeared in 70, Girls, 70. In 2003, she appeared on Broadway again as a replacement for Guido's mother in the role of Nine's revival. I Could Have Sung All Night, her autobiography, was released in 2006. In the role of Mrs. Higgins, she appeared on Cameron Mackintosh's North American Tour in 2008. Frau Direktor Kirschner appeared in the 2009 Encores, then the actress appeared as Frau Direktor Kirschner. The musical Music in the Air at New York City Center is a production.

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