She was natural Marni McEathron within Altadena, California and began singing at a immature age in unison.

Her dubbing career began while she dubbed a singing voice of Margaret O'Brien in The Secret Garden. She performed a voices of angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc and provided Marilyn Monroe with a few top notes in her recording of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from either Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

She sang for Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember and in The King and I, but, in a select few tracks of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, Kerr's and Nixon's voices were skillfully intertwined.

She did all the singing of Maria, Natalie Wood, in the film version of West Side Story and also had to sing a bit of area of the score of Anita, Rita Moreno, sharing the batch using co-dubber Betty W& and Moreno herself. Around areThe of the song "A Boy Like That/I Have a Love", she could profits become doing the duet sustaining herself.

She gained occasionally ill fame after she sang for Audrey Hepburn in the film of My Fair Lady as news-eager journalists ripped apart the customary veil of secrecy. This fact is said to exist as a stimulator of Hepburn failing potentially for nominative for an Academy Award for the demanding role.

Nixon eventually appeared on the screen, singing for herself in the film of The Sound of Music as part of the chorus of nuns. Julie Andrews lost a role of Eliza Doolittle to Hepburn, however won the Oscar for Mary Poppins and started her acceptance speech locution: "Hello! I'm Marni Nixon". Once it foremost met on the placed of The Healthy of Music, she greeted Nixon using a hearty shake & the line: "I really love your work!" when a matter of fact, it got already been co-fellow worker in a song, as Nixon sonant one of the trio of geese in the cartoon sequence of Mary Poppins.

Once Hollywood musical comedy gave her less functiinside, she began to perform on stage, when Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and as Frauleinside Schneider in Cabaret. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she hosted a youngsters's television program around Seattle on KOMO channel 4 known as [http://www.seattlehistory.org/av_files/boomerang.mp3 Boomerang]. In the 1990s, she lent her voice to the Disney animated feature Mulan and replaced Joan Roberts as Heidi Schiller in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

Around her have voice, she has as well recorded songs of Jerome Kern and Arnold Schönberg.

One of her threesome married man, Ernest Gold, composed the theme song to the moving picture Exodus and to television's Mad About You. It experienced trinity kids together, one of whom is the singer & songster Andrew Gold ("Lonely Boy" & "Thank You For Being a Friend").

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