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R.I.P. Marni Nixon, singing voice for Maria and others

posted 8 years ago by mackjay2
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Her increasing renown helped bring her spectral trade into the light and encouraged her to push for official recognition. “The anonymity didn’t bother me until I sang Natalie Wood’s songs in ‘West Side Story,’ ” Ms. Nixon told The Times in 1967. “Then I saw how important my singing was to the picture. I was giving my talent, and somebody else was taking the credit.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/arts/music/marni-nixon-singer-soprano-dies-86.html?_r=0

[–] eveningstarz 8 years ago

Just heard, what a talent she was.

[–] friendoffilm 8 years ago

I met Marni Nixon, briefly, at the Brattle Theatre, here in Cambridge, MA, just before an evening sing-a-long screening of the film West Side Story at that movie theatre. Marnie Nixon was selling her then newly-published book I Could've Danced All Night , in the lobby of that movie theatre. In a brief conversation with her, I told her that West Side Story is my favorite movie, and she seemed happy about that. It was a pleasure to meet Marni Nixon. Sorry she passed on a little too soon.

She looked considerably younger than her age, too.