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A Memoir
Billboard Books
September 2006
On Sale: September 6, 2006
288 pages ISBN: 0823083659 EAN: 9780823083657 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
*The most celebrated "voice" in Hollywood speaks for
herself!
* Beloved show-biz icon Nixon dubbed songs for Natalie Wood
and Audrey Hepburn--now she tells her story for the first
time
* Entertaining behind-the-scenes celebrity stories from six
decades of performing Everyone knows Marni Nixon...even if they think they don’t.
One of the best-known and best-loved singing voices in the
world, Nixon dubbed songs for Natalie Wood in West Side
Story, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, and Deborah Kerr in
The King and I. She was the voice of Hollywood’s leading
ladies, arriving in filmland after a debut with the Los
Angeles Philharmonic at 17 and continuing her career with
Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Stephen
Sondheim, Rogers and Hammerstein, and many others. Her
inspiring autobiography reveals Nixon as a singer, an
actress, and a woman fighting for artistic recognition.
Today, a survivor of breast cancer, she works on Broadway
and television’s Law & Order SVU, tours with her own stage
show, and teaches master classes in voice. Marni Nixon: The
Voice of Hollywood reveals the woman behind the screen is
revealed, in a frank, funny biography that is as remarkable
as the woman whose story it tells.
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