Marni NIXON in video To Tell the Truth

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Side note: I had assumed back when that Orson BEAN was a Lib. Then it turns out that he became father-in-law to wingnut jerk (redundant?!1) Andrew BREITBART, although the relationship doesn't supply actual evidence of whatever BEAN's politics are.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/25/remembering-marni-nixon-the-invisible-voice-of-my-fair-lady-west-side-story-and-the-king-and-i.html
[font size=5]Remembering Marni Nixon, the Invisible Voice of ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘West Side Story,’ and ‘The King and I’[/font]

.... The insistence on casting marquee A-list names in challenging musical roles certainly hasn’t changed. If anything it’s become more prevalent, and so you have Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp singing Sondheim, or Beyoncé starring in Dreamgirls. Dubbing, however, has become a strictly forbidden practice. Perhaps we can blame Milli Vanilli for that—at least for the fact that we all had to listen to Pierce Brosnan sing in Mamma Mia.

In fact, the resistance to dubbing and even vocal sweetening has become so strong that Tom Hooper had all of his actors sing their numbers live for his 2012 Les Misérables film. The move had mixed results. It led to Anne Hathaway winning a much-deserved Oscar. It also gave us Russell Crowe’s vocal performance, a sound reminiscent to the mass murder of feral cats. ....

In NPR’s remembrance of Nixon, Stephen Cole, the co-author of her autobiography I Could’ve Sung All Night, remembers when Nixon stepped out of her car onto the red carpet for the premiere of The Sound of Music. It’s the only film she appeared on-screen in, in a small role as one of the “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” nuns.

“She got out of her car with her red hair and they all screamed, and then they looked at her and said: ‘Oh, it’s nobody!’” Cole says. If only they knew.

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1. Cool story.

I knew those voices had been dubbed but didn't know it was all the same woman. Pretty amazing.



Weird about Orson Bean. Didn't know his son-in-law was brietbart so I did a little lunch time googling. According to wikipedia, "Orson Bean has been a regular guest on the Dennis Miller radio show,"

And this from Breitbart a few years ago:

My father-in-law, Orson Bean, an author, comedian and actor, was once blacklisted as a Communist back in the '50s. Ed Sullivan called him to say he could no longer book him on the show. Fifty years later, and after a sharp ideological metamorphosis, Orson says it's harder now to be an open conservative on a Hollywood set than it was back then to be a Communist.

http://www.latimes.com/la-op-dustup27sep27-story.html