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Marni Nixon (Margaret Nixon McEathron) was born on 22 February, 1930 in Altadena, California, U.S., is an American singer and actress (1930–2016). Discover Marni Nixon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Margaret Nixon McEathron
Occupation Singer, actress
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 22 February 1930
Birthday 22 February
Birthplace Altadena, California, U.S.
Date of death 24 July, 2016
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Marni Nixon Height, Weight & Measurements

At 86 years old, Marni Nixon height is 5' 4" (1.63 m) .

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Height 5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Who Is Marni Nixon's Husband?

Her husband is Ernest Gold (m. 1950-1969) Lajos Fenster (m. 1971-1975) Albert Block (m. 1983-2015)

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Husband Ernest Gold (m. 1950-1969) Lajos Fenster (m. 1971-1975) Albert Block (m. 1983-2015)
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Children 3, including Andrew Gold

Marni Nixon Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Marni Nixon worth at the age of 86 years old? Marni Nixon’s income source is mostly from being a successful Soundtrack. She is from United States. We have estimated Marni Nixon's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Soundtrack

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1930

Margaret Nixon McEathron (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016), known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and Ghost (singer) for featured actresses in musical films.

She was the singing voice of leading actresses on the soundtracks of several musicals, including Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, although her roles were concealed from audiences when the films were released.

Several of the songs she dubbed appeared on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.

Besides her voice work in films, Nixon's career included roles of her own in film, television, opera and musicals on Broadway and elsewhere throughout the United States, performances in concerts with major symphony orchestras, and recordings.

Born in Altadena, California, to Charles Nixon and Margaret Elsa (née Wittke) McEathron, Nixon was a child film actress who also played the violin and began singing at an early age in choruses, including performing solos with the Roger Wagner Chorale.

She went on to study singing and opera with, among others, Vera Schwarz, Carl Ebert, Boris Goldovsky and Sarah Caldwell.

1947

In 1947, having adopted the stage name "Marni Nixon", she made her Hollywood Bowl solo debut in Carmina Burana with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductor Leopold Stokowski.

1948

Nixon's career in film started in 1948 when she sang the voices of the angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc (1948).

The same year, she did her first dubbing work when she provided Margaret O'Brien's singing voice in 1948's Big City and then 1949's The Secret Garden.

1950

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).

1953

Also in 1953, she sang for Ida Lupino in Jennifer.

1954

Nixon appeared on Broadway in 1954 in The Girl in Pink Tights.

1956

In 1956, she worked closely with Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I; Kerr broke with Hollywood convention by publicly crediting Nixon's singing.

1957

In 1957 Nixon again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in An Affair to Remember.

That year, she also sang for Sophia Loren in Boy on a Dolphin.

1960

In 1960, she dubbed Janet Leigh's voice in Pepe and had an on-screen chorus role in Can-Can.

Especially in the 1960s, but also earlier and later, Nixon made concert appearances, specializing in contemporary music as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, and gave recitals at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Town Hall in New York City.

1961

In 1961's West Side Story, the studio kept her work on the film (as the singing voice of Natalie Wood's Maria) a secret from Wood, and Nixon also dubbed Rita Moreno's singing in the film's "Tonight" quintet.

She asked the film's producers for, but did not receive, direct royalties from her work on the film, but Leonard Bernstein contractually gave her ¼ of one percent (0.25%) of his personal royalties from it.

After a court case, she received royalties from sales of the soundtrack album and spoke out for the rights of ghost singers.

Nixon made guest appearances with Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, including in 1960, singing "Improvisation sur Mallarmé I" from Pli selon pli by Pierre Boulez, and on April 9, 1961, in a program entitled "Folk Music in the Concert Hall", singing three "Songs of the Auvergne" by Joseph Canteloube.

1962

In 1962, she also sang Wood's high notes in Gypsy.

1964

For My Fair Lady in 1964, she again worked with the female lead of the film, Audrey Hepburn, to perform the songs of Hepburn's character Eliza.

Because of her uncredited dubbing work in these films, Time magazine called her "The Ghostess with the Mostest".

Nevertheless, the public did not know Nixon's face; she appeared on To Tell the Truth the same year, where two members of the panel were fooled.

Before My Fair Lady was released in theatres in 1964, Nixon played Eliza in a revival of the musical at New York City Center.

1965

Nixon's first onscreen appearance was as Sister Sophia in the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

In the DVD commentary to the film, director Robert Wise comments that audiences were finally able to see the woman whose voice they knew so well.

1967

In 1967, she was the singing voice of Princess Serena in a live action and animated version of Jack and the Beanstalk on NBC.

1969

Nixon taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Montecito from 1969 to 1971 and joined the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, in 1980, where she taught for many years.

1970

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she hosted a children's television show in Seattle on KOMO-TV channel 4 called Boomerang, winning four Emmy Awards as best actress, and made numerous other television appearances on variety shows and as a guest star in prime time series.

Nixon's opera repertory included Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, both Blonde and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Violetta in La traviata, the title role in La Périchole and Philine in Mignon.

Her opera credits included performances at Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera and the Tanglewood Music Festival among others.

In addition to giving recitals, she appeared as an oratorio and concert soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra among others.

Nixon also toured with Liberace and Victor Borge and later in her own cabaret shows.

1980

Under her own name, beginning in the 1980s, Nixon recorded songs by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and various classical composers.

She was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist, one for her Schönberg album and one for her Copland album.

1984

On stage, in 1984, she originated the role of Edna Off-Broadway in Taking My Turn, composed by Gary William Friedman, receiving a nomination for a Drama Desk Award.

1992

She also originated the role of Sadie McKibben in Opal (1992), and she had a 1997 film role as Aunt Alice in I Think I Do.

1998

In the 1998 Disney film Mulan, Nixon was the singing voice of "Grandmother Fa".