I Could Have Sung All Night

by NIXON, MARNICOLE, STEPHEN

• ISBN13: 9780823083657
• ISBN10: 0823083659
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Billboard Books

Summary

The most celebrated "voice" in Hollywood speaks for herself! 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 inWest Side Story, Audrey Hepburn inMy Fair Lady, and Deborah Kerr inThe 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'sLaw & Order SVU, tours with her own stage show, and teaches master classes in voice.I Could Have Sung All Nightreveals the woman behind the screen in a frank, funny biography that is as remarkable as the woman whose story it tells. Beloved show-biz icon Nixon dubbed the singing of Natalie Wood inWest Side Story, Deborah Karr inThe King and I, and Audrey Hepburn inMy Fair Ladyshe now tells her story for the first time Entertaining behind-the-scenes celebrity stories from six decades of performing Nostalgia appeal, plus insider's account of the music and film worlds of the 20th century Breast cancer survivor Nixon is an inspiration to millions of women

Author Biography

Marni Nixon is renowned as the singing voice of many of Hollywood’s greatest stars. On stage, she has starred in Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Opal, Taking My Turn, and James Joyce’s The Dead. The winner of four Emmy awards for the children’s program Boomerang and the star of her own one-woman show (also called Marni Nixon: The Voice of Hollywood), she lives in New York City.

Stephen Cole wrote That Book About That Girl, a companion to the Marlo Thomas television series. As a librettist and lyricist, his musicals include The Night of the Hunter, After the Fair, Dodsworth, and many others. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
FOREWORD	xi
OVERTURE	1	(8)
Chapter One CALIFORNIA, HERE THEY COME!	9	(20)
Chapter Two SINGING MY OWN SONG	29	(20)
Chapter Three ALL ROADS LEAD TO VIENNA	49	(15)
Chapter Four THE FABULOUS FIFTIES, PART ONE	64	(20)
Chapter Five DEBORAH AND I	84	(17)
Chapter Six THE FABULOUS FIFTIES, PART TWO	101	(19)
Chapter Seven THE WEST SIDE STORY STORY	120	(19)
Chapter Eight WHICH FAIR LADY?	139	(16)
Chapter Nine GETTING INTO THE HABIT	155	(17)
Chapter Ten EXERCISING THE GHOST	172	(17)
Chapter Eleven SONGS OF LOVE AND PARTING	189	(21)
Chapter Twelve AT THE GATES OF THE EMERALD CITY	210	(23)
Chapter Thirteen MY ANGEL NETWORK	233	(19)
Chapter Fourteen POSTERITY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER	252	(19)
Chapter Fifteen GIVING UP THE GHOST	271	(24)
INDEX	295