I Could Have Sung All Night

by NIXON, MARNICOLE, STEPHEN

• ISBN13: 9780823099689
• ISBN10: 0823099687
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-08-07
• Publisher: Billboard Books

Summary

Now in paperback! The most celebrated "voice" in Hollywood speaks for herself Everyone knowsMarni Nixon...even if they think they don't. One of the best-loved singing voices in the world, Nixon was the un-credited singing voice for Natalie Wood inWest Side Story, Audrey Hepburn inMy Fair Lady, and Deborah Kerr inThe King and I. She made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at 17 and continued her career with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Stephen Sondheim, Rogers and Hammerstein, and many others. Her inspiring autobiography, packed with anecdotes from six decades of performing, reveals Nixon as a singer, as an actress, as a breast-cancer survivor, and as a woman fighting for artistic recognition. Beloved show-biz icon Nixon sang for Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburnnow she tells her story Entertaining behind-the-scenes celebrity stories from six decades of performing "Read this book!" says Hal Prince

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. She lives in New York City.


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

Table of Contents

List of Photographs	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Overture	p. 1
California, Here They Come!	p. 9
Singing My Own Song	p. 29
All Roads Lead to Vienna	p. 49
The Fabulous Fifties, Part One	p. 64
Deborah and I	p. 84
The Fabulous Fifties, Part Two	p. 101
The West Side Story Story	p. 120
Which Fair Lady?	p. 139
Getting into the Habit	p. 155
Exercising the Ghost	p. 172
Songs of Love and Parting	p. 189
At the Gates of the Emerald City	p. 210
My Angel Network	p. 233
Posterity Is Just Around the Corner	p. 252
Giving Up the Ghost	p. 271
Index	p. 295
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