As the era of big, traditional movie musicals dried up, though, so did Nixon's film career. Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in such classic movie musicals as West Side Story, The King and I and My Fair Lady, has died. "I heard later that Natalie Wood was very upset and felt betrayed by the powers that be," Nixon wrote. Nixon, who was initially uncredited for her work, early on resented the dubbing work but later came to terms with it. Such was the case with the 1956 hit The King and I, in which filmmakers dubbed Deborah Kerr's voice with Nixon's.

Source: CBC News July 25, 2016 17:26 UTC