"again in the part of Higgins. The casting of Audrey Hepburn instead of Julie Andrews as Eliza was controversial, partly because theatregoers regarded Andrews as perfect for the part and partly because Hepburn's singing voice was dubbed (by Marni Nixon). Jack L. Warner, the head of Warner Bros., which produced the film, wanted ""a star with a great deal of name recognition"", but since Julie Andrews did not have any film experience, he thought a movie with her would not be as successful. (Andrews went on to star in ""Mary Poppins"" that same year for which she won both the"
"Marni Nixon 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 movie musicals. She is now well known as the real singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ""The King and I"", ""West Side Story"", and ""My Fair Lady"", although this was concealed at the time from audiences. Besides her voice work in films, Nixon's varied career included some film roles of her own, television, opera, musicals on Broadway and elsewhere throughout the United States, concerts with major symphony orchestras, and"
"Distinguished Artist Award in New York City. She was also an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota International Women's Music Fraternity. In 2012, Nixon was the recipient of the George Peabody Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Music. Marni Nixon 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 movie musicals. She is now well known as the real singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including ""The King and I"", ""West Side Story"", and ""My Fair Lady"", although this was concealed"
"Matchmaker"". Schwartz was eventually replaced by composer Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel, who wrote ""Honor to Us All"" to replace ""China Doll"". Disney cast American singer and actress Marni Nixon, one of Hollywood's best known ghost singers, as the singing voice of Grandmother Fa, Mulan's paternal grandmother. Nixon received the sheet music for ""Honor to Us All"" to review prior to auditioning for the role. The filmmakers then showed Nixon a drawing of the character, by whose comedic appearance the singer was immediately ""enchanted"", telling herself ""you've just got to give her a voice ... or, in this case,"
"part because producer Jack L. Warner thought Hepburn or Elizabeth Taylor were more ""bankable"" propositions. Hepburn initially asked Warner to give the role to Andrews but was eventually cast. Further friction was created when, although non-singer Hepburn had sung in ""Funny Face"" and had lengthy vocal preparation for the role in ""My Fair Lady"", her vocals were dubbed by Marni Nixon, whose voice was considered more suitable to the role. Hepburn was initially upset and walked off the set when informed. The press further played up the fabricated rivalry between Hepburn and Andrews, when the latter won an Academy Award"
"of My Fair Lady at Drury Lane, when Sam Lewis was musical director. Sam (a viola player) subsequently went to Israel where he still lives, and he remembers Vernon as a real 'gentleman' . In the United States, he is perhaps best known as the singing voice of Josef Locke, who was played by Ned Beatty in the film Hear My Song. Midgley is married to the New Zealand soprano Alexandra Gordon, with one son and one daughter. He teaches voice at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Vernon is featured, along with his sister Maryetta, on the song"
"sections of the film: during ""A Spoonful of Sugar,"" she provided the whistling harmony for the robin, and she was also one of the Pearly singers during ""Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."" David Tomlinson, besides playing Mr. Banks, provided the voice of Mary's talking umbrella and numerous other voice-over parts (including that of Admiral Boom's first mate). During the ""Jolly Holiday"" sequence, the three singing Cockney geese were all voiced by Marni Nixon, a regular aural substitute for actresses with substandard singing voices. Nixon would later provide the singing voice for Hepburn in ""My Fair Lady"" and play one of Andrews' fellow nuns in"
"films ""West Side Story"" (1961) and ""My Fair Lady"" (1964), respectively, as an elderly Chinese woman ""speaks volumes about the desired singing voices of these supposedly diverse new characters."" ""Honor to Us All"" was one of Nixon's final film performances before her death in 2016. The film's use of ""Honor to Us All"" has been described as ""expository"" by ""Billboard""'s Andrew Unterberger. Within the context of ""Mulan"", the song both introduces audiences to the title character while demonstrating some Chinese traditions, revealing that Mulan must initially rely on marriage to ""settle her fate"" at the beginning of the film. A"
"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"". 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. In the 1998 Disney film ""Mulan"", Nixon was the singing voice of ""Grandmother Fa"". She then returned to the stage, touring the United States as Fraulein Schneider in ""Cabaret"" in"
"Grey DeLisle Erin Grey Van Oosbree (born August 24, 1973), credited as Grey DeLisle () and Grey Griffin, is an American voice actress and singer-songwriter. She has done voice acting for numerous animated films, television shows, and video games. Her voice roles include Vicky from ""The Fairly OddParents"", Samantha ""Sam"" Manson from ""Danny Phantom"", Mandy from ""The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy"", Frankie Foster, Duchess, and Goo from ""Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"", Yumi Yoshimura from ""Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi"", Azula from """", Kimiko Tohomiko from ""Xiaolin Showdown"", as well as Lola, Lana, and Lily Loud from ""The Loud"
"in the song. Her musical contribution to ""Honor to Us All"" marked the singer's return to film roles following a lengthy hiatus. ""Mulan"" was also Nixon's first Disney film in 10 years; she had previously performed in the musical film ""Mary Poppins"" (1964). Nixon was eventually joined by Broadway performers Beth Fowler and Lea Salonga, although the three singers never recorded together. The studio enjoyed Nixon's performance so much that they ultimately decided to recast the actress who had been providing Grandmother Fa's speaking voice at the time with someone who sounded more like Nixon, hiring June Foray to provide"
"in the 1995 film ""Nixon"", Patty McCormack in the 2008 film ""Frost/Nixon"" and Nicole Sullivan in the 2009 film ""Black Dynamite"". She was sung by soprano Carolann Page in John Adams' opera ""Nixon in China"" 1987 world premiere in Houston, Texas; a ""New York Times"" critic noted that the performance captured ""the First Lady's shy mannerisms"" while one from the ""Los Angeles Times"" described the subject as the ""chronically demure First Lady"". The part was later sung by Scottish soprano Janis Kelly in the 2011 Metropolitan Opera premiere in New York. This ""New York Times"" critic wrote that Kelly ""was"
"at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. He was elected President of Actors Equity in May 2010 and served until 2015. He is the older brother of voice actor Oliver Wyman. Nick Wyman Nick Wyman (born May 18, 1950) is an American stage, television, and film actor, and is a former President of the Actors' Equity Association. Wyman was born in Portland, Maine. He grew up in Summit, New Jersey and attended Harvard University. Wyman received his big break as Freddy in the 1981 revival of ""My Fair Lady"" which starred original Higgins Sir Rex Harrison. He later created"
"the voice of English actor Rex Harrison, especially his performance in the 1964 musical drama film ""My Fair Lady"". MacFarlane uses his regular speaking voice when playing Brian. MacFarlane also provides the voices for various other recurring and one-time-only characters, most prominently those of the Griffins' neighbor Glenn Quagmire, news anchor Tom Tucker, and Lois' father, Carter Pewterschmidt. Alex Borstein voices Peter's wife Lois Griffin, Asian correspondent Tricia Takanawa, Loretta Brown, and Lois' mother, Barbara Pewterschmidt. Borstein was asked to provide a voice for the pilot while she was working on ""MADtv"". She had not met MacFarlane or seen any"
"musical drama film ""My Fair Lady"". Brian's voice is MacFarlane's regular speaking voice. In addition MacFarlane provides the voice of various recurring and one-time characters, most prominently those of the Griffin's neighbor Glenn Quagmire, news anchor Tom Tucker and Lois' father Carter Pewterschmidt. Alex Borstein voices Lois Griffin, Asian correspondent Tricia Takanawa, Loretta Brown and Lois' mother Barbara Pewterschmidt. Borstein was asked to provide a voice for the pilot while she was working on ""MADtv"". She had not met MacFarlane or seen any artwork and said it was ""really sight unseen"". At the time, she was doing a stage show"
"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. 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. Nixon's career in film started in 1948 when she sang"
"cuts. He calls Anna's songs ""well served"" by Marni Nixon's singing in the 1956 film soundtrack and judges the recording as vocally satisfying; Kenrick describes it as a ""mixed bag"": he is pleased that it includes several songs cut from the film, and he praises Nixon's vocals, but he dislikes the supporting cast and suggests watching the movie instead for its visual splendor. Kenrick prefers the 1964 Lincoln Center cast recording to the earlier ones, especially approving of the performances of Risë Stevens as Anna and Patricia Neway as Lady Thiang. The recording, for the first time, included the narrated"
"Julia Wilson-Dickson Julia Wilson-Dickson (2 August 1949 – 16 October 2015) was a British voice and dialect coach whose students included some of the best known actors in film and theater during her career. Dialect coaches help an actor learn an accent by breaking the accent down into separate components, which can be taught individually. In film, Wilson-Dickson was the dialect coach for Robert de Niro in the 1994 film, ""Mary Shelley's Frankenstein""; Helena Bonham Carter for the 1995 romantic comedy, ""Mighty Aphrodite""; Julianne Moore for ""The End of the Affair"" in 1999; and Glenn Close in the 2011 film,"
"“Harrigan ’n Hart,” “Barnum,” “How Now, Dow Jones,” “Subways Are for Sleeping,” “I Can Get It for You Wholesale,” “The Sound of Music” and “My Fair Lady.” For “My Fair Lady,” Mr. Howard was assistant to the conductor, Franz Allers, with an unusual assignment. He spent many hours in a hotel room with the British actor and nonsinger Rex Harrison, coaching him to speak resonantly through six songs, including “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.” Mr. Howard had some interesting non-Broadway gigs as well, like rearranging Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” for 25 Chinese tap dancers in Steven Spielberg’s 1984 film"
"the speaking voice for the role. Disney had been considered hiring actresses Lauren Bacall and June Havoc to record ""Honor to Us All"" prior to hearing Nixon. The songwriters first based ""Honor to Us All"" on a rough cut they had seen of the scene; the animators eventually synced the animated characters with the singers' voices. Author Jennifer Fleeger wrote in her book ""Mismatched Women: The Siren's Song Through the Machine"" (2014) that the studio's decision to cast Nixon, an American who had previously done similar work as the singing voices of a Puerto Rican and Englishwoman in the musical"
"times, to the strains of Liszt's ""Hungarian Rhapsody"" before the servants sing ""Congratulations, Professor Higgins"". Hepburn's singing was judged inadequate, and she was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who sang all songs except ""Just You Wait"", where Hepburn's voice was left undubbed during the harsh-toned chorus of the song and Nixon sang the melodic bridge section. Hepburn did sing the brief reprise of the song in tears. Some of Hepburn's original vocal performances for the film were released in the 1990s, affording audiences an opportunity to judge whether the dubbing was necessary. Less well known is the dubbing of Jeremy Brett's"
"written a song called ""China Doll"" intended for the scene in which Mulan prepares to meet the Matchmaker. After the songwriter resigned from ""Mulan"" in favor of writing songs for rival studio DreamWorks' ""The Prince of Egypt"" (1998), Schwartz was ultimately replaced with Wilder and Zippel, who wrote ""Honor to Us All"" with which to replace ""China Doll"". Nixon's casting as Grandmother Fa's singing voice ultimately influenced Disney to recast the voice actress who had originally been hired to supply Grandmother Fa's speaking voice with actress June Foray due to closer similarities between Nixon's and Foray's voices. Intended to be"
"to her own vocals and was led to believe that these versions would be used, although music supervisors Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green had already decided to use Marni Nixon's voice. Wood's singing voice is only heard during the reprise of the song ""Somewhere"" when Tony dies. Though Nixon had recorded the songs in the same orchestra sessions as Wood, she had to re-record them to synch with Wood's filmed performances. Even the one song for which Wood had lip-synched to Nixon's voice, ""One Hand, One Heart"", had to be recorded again because Wood's lip-synching was unsatisfactory. When Marni Nixon"
"in the 1984 Cameron Mackintosh revival of ""Oliver!"" with Ron Moody and Patti LuPone, and as Lady Diss/Mrs. Brown in the 1986 first American production of ""Me and My Girl"" with Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett and Jane Connell. She also appeared in an Off-Off-Broadway cabaret revue, ""Don't Cry, Baby, It's Only a Movie"", with lyrics by Fran Landesman and music by Jason McAuliffe. By the 1990s, she had retired to Venice, Florida where she still resides. Elizabeth Larner Elizabeth Larner (born 1931) is a British actress and a singer with a powerful soprano voice. While her main career was the"
"Megan Hollingshead Megan T.D. Hollingshead (born September 22, 1968), also known as Karen Thompson or Kelli Kassidi, is an American voice actress, best known for her roles as Nurse Joy in ""Pokémon"", Mai Valentine in ""Yu-Gi-Oh!"", Shizune in ""Naruto"", Caster in ""Fate/stay night"", Rangiku Matsumoto in ""Bleach"", and Re-l Mayer in ""Ergo Proxy"". Best known for her anime dubbing work, Megan's most famous roles include Nurse Joy, Cassidy in the first 6 seasons of the ""Pokémon"" anime series and Mai Valentine in the first 3 seasons of ""Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters"". She also lent her voice to the Enix role-playing game"
"The Divine Lady The Divine Lady is a 1929 American Vitaphone sound film with a synchronized musical score, sound effects, and some synchronized singing, but no spoken dialogue. It stars Corinne Griffith and tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. It featured the theme song ""Lady Divine"", with lyrics by Richard Kountz and music by Nathaniel Shilkret, which became a popular hit in 1929 and was recorded by numerous artists, such as Shilkret, Frank Munn, Ben Selvin (as the Cavaliers), Smith Ballew, Adrian Schubert, Sam Lanin, and Bob Haring. The film was adapted by"
"woman whose voice they knew so well. In 1967, she was the singing voice of Princess Serena in a live action and animated version of ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" on NBC. 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. Nixon taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita from 1969 to 1971 and joined the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, Santa"
"Grey DeLisle filmography Grey DeLisle, also credited as Grey Griffin, has done voice acting for numerous animated films, television shows, and video games. Her voice roles include Vicky from ""The Fairly OddParents"", Samantha ""Sam"" Manson from ""Danny Phantom"", Mandy from ""The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy"", Frankie Foster, Duchess, and Goo from ""Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"", Yumi Yoshimura from ""Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi"", Azula from """", Kimiko Tohomiko from ""Xiaolin Showdown"", as well as Lola, Lana, and Lily Loud from ""The Loud House"", and Prince Puppycorn from ""Unikitty!."" She has been the voice of Daphne Blake in the"
"just a different chorus, orchestra and conductor: Edo de Waart led the Chorus and Orchestra of St. Luke's. ""Gramophone's Good DVD Guide"" praised the singing, noting James Maddalena's ""aptly volatile Nixon"" and Trudy Ellen Craney's admirable delivery of Chiang Ch'ing's coloratura passages. This recording also received the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition in the Classical category. It was reissued in 2011 to coincide with the opera's production at the Metropolitan Opera. The Denver live recording on Naxos has Marin Alsop conducting the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Opera Colorado Chorus, with Robert Orth as Nixon, Maria Kanyova as Pat"
"Elizabeth Larner Elizabeth Larner (born 1931) is a British actress and a singer with a powerful soprano voice. While her main career was the musical theatre, appearing both in London's West End and on Broadway, she was a seemingly unlikely, but inspired, choice to play Ammonia in the BBC situation comedy ""Up Pompeii!"" - a role she made her own. She later appeared in ""The Two Ronnies"", supporting Ronnie Barker as ""Piggy Malone"" and Ronnie Corbett as ""Charley Farley"" in the 1981-2 comic detective mystery serial ""Band of Slaves"". Elizabeth Larner appeared on television from the mid-1950s. Her singing gained"
"2008, she voiced the character of Grandma Winifred Fletcher in the American Disney animated television series ""Phineas and Ferb"". She also voiced Lady Cecelia in Familias Regnant universe Heris Serrano trilogy graphic audio book. She also provides the voice of Cosmo's mother Mama Cosma in the Nickelodeon animated series ""The Fairly OddParents"". Jane Carr Ellen Jane Carr (born 13 August 1950) is an English actress. She is well known for the voice role of ""Pud'n"" on the animated ""The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"" (US, 2001–2007). She also played a character called ""Pudding"" in the Jilly Cooper-penned BBC sitcom"
"Mary Kay Bergman Mary Kay Bergman (June 5, 1961 – November 11, 1999), initially credited on ""South Park"" as Shannen Cassidy, was an American voice actress and voice-over teacher. Born in Los Angeles, California, U.S., she had an interest in fantasy and animation early in her life. She acted in plays in high school and also studied theater at University of California, Los Angeles. After unsuccessful acting jobs, she was considering a career in the Air Force, when ""going wild"" on karaoke at a housewarming party changed her life. In 1989, she began voicing the Disney character Snow White. Bergman"
"Nonnie Griffin Nonnie Griffin (born in 1933 in Canada) is a Canadian actress and voice actress. She studied at the Toronto Conservatory in her native land, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and even with famed mime artist Marcel Marceau. Her stage work includes playing Mrs. Rafi in the original Toronto production of ""The Sea"" and a 10-month run as the title character in ""Hello, Dolly!"" at the Limelight Dinner Theatre in Toronto in 1990. Apart from being a veteran of the stage, her voice over work includes Nelvana's """", and playing Harmony Bear in 1986's """". She"