AUDIO: Memories From Marni Nixon's Autobiography Co-Author, Stephen Cole
As reported by BroadwayWorld, beloved singer/actor Marni Nixon died from breast cancer this past Sunday. Though she had a full career on the musical stage, Nixon was best known for dubbing the singing voices of many of Hollywood's non-singing stars who were cast in movie musicals, including Deborah Kerr (THE KING AND I), Natalie Wood (WEST SIDE STORY) and Audrey Hepburn (MY FAIR LADY). She was 86.
Though movie producers forbade Nixon from talking publicly about her work, she prominently displayed her co-author Stephen Cole's name on the cover of her autobiography, "I Could Have Sung All Night."
In the WNYC interview below, Cole describes writing the book as eighteen months of therapy sessions, where he put her on the couch and just let her talk. Cole talks about Nixon's love of teaching, the time she had to sing a duet with herself and the title for the book the publisher rejected.
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