Marni Nixon, the singer whose voice can be heard filling in for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, has died aged 86, according to the New York Times.
Nixon was later to provide the singing voices of Natalie Wood in West Side Story in 1961 and for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, in 1964.
Nixon taught singing, at the California Institute of Arts and, later, at the Music Academy of the West, also in California.
Nixon, whose full name was Margaret Nixon McEathron, was born in 1930 in California.