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Film Forum Presents An Evening with Marni Nixon Feb. 23

By Andrew Gans
23 Feb 2009

Marni Nixon

The Film Forum presents a chat with Marni Nixon — who is perhaps best known for dubbing the vocal performances of such film stars as Audrey Hepburn (in "My Fair Lady"), Deborah Kerr (in "The King and I") and Natalie Wood (in "West Side Story") — Feb. 23 at the downtown Manhattan venue.

Film Forum's Bruce Goldstein and musical theatre writer Stephen Cole, co-author of Nixon's autobiography, will interview the famed singing actress. An Evening with Marni Nixon is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM.

Marni Nixon was most recently on Broadway in the Tony-winning revival of Nine, and her other Main Stem credits include Follies, James Joyce's The Dead and The Girl in the Pink Tights. She played Aunt Alice in the film "I Think I Do" and Sister Sophia in the motion picture of "The Sound of Music." Nixon was also seen as Mother Abbess in the Hollywood Bowl's presentation of The Sound of Music. Nixon was also recently part of the cast of the City Center Encores! production of Music in the Air.

Admission is $20, $10 for Film Forum members.

Film Forum is located in Manhattan at 209 West Houston Street. For more information call (212) 727-8110 or visit www.filmforum.org.