Ghost singers

[zither]

This is about people like Marni Nixon who provided the singing voices for actors on screen. There were many of them, mostly uncredited.


http://bbc.in/1aeUxZZ

[LadyKat]

Thanks for the link Zither! If I get a chance I will have a look (and listen) to that. Marni Nixon was amazing and of course Andrew Gold's mum too.

[zither]

Thanks for the link Zither! If I get a chance I will have a look (and listen) to that. Marni Nixon was amazing and of course Andrew Gold's mum too.

I didn't know the last bit!

[LadyKat]

I didn't know the last bit!

Yeah, I only found out a few years ago. He predeceased her, sadly. I think he was only 59 when he passed on and she passed on fairly recently I think?

[zither]

She died a few weeks ago, I think.

[Tigon Man]

An interesting subject.
For the Brits, Diana Coupland springs to mind, singing for Ursula Andress in Dr No.

[Tigon Man]

Kat,
Do you know if Barry Warren did any singing, ghostly or otherwise?

[LadyKat]

Kat,
Do you know if Barry Warren did any singing, ghostly or otherwise?

He's never sung in anything I've seen him in yet, possibly on the stage he did? I have seen him dance though, beautifully (assuming it wasn't a double) in The Kiss Of The Vampire, and there is evidence to suggest he mayalso an artist who produced a number of paintings, so it wouldn't surprise me if he could sing too. He also read stories for Radio 4 in the late 70s.

My lovely was a very talented person!!!

[zither]

He sang as Feste on stage - rather well, by all accounts!

[zither]

An interesting subject.
For the Brits, Diana Coupland springs to mind, singing for Ursula Andress in Dr No.

I didn't know about that. Somehow I thought it was the kind of thing that we wouldn't do!

[martinu]

An interesting subject.
For the Brits, Diana Coupland springs to mind, singing for Ursula Andress in Dr No.

I never knew that she could sing. I tend to think of her only as Sid James's wife in Bless This House. I wonder if in the UK we would at least be up front about a ghost singer and credit them, rather than perpetuating the idea that the starring actress could sing sufficiently well.

[zabadak]

This is about people like Marni Nixon who provided the singing voices for actors on screen. There were many of them, mostly uncredited.


http://bbc.in/1aeUxZZ

She did a really good job subbing for Natalie Wood in West Side Story!

[zither]

And Deborah Kerr - you couldn't imagine two people more different from each other!