Margaret Nixon McEathron

 Margaret Nixon McEathron, known as Marni Nixon (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016)

Nixon was a soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She was best known for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including The King and I, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady. 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 recordings. 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 Barbara, in 1980, where she taught for many years. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she hosted a children's television show in Seattle on KOMO-TV channel 4 called Boomerang, winning four Emmy Awards as best actress, and made numerous other television appearances on variety shows and as a guest star in prime time series. Nixon also toured with Liberace and Victor Borge and later in her own cabaret shows. In 2000, after nearly a half century away, she returned to Broadway as Aunt Kate in James Joyce's The Dead. On October 27, 2008, Nixon was presented with the Singer Symposium's Distinguished Artist Award in New York City. Nixon survived breast cancer in 1985 and 2000 but finally succumbed to the disease. She died on July 24, 2016, in New York, aged 86.