# Who dubbed Audrey Hepburn’s singing voice in ‘My Fair Lady’?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/who-dubbed-audrey-hepburns-singing-voice-in-my-fair-lady/
- Published: 2026-11-10T18:45:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T19:35:40+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/who-dubbed-audrey-hepburn-singing-voice-in-my-fair-lady/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Marni Nixon dubbed Hepburn’s songs in *My Fair Lady*.
- Hepburn struggled with the musical’s high notes.
- Nixon also sang for several other leading actors.

## Summary

Marni Nixon supplied Audrey Hepburn’s singing voice in the 1964 film *My Fair Lady*, because Hepburn could not reach the high notes the songs required. The article describes ghost singing as a longstanding Hollywood practice that lets actors perform musical roles without singing every part themselves.

Nixon had also dubbed songs for Deborah Kerr in *The King and I* and *An Affair to Remember*, and for Natalie Wood in *West Side Story*, as well as Marilyn Monroe in *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes*. Much of this work went uncredited, and Nixon was warned that revealing her contribution to *The King and I* could cost her work; she was later able to speak about her hidden role in film history.

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