‘Ghost with the most’ is dead

TRIBUTES have been paid to the soprano who dubbed the voices of Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood and Marilyn Monroe, who has died aged 86.

Marni Nixon’s voice could be heard in some of the biggest movie musicals of the Golden Age, as she dubbed Wood in Hepburn in and Deborah Kerr in She also performed the high notes on for Marilyn Monroe in

The American singer was referred to as “The ghostess with the mostest” and in 2012 won the George Peabody Award for outstanding contributions to American music.

Her agent said: “She passed away peacefully, with her family by her side, of breast cancer.”