Did Rita Moreno sing in The King and I?
Although Marni Nixon did not sing for Rita Moreno in this film, she did sing for Moreno in the film, West Side Story. (Nixon dubbed Moreno’s singing role in that film’s “Tonight” quintet.)Click to see full answer. Just so, who did the singing in The King and I?Marni Nixon, the Singing Voice Behind the Screen,…
Although Marni Nixon did not sing for Rita Moreno in this film, she did sing for Moreno in the film, West Side Story. (Nixon dubbed Moreno’s singing role in that film’s “Tonight” quintet.)Click to see full answer. Just so, who did the singing in The King and I?Marni Nixon, the Singing Voice Behind the Screen, Dies at 86. Marni Nixon did the singing for, from left, Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” Natalie Wood in “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady.” From left: 20th Century Fox; United Artists; Warner Bros.Likewise, what happens to Tuptim in The King and I? The King receives a gift from the king of Burma, a lovely slave girl named Tuptim, to be one of his many wives. She raises the issue of her house with him, he dismisses her protests and orders her to talk with his wives. They are interested in her, and she tells them of her late husband, Tom (“Hello, Young Lovers”). Also question is, did Yul Brynner do his own singing in The King and I? Maureen O’Hara, who had a pleasant soprano voice, was originally cast, but Richard Rodgers did not agree to the casting. It was Yul Brynner who pressed for Deborah Kerr to play the role. Marni Nixon provided Kerr’s singing for the film.Did Rita Moreno sing in West Side?In 1961’s West Side Story, the studio kept her work on the film (as the singing voice of Natalie Wood’s Maria) a secret from the actress, and Nixon also dubbed Rita Moreno’s singing in the film’s “Tonight” quintet. In 1962, she also sang Wood’s high notes in Gypsy.
