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I think that we also established that she was born in California.

Is she a modern singer, a young singer - say, risen to stardom in the last 10 years?

Or is she an "established" star "of a certain age"?

Genre - musicals? jazz? pop?

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I think that we also established that she was born in California.

Yes that is so.

Is she a modern singer, a young singer - say, risen to stardom in the last 10 years?
Or is she an "established" star "of a certain age" ?

Active from 1948 to 1998 in the genre for which she is rightly famed.

Genre - musicals? jazz? pop?

Musicals, which may hopefully entice you into the klaxon field.

Barbara Streisand

Hugely popular with South Park

As a further attempt to entice info....

Has she won any Oscars???




GT

We (the girls in my office) believe she has won a few, not sure how many or what for but it is believed one was for 'Funny Girls' but were not sure.

Let's wait for pebbles answer before we dive in without looking. There are klaxons out there!!


GT

Yes, and I am expecting to hit some...

Nalot of the Silver
Barbara Streisand

Hugely popular with South Park

Not Ms Streisand but you are correct that Babs has won two Oscars (Best Actress in Funny Girl shared with Kathryn Hepburn)and original song (Evergreen from A Star Is Born).

gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA
As a further attempt to entice info....

Has she won any Oscars???

I believe that the lady in question has never even managed a nomination despite being in at least three Oscar winning musicals.

Sadly (for me) there are not many klaxons. I felt that listing all 13,768 living songstresses was a bit mean.

Oscar winning musicals.

Gigi, West Side Story, My Fair lady all spring to mind.

Was she in all of them???


GT

She was in two of those movies but not in all three.

Closing in on the answer now so I don't want to make it too easy unless I can throw in a crafty red herring

Sorry pebble

My Film Book does not give any female singer correolation between those three films



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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA
Sorry pebble

My Film Book does not give any female singer correolation between those three films.

Only two of the three correlate gandalfstwin.

But if you are correlating with a film book let's give it a good run out?

Try adding The Sound of Music? Joan of Arc? Mary Poppins?

Runs away giggling.

Are you trying to trip me up by tempting me to mention someone who's initials are J.A.???

Really, do you think I am that gullible???



GT

Would it be Marni Nixon, who provided Audrey Hepburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady?

gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA
Are you trying to trip me up by tempting me to mention someone who's initials are J.A.???

Really, do you think I am that gullible???


Absolutely not....but I was so desperate to get at least one klaxon and maybe 50 posts before someone like.................................................

hygienicdispenser
Would it be Marni Nixon, who provided Audrey Hepburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady?

............wandered in with the correct answer.

The great and almost unknown Marni Nixon who provided most of the voice of Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, as well as singing for Deborah Kerr in The King And I, and Natalie Wood's vocals in West Side Story.

She started in 1948 as the voice of an angel in Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman). She also sang as a goose in Mary Poppins. She did the vocals again for Deborah Kerr in An Affair To Remember and one of her last screen jobs was in the cartoon Mulan where she sang the part of Granny Fa.

If you want to see her at work, watch The Sound of Music, where she actually appears on screen as Sister Sophia.

The clue was "the opposite of a good child". Because good children are seen and not heard; she was heard but not seen. I was quite proud of that one.

Scores such as they are, later.

Still I console myself that two people have heard of her.

The My Fair Lady fact was the only thing I did know about her.

BuggerBuggerBugger!!

Marni Nixon was one of the names I scribbled out

GT

On stage and accepting the oscar, its hygienicdispenser for a correct +3

No doubt gratefully thanking all those who made it possible including pebblederook with an elfish +2

Trying to decide if being nominated and then losing out is better than being ignored is teasswill with a supporting DGI +1

And the Marni Nixon award goes to gandalfstwin who gets 0 points and no recognition whatsoever despite doing most of the work.

Rotter!!!

Not even a solitary DGI

GT