He developed Electrical Porcelain with transmission engineers at GE. His family continued to work at Building 68 in Schenectady for decades. William's son Frank Cermak advanced insulator design into the mid 20th century.
When Rex Harrison accepted his Academy Award for My Fair Lady (1964), he dedicated it to his two fair ladies, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews both who had played Eliza Doolittle with him.
No. Even though she had signed on to do her own singing in West Side Story, she ended up being dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. Wood did, however, do her own singing in the movie musical Gypsy.