My Fair Lady again in the part of Higgins. The casting of Audrey Hepburn instead of Julie Andrews as Eliza was controversial, partly because theatregoers regarded Andrews as perfect for the part and partly because Hepburn's singing voice was dubbed (by Marni Nixon). Jack L. Warner, the head of Warner Bros., which produced the film, wanted "a star with a great deal of name recognition", but since Julie Andrews did not have any film experience, he thought a movie with her would not be as successful. (Andrews went on to star in "Mary Poppins" that same year for which she won both the
Marni Nixon in the role of Mrs. Higgins. In 1950, Nixon married the first of her three husbands, Ernest Gold, who composed the theme song to the movie "Exodus". They had three children, including singer and songwriter Andrew Gold. They divorced in 1969. She was married to Dr. Lajos "Fritz" Fenster from 1971 to 1975, and to woodwind player Albert Block from 1983 to his death in 2015. Nixon survived breast cancer in 1985 and 2000 but finally died from the disease on July 24, 2016, in New York, aged 86. On October 27, 2008, Nixon was presented with the Singer Symposium's