Marni Nixon film's "Tonight" quintet. She asked the film's producers for, but did not receive, any direct royalties from her work on the film, but Leonard Bernstein contractually gave her 1/4 of one percent of his personal royalties from it. In 1962, she also sang Wood's high notes in "Gypsy". For "My Fair Lady" in 1964, she again worked with the female lead of the film, Audrey Hepburn, to perform the songs of Hepburn's character Eliza. Because of her uncredited dubbing work in these films, "Time" magazine called her "The Ghostess with the Mostest". Nixon made guest appearances with Leonard Bernstein's "Young
Marni Nixon People's Concerts", including in 1960, singing "Improvisation sur Mallarmé I" from "Pli selon pli" by Pierre Boulez, and on April 9, 1961, in a program entitled "Folk Music in the Concert Hall", singing three "Songs of the Auvergne" by Joseph Canteloube. Before "My Fair Lady" was released in theatres in 1964, Nixon played Eliza in a revival of the musical at New York City Center. Nixon's first onscreen appearance was as Sister Sophia in the 1965 film "The Sound of Music". In the DVD commentary to the film, director Robert Wise comments that audiences were finally able to see the