Gypsy (1962 film) scratchy acetate discs and included as bonus tracks on the CD reissue of the film's soundtrack. Marni Nixon had dubbed Natalie Wood's singing voice in "West Side Story" the previous year, but Wood did her own singing in "Gypsy." While Wood recorded a separate version of "Little Lamb" for the soundtrack album, in the film she sang the song "live" on the set. Other songs performed live were "Mr. Goldstone, I Love You" and the reprise of "Small World", both sung by Russell (not Kirk). Film historian Douglas McVay observed in his book "The Musical Film", "Fine as "West Side
Gypsy (1962 film) Story" is, though, it is equaled and, arguably, surpassed - in a rather different idiom - by another filmed Broadway hit: Mervyn LeRoy’s "Gypsy". Arthur Laurents' book (for) "West Side Story" (adapted for the screen by Ernest Lehman), though largely craftsmanlike, falls short of his libretto for "Gypsy" (scripted on celluloid by Leonard Spigelgass), based on the memoirs of the transatlantic stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The dialogue and situations in "Gypsy" have more wit, bite and emotional range, and the characterizations are more complex. "Variety" noted, "There is a wonderfully funny sequence involving three nails-hard strippers which comes when "Gypsy"