| If she didn't know at the time of the opening, then she was the only person in the Western World who didn't know. For months before the movie opened, it was said in the press that Marni Nixon had provided Hepburn's singing voice, and not just in articles about Nixon playing Eliza onstage in the City Center production that opened five months before the film. The soundtrack album was released a couple of weeks before the movie, and that made the situation clear enough that Douglas Watt, reviewing it in the Daily News, seemed to think that Hepburn was not heard on it at all. |
