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...trace of femininity. One of the three should be a she. To manifest divinity required a real nativity, and that required maternity, a woman's creativity. Which one of the three should be a she? Because the cosmos needs a hostess we recommend: Father, Son and Holy Ghostess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1970 | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...musical might reasonably be expected to be a singer. But not out there. When Audrey Hepburn sings I Could Have Danced All Night in Warner Brothers' My Fair Lady, the voice on the sound track won't be Audrey's. It belongs to Marni Nixon, the ghostess with the mostest. A girl with a rubber range, Marni is a redheaded, blue-eyed lyric soprano who can slip into a contralto and sing in the accents of any unmusical star. She was also the voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story, of Deborah Kerr in The King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Instant Voice | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

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