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While she has an impressive stage career (having seen her in two Broadway musicals myself, "Follies" and "Nine"), Marnie Nixon is best known for dubbing non-singing actresses in movie musicals and being one of the nuns in "The Sound of Music". She also introduced the theme song to "An Affair to Remember". But here, she gets to play herself in the final "Mothers in Law", chosen to play the lead much to Kay and Eve's fury. Mary Jane Croft guests stars as the head of the ladies auxiliary, and veteran character actor John Myhers plays the frustrated musical director, with Marjorie Bennett of "Baby Jane" thrown in as a baseball loving member of the auxiliary. Nixon keeps her real identity secret as she competes with Eve and Kay for the lead, which leads them to go in for the kill when she gets the lead and her identity is revealed. Listen for her Anna, Maria and Eliza when she finally gets a chance to sing over greedy songbird Kay. Sadly this would be the show's last episode without the star's knowledge when they filmed it, but obviously the network brass wanted to eliminate this kind of broad comedy for a new brand that would take sitcoms into a new era.