The King and I
~ T is the year 1862, A sailing ship puts in to the teeming port of Bangkok, Siam, On board are an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son, Louis, The mother has come to act as governess to the numerous children of King Mongkvt, who reigned from 1851 to the time of his death in 1868. From the adventures of the indomitable Mrs. Leonowens, sticking to her whalebone Victorian standards in the midst of the most flamboyant exoticism, Margaret Landon wrote her biography, Anna and the King of Siam, The book was made into a film starring Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison, and later Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II seized upon it for their musical show, The King and I. After an exhaustive season on Broadway and in the West End, it was inevitable that The King and 1 should fall into the De Luxe Coloured slot of CinemaScope 55. This time, Mrs. Leonowens is played by Deborah Kerr (with the dubbed-in singing assistance of Marni Nixon); the -egg-bald, bare-footed King by Yul Brynner, of the New York stage; Tuptim, the beautiful favourite, by Rita Moreno, and Lun Tha, her lover, by Carlos Rivas. This week’s ZB Sunday Showcase, on August 19, will present: an hour of musical numbers taken from the soundtrack of the film,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 17
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222The King and I New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 17
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