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Summary:
The King and I, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical hit, was based on Margaret Landon's book -Anna and the King of Siam. Since 20th-Century-Fox had made a film version of the Landon book in 1946, that studio had first dibs on the movie adaptation of The King and I. Deborah Kerr plays English widow Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam in th... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Deborah Kerr - (Anna Leonowens)
Yul Brynner - (The King of Siam)
Rita Moreno - (Tuptim)
Martin Benson - (Kralahome)
Terry Saunders - (Lady Thiang)
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Review:
The King and I typifies the elaborate Broadway musical adaptations with which Hollywood studios often tried to fight the advance of television of 1950s. Shot in an extreme widescreen version of CinemaScope to counter the smallness of the TV screen, the film offers equally grand set design, costumes, and cinematography. The songs and performances... Continue >>

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