The King and I 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 are equally impressive: Yul_Brynner won an Oscar for his career-best performance as the King of Siam; and Deborah_Kerr's singing was dubbed by the capable Marni_Nixon, who had been responsible for Natalie_Wood's singing voice in West_Side_Story and Audrey_Hepburn's in My_Fair_Lady. Based on the book -Anna and the King of Siam, the story has been filmed at least three times: as the 1946 drama Anna and the King of Siam; as an animated musical of the same name, in 1999; and the non-musical Anna and the King, also from that same year. Brendon Hanley, Rovi
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