King and I, The
This visual and musical masterpiece features Yul Brynner's Academy Award winning performance, an inforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein score, and brilliant choreography by Jerome Robbins.
It tells the true story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr), who comes o Siam as schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860's.
Though she soon finds herself at odds with the stubborn monarch (Brynner), over time, Anna and the King stop trying to change each other and begin to understand one another.
Directed by
Walter Lang
Cast
Deborah Kerr - Anna
Yul Brynner - The King
Rita Moreno - Tuptim
Martin Benson - Kralahome
Terry Saunders - Lady Thiang
Rex Thompson - Louis Leonowens
Carlos Rivas - Lun Tha
Patrick Adiarte - Prince Chulalongkorn
Alan Mowbray - British Ambassador
Geoffrey Toone - Ramsay
Yuriko - Eliza
Marion Jim - Simon Legree
Production Co.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Produced by
Charles Brackett
Studio
20th Century Fox
Writer
Ernest Lehman
Margaret Landon
Oscar Hammerstein
Music
Richard Rodgers
