This visual and musical masterpiece features Yul Brynner's Academy Award winning performance, an unforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein score and brilliant choreography by Jerome Robbins. It tells the true story of an English woman, Anna Leonowens (Kerr), who comes to Siam as schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860s. 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. The King And I contains some of the most lavish sets in Hollywood and some of the world's best-loved songs, including ´Getting To Know You´, ´I Whistle A Happy Tune´, ´Hello, Young Lovers´ and ´Shall We Dance?´
Directed by
Walter Lang
Written by
Margaret Landon (book "Anna and the King of Siam"); Oscar Hammerstein II (musical play); Ernest Lehman (screenplay).
Starring
Deborah Kerr (Anna Leonowens); Yul Brynner (King Mongkut of Siam); Rita Moreno (Tuptim); Martin Benson (Kralahome); Terry Saunders (Lady Thiang); Rex Thompson (Louis Leonowens); Carlos Rivas (Lun Tha); Patrick Adiarte (Prince Chulalongkorn); Alan Mowbray (Sir John Hay); Geoffrey Toone (Sir Edward Ramsay). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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