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  1. The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on Margaret Landon 's novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. The musical's plot relates the experiences of Anna, a British ...

  2. The King and I: Directed by Walter Lang. With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson. A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.

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    • 1956-06-29
  3. The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I , which is itself based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon .

  4. The King and I, American musical film, released in 1956, that was scored by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein and features a signature performance by Yul Brynner, who had earlier starred in the hit Broadway adaptation. Yul Brynner in the film The King and I (1956). Brynner portrayed the king of Siam, an imperious monarch who is seen as ...

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  5. Rated 4/5 Stars • 09/03/23. Epic musical about the love/hate relationship between Anna Leonowens; who was the hired teacher and consul for King Mongkut of Siam; and the king himself; in the ...

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  6. The King and I opened on Broadway on March 29, 1951, starring Gertrude Lawrence and featuring newcomer Yul Brynner. The show ran for three years, racking up 1,246 performances and five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

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  8. The King and I had been a Broadway phenomenon, defying conventional notions of what made a musical a hit to present the story of two people in love, a widowed British governess and a polygamous Siamese king, who barely touched and never kissed. And just to make the proposition even riskier, Hammerstein's script ended with the King's death (of a broken heart), a rarity for the musical theatre.

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