This visual and musical masterpiece features Yul Brynner's Academy Award(r) winning performance, an inforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein(r) 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.
Starring:
Deborah Kerr - Anna Leonowens
Yul Brynner - King Mongkut Of Siam
Rita Moreno - Tuptim
Terry Saunders - Lady Thiang
Martin Benson - Kralahome
Rex Thompson - Louis Leonowens
Patrick Adiarte - Prince Chulalongkorn
Alan Mowbray - Sir John Hay
Geoffrey Toone -Sir Edward Ramsay
Carlos Rivas - Lun Tha
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Filmed: 1956 - Released: 1956
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