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The King and I (1956)
7.4
Musical about a widow who accepts a job as a live-in governess of the King of Siam's children. Director:Walter Lang |
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Won 5 Oscars.
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| Deborah Kerr | ... | ||
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| Rita Moreno | ... | ||
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Martin Benson | ... | |
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Terry Saunders | ... | |
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Rex Thompson | ... | |
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Carlos Rivas | ... |
Lun Tha
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Patrick Adiarte | ... | |
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Alan Mowbray | ... |
Sir John Hay
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Geoffrey Toone | ... | |
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Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a Siamese ballet, expressing her unhappiness at being with the King. She attempts to escape with her lover. Anna and the King fall in love, but her British upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. She is just about to leave Siam when she hears of the King's imminent death, and returns to help his son, her favorite pupil, rule his people. Written by Randy Goldberg <goldberg@nymc.edu>
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More than your eyes have ever seen... More than your heart has ever known! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 16, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Gross:
$21,300,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
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4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm re-release) | 6-Track Stereo (1956 roadshow version)Color:
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2.55 : 1
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Anna: Your majesty, I do not intend to have my boy brought up in a harem, and you did promise me a house; "a brick residence adjoining the palace," those were your very words in the letter.
King: [obviously does remember] I do not remember such words.
Anna: I remember them.
King: I will do remembering! Who is king here? I remind you, so you remember that! I do not remember any promises! I do not remember anything except that you are my servant!
Anna: Oh, no, your majesty.
King: What, what, what? I said you are my servant!
Anna: No, your majesty, that is not true. I am most certainly not your servant, and what is more, if you do not give me the house you promised, I shall be forced to return to England immediately.
[children protest]
Princess Ying Yaawolak: I believe in snow!
[...]
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in Cinemascope 55", and then they go on to say "Darryl F. Zanuck presents
Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'The King and I'". See more »
Music by Richard Rodgers
Performed by the 20th Century-Fox Orchestra
Conducted by Alfred Newman See more »
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Trivia
Though Richard Rodgers rejected Maureen O'Hara for the title role of Anna, she had previously starred in the 1941 Rodgers and Hart musical "They Met in Argentina." See more »Goofs
Continuity: In the Shall We Dance Scene, Anna lays her shawl on the bench before the dance and the King sits on it. When the camera is on the king again, the shawl is no longer on the bench or on the floor. See more »Quotes
King: You think you teach King lesson, but this is one lesson you do not get paid for teaching! In the future, you will stop instructing wives and children in silly English song "Home Sweet House" to remind me of breaking promises I never make, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!Anna: Your majesty, I do not intend to have my boy brought up in a harem, and you did promise me a house; "a brick residence adjoining the palace," those were your very words in the letter.
King: [obviously does remember] I do not remember such words.
Anna: I remember them.
King: I will do remembering! Who is king here? I remind you, so you remember that! I do not remember any promises! I do not remember anything except that you are my servant!
Anna: Oh, no, your majesty.
King: What, what, what? I said you are my servant!
Anna: No, your majesty, that is not true. I am most certainly not your servant, and what is more, if you do not give me the house you promised, I shall be forced to return to England immediately.
[children protest]
Princess Ying Yaawolak: I believe in snow!
[...]
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Crazy Credits
The credits first say "Twentieth-Century Fox presents a Cinemascope Picturein Cinemascope 55", and then they go on to say "Darryl F. Zanuck presents
Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'The King and I'". See more »
Soundtracks
"The March of the Siamese Children"Music by Richard Rodgers
Performed by the 20th Century-Fox Orchestra
Conducted by Alfred Newman See more »
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