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Anna Leonowens is an English school teacher who comes to teach the children of King Mongut of Siam in the 1860's.
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Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, adapted from Margaret Landon's fact-based novel and the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siam, makes a spectacularly successful move to the silver screen. Brynner, reprising the role he'd polished to perfection on stage, plays the blustering, headstrong Siamese potentate who meets his match in the form of Anna Leonowens (Kerr), the prim and proper English widow he's hired to oversee the rearing of his huge, unruly flock of children. The delightful score, which also garnered an Oscar, includes three perennial favorite show tunes: I Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You and Shall We Dance?
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