The King and I (1956 film) The King and I (1956 film) 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 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical "The King and I", based in turn on the novel "Anna and the King of Siam" by Margaret Landon. That novel in turn was based on memoirs written by Anna Leonowens, who became school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. Leonowens' stories were
Robert Anderson (playwright) took an undergraduate as well as a master's degree. He may be best-remembered as the author of "Tea and Sympathy". The play made its Broadway debut in 1953 and was made into an Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in 1956; both starred Deborah Kerr and John Kerr. "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running", a collection of four one-act comedies, opened in New York in 1967 and ran for more than 700 performances. His other successful Broadway plays were "Silent Night, Lonely Night" (1959) and "I Never Sang for My Father" (1968). He wrote the screenplays for "Until They Sail"