The King and I (1956 film) autobiographical, although various elements of them have been called into question. The film stars Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner. The film was a critical and commercial success, and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning five, including Best Actor for Brynner. Another film adaptation of the same musical, the animated film "The King and I", was released in 1999. Strong-willed, widowed schoolteacher Anna Leonowens arrives in Bangkok from Wales with her young son Louis after being summoned to tutor the many children of King Mongkut. The two are introduced to the intimidating Kralahome, King Mongkut's confidant and Siam's prime minister.
Deborah Meadows Poetry capable of elevating the reader into new ways of thinking about language often runs the risk of isolating and ostracizing the reader through challenge and difficulty in the breakage of paradigms. … In Deborah Meadows’s latest collection of writing, "The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays", these fine lines are approached and often transcended through the poet’s consistent use of external influences and forces. Deborah Meadows Deborah Meadows (born 1956) is an American poet and playwright and essayist. Meadows has published more than ten books of poetry, as well as essays, plays, and lithographs. She was nominated for Los