Anna Leonowens and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical "The King and I". During the course of her life, Leonowens also lived in Aden, Australia, Singapore, the United States and Canada. Among other achievements, she co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Anna Leonowens' mother, Mary Ann Glascott, married her father, Sergeant Thomas Edwards, a non-commissioned officer in the Honourable East India Company's Corps of Sappers and Miners, on 15 March 1829 in St James's Church, Tannah, Bombay Presidency, British India. Edwards was from London and a former cabinetmaker. She was born in Ahmednagar district, India, on 5 November 1831, three months
Hayley Mills popular success and Mills would be voted the fifth biggest star in the country for the next two years. In 1963 Disney announced plans to film "I Capture the Castle", from the novel by Dodie Smith, with Hayley Mills in the role of Cassandra. However, Disney never produced the film. Her fourth movie for Disney did less well though was still successful, "Summer Magic" (1963), a musical adaptation of the novel "Mother Carey's Chickens". Ross Hunter hired her for a British-American production, "The Chalk Garden" (1964), playing a girl who torments governess Deborah Kerr. Back at Disney she was in