Rodgers and Hammerstein Nellie Forbush, and opera star Ezio Pinza starred as Emile de Becque, the French plantation owner. Also in the cast were Juanita Hall, Myron McCormick and Betta St. John. The 1958 film version, also directed by Logan, starred Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, Ray Walston, and Juanita Hall. Brazzi, Kerr, and Hall had their singing dubbed by others. Based on Margaret Landon's "Anna and the King of Siam"—the story of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s—Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I opened on Broadway on March 29, 1951,
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