The King and I (1956 film) O'Hara, who had a pleasant soprano voice, was originally cast, but Richard Rodgers did not agree to the casting. It was Yul Brynner who pressed for Deborah Kerr to play the role. Marni Nixon provided Kerr's singing for the film. Nixon and Kerr worked side-by-side in the recording studio for songs which combined speaking and singing. Nixon would also dub Kerr's singing the following year, for the film "An Affair to Remember". Donald Bogle's biography of Dorothy Dandridge claims that Dandridge was offered the role of Tuptim in partial fulfillment of her three-picture contract with 20th Century-Fox, but that Dandridge
Deborah Berger the 2015 exhibit "When the Curtain Never Comes Down" at the American Folk Art Museum. 2015 Behind the Mask: Performance, Ritual, and the Artist 2011 DEBORAH BERGER! CROCHET!!! Deborah Berger Deborah Berger (1956 – May 21, 2005) was an American artist noted for her oeuvre of brightly colored textile works created in knitting and crochet. She is considered an outsider artist and a prodigy. Deborah Berger was born in 1956 in New Jersey. Berger was born with autism and attended boarding schools for special needs children in Texas and Pennsylvania. Deborah Berger started knitting as a young child. By the