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 Gates as "Oliver & Company" and video games like "Guild Wars". She played the lead role of American journalist Helen Foster Snow in the Chinese film "Yi ge mao xian de mei guo nu ren". Deborah Gates Deborah Gates is an American actress and director who founded the acting company Shakespeare at Play in Los Angeles, California that specializes in abridged versions of Shakespeare’s works for young audiences. Gates has played many classical roles, including Ophelia in Mark Ringer's staging of "Hamlet," Kate in "Taming of the Shrew," Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" at