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
The Three Musketeers (1948 film) January 1948, news items reported Turner withdrew from "The Three Musketeers". Initially, she had permission to withdraw from Louis B. Mayer, because she had been very busy shooting the films "Green Dolphin Street" (1947), "Cass Timberlane" (1947), and "Homecoming" (1948). However, she was later put on suspension and Alida Valli was considered as her replacement. Eventually, she agreed to make the film, and it sparked her first film in color. Before June Allyson was cast in the remaining female lead, Deborah Kerr was offered the role in November 1947. While the work was in the public domain in the US