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
Love on the Dole (film) The music by Richard Addinsell is worth noting, especially that which preludes the opening of the film." Love on the Dole (film) Love on the Dole is a 1941 British drama film starring Deborah Kerr and Clifford Evans. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood. The film is set in Hanky Park, part of Salford, at the height of the Great Depression. The film was the first English made feature film to show English police wielding batons against the crowd. In a contemporary review, "The Monthly Film Bulletin" wrote "Here is a film that