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 Sale Butler about how her son has progressed over the years, but her extraordinary life in homeschooling her Autistic child that she titled, "We Aut To Be At Home", & continues to blog to this day. Deborah is best known as the voice of Cecile Croomy from the "Code Geass" series, the lead role of Mai Shibamura from "Gunparade March", Shute from "SD Gundam", as well as the female lead of Layla Ashley from Avenger. Deborah Sale Butler Deborah Sale Butler is a voice artist, and a speech and dialect coach. She was born on October 31, 1964 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She