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
Virgin (film) Virgin (film) Virgin is a 2003 American drama film, directed by Deborah Kampmeier and starring Elisabeth Moss, Robin Wright Penn and Daphne Rubin-Vega. When teenage Jessie, raised very religiously, finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God. Virgin won 5 film awards and was nominated for 3 others: Hamptons International Film Festival 2003: Won Best Screenplay: Deborah Kampmeier Nominated Golden Starfish Award Best Fiction Feature Film/Video: Deborah Kampmeier Independent Spirit Awards 2004: Nominated Best Female Lead: Elisabeth Moss Nominated John Cassavetes Award: Deborah Kampmeier (writer/director) and Sarah Schenck