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
John Kerr (actor) him on the series, which focuses on the cases of attorneys with the Legal Aid Society of New York. He made "The Cobweb" for MGM, who liked his work so much they co-starred him with Leslie Caron in "Gaby" (1956), the third remake of "Waterloo Bridge", which, in its original pre-Code 1931 version, featured John's grandfather, actor Frederick Kerr. Kerr starred with Deborah Kerr (no relation) in "Tea and Sympathy" in 1956. In a widely publicized decision in 1956, Kerr declined to play the role of Charles Lindbergh in "The Spirit of St. Louis" because he did not respect Lindbergh's