Anna Leonowens eccentric Victorian female traveler". The novel was adapted as a hit musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, "The King and I" (1951), starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner, which ran 1,246 performances on Broadway and was also a hit in London and on tour. In 1956, a film version was released, with Deborah Kerr starring in the role of Leonowens and Brynner reprising his role as the king. Revived many times on stage (with Brynner starring in revivals until 1985), the musical has remained a favourite of the theatregoing public. The humorous depiction of Mongkut as a polka-dancing despot, as well
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