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
The Sweet Body of Deborah The "Saturday Review" gave the film a positive review, noting that: "the film's unstinting effort to entertain at all costs is both welcome and refreshing." The film was considered very sexy for its time, showing brief glimpses of Carroll Baker's nudity and Ida Galli's fetishistic clothing. Upon the film's release, "The New Yorker" republished a snippet of a review by John Mahoney of "The Hollywood Reporter", which contained an extensive and detailed description of Baker's nude body as it appeared in the film. The Sweet Body of Deborah The Sweet Body of Deborah () is a 1968 "giallo" film directed