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 Twiss photography in spring 2014. She has also appeared in "The Networker" opposite Sean Young and William Forsythe. Tapping her independent film experience, Twiss is developing several projects in which she will play lead roles including "Just In Time", "Parallel Veins", the horror comedy film "Bloody Ultimatum", and a revenge horror film "Contract With A Demon". She wrote and co-directed 2014 the Horror mystery thriller film "A Cry from Within", which was co-directed with Zach Miller. Deborah Twiss Deborah Twiss (born December 22, 1971) is an American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer. In the 2000s she became well-known with roles