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- Legendary British actress Gertrude Lawrence – friend, castmate, and mischievous muse to the eternally witty Noël Coward – won a Tony Award as Anna Leonowens in the original 1951 Broadway production of The King and I, starring Yul Brynner as the King.
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Nov 22, 2019 · From Angela Lansbury to Rachel York, seven starry actresses who have played the iconic heroine Anna Leonowens in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "The King and I."
Nov 15, 2019 · In 1960, the beloved soprano played Anna Leonowens in an acclaimed New York City Center revival of The King and I, starring Farley Granger as The King.
Oct 4, 2021 · In 1862, Anna Leonowens was offered the post by Tan Kim Chang, the consul in Singapore, and decided to teach the children and wives of the King of Siam. While in the fictional works, it is depicted that Anna was hired as a governess by the King of Siam, she was actually merely an English teacher.
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Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards; [1] 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian -born British [2] travel writer, educator, and social activist.
Anna and the King: Directed by Andy Tennant. With Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton. The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Andy Tennant
- 1999-12-17
Anna Leonowens. A Welsh-born widow from Victorian England, Anna has been engaged by the King of Siam as teacher to the royal children. Though her late husband was an Officer in Her Majesty’s Army, Anna is visiting Siam for the first time.
May 2, 2015 · In the current production, Japanese film star Ken Watanabe plays the Thai king and Broadway star Kelli O'Hara plays Anna. O'Hara says she's playing the character that Leonowens wanted to...
