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King And I, The (1956) - I Whistle A Happy Tune

Joining the opening scene, Deborah Kerr as Anna Leonowens, Rex Thompson her son, Charles Irwin the captain, arriving Bangkok, 1862, for her new job teaching the king’s children, Martin Benson “the Kralahome,” Marni Nixon’s vocal for the Rodgers & Hammerstein song, in The King And I, 1956.

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