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Deborah Jane Trimmer [1] was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow, [3] the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (née Smale) and Capt. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer.
The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, which is itself based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
In 1956, she worked closely with Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I; Kerr broke with Hollywood convention by publicly crediting Nixon's singing. [6] [7] In 1957 Nixon again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in An Affair to Remember. [1]
"Getting to Know You" is a show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. It was first sung by Gertrude Lawrence in the original Broadway production and later by Marni Nixon who dubbed for Deborah Kerr in the 1956 film adaptation. In the show, Anna, a British schoolteacher who has been hired as a governess, sings the ...
The song is sung by Vic Damone during the film's opening credits and then sung later by Deborah Kerr's character, Terry McKay, a nightclub singer-turned-music teacher. Kerr's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon , who also dubbed for Kerr in the film The King and I .
Valerie Hobson played Anna in the original London West End production, and Marni Nixon (who sang the songs while Deborah Kerr lip-synced) in the 1956 film of The King and I. [2] The song comes about after Anna and the King disagree about love's meaning; [ 3 ] the King believes that love is a "silly complication of a pleasant simplicity" and a ...
Among popular versions are those by: Frank Sinatra - recorded March 2, 1951 with Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra., [1] as well as on 1965's September of My Years. [2]Perry Como - recorded March 20, 1951 with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra. [3]
The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. ... The musical was filmed in 1956 with Brynner re-creating his role opposite Deborah Kerr.