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...most important and surprising thing about Anna and the King of Siam is that they go through 100 minutes of film and manage to maintain an intelligent, if platonic, relationship that must set a new record for Hollywood forbearance. In the place of love under the Siamese moon, 20th-Century-Fox has fashioned an interesting tale of what can happen when a prim but courageous English-woman goes to take up the white man's burden and remains to guide the destiny of a struggling monarch and his nation. All this is decidedly novel for a high-budget film...
Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl isn't the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...
...still the rumors, Siam's officials appointed a committee of 19 doctors (including two Britons, one American and one Indian) to exhume and examine the royal body. Last week the doctors reported their 18-to-1 verdict: death by assassination...
Meanwhile, Ananda's uneasy successor, his younger brother Phumiphon, prepared to leave Siam to "finish his studies" in Switzerland. Ananda had been about to leave when he was shot...
Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece. Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl isn't the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...