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...important matter was the mysterious death-by-gunshot of Siam's young King Ananda (TIME, June 17). Siamese officialdom has insisted that the death was purely accidental. Police Chief Phra Ram Indra even shot a pig before the whole Parliament to prove that the absence of powder burns on Ananda's face meant nothing...
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 type of movie fun (TIME, June...
Anna and the King of Siam (20th Century-Fox) flies in the face of established Hollywood precedent by ignoring Young Love, and proves that a movie can be lively entertainment even if boy doesn't get-or even meet-girl...
...1860s, the film is a fairly literal transcription of Margaret Landon's 1944 best-selling biography. Anna (Irene Dunne) is a purposeful widow, handsome in her crinolines, who arrives in Siam clutching her young son by the hand. Having firmly decided against marrying again, she is taking a job as schoolmarm in the gaudy, uncivilized court of King Mongkut (Rex Harrison). The King's domestic arrangements are already pretty well set, what with his hundreds of wives and concubines and an estimated 67 children. There is never a hint of romance between Anna and her difficult new boss...
...providing a popularly elected Siamese parliament, and last fortnight he opened the first session. This week he had planned to leave by air for the U.S., then go to Switzerland to finish a law course at the University of Lausanne. His family and the strong, subtle men who run Siam had opposed this trip, promising to import tutors if he wanted more study. But Ananda had persisted...