Anna Leonowens
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Anna Harriette Leonowens was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist.
Anna Leonowens, c. 1905
Anna Leonowens, c. 1862
King Mongkut with his heir, Prince Chulalongkorn, both in naval uniforms (c. 1866)
Leonowens in Montreal with two of her grandchildren
The King and I
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The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam, which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowen
Anna Leonowens
…Landon's best-selling novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944) as well as adaptations for other media such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 musical The King and I as well as the 1999 movie Anna and the King. During the course of her life, Leonowens also lived in Western Australia, Singapore and Penang, the United…
Original Broadway poster (1951)
King Mongkut (far right) with his heir Chulalongkorn seated next to him and some of his other children. A wife is seated at left.
Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein