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Anna and the King of Siam 1946
In this first movie version of Margaret London's account of the Englishwoman who went to Siam in 1862 to teach the multitudinous children of the barbaric king, Irene Dunne is Anna to Rex Harrison's King. Harrison wears a dusky makeup and a pair of short pants that wrap around his haunches, and he speaks in a quaint dialect -- a sort of pidgin Piccadilly -- but he's never less than magnetically ridiculous. You don't want to take your eyes off him -- certainly not to watch Irene Dunne curtsying in her starched petticoats. It's pitifully inauthentic, and not a very good movie, either, but the story holds considerable interest.Posted by sheila