
	Where results make sense

Topic: Anna and the King of Siam

Related Topics

Anna and the King

Anna Leonowens

Mongkut

Margaret Landon

Rama VII

Chakri dynasty

Louis III of East Francia

Vajiravudh

1946 in film

Rex Harrison

Chulalongkorn

Richard Rodgers

Yul Brynner

Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Siam

In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Anna and the King of Siam - Fiction and Fact
		Anna and her sister were at school in Wales at the time.
		Anna and her sister moved to India on the completion of their education at the age of 14 or 15.
		Anna and her sister returned to India on the completion of their education at the age of 14 or 15.
	www.thailandlife.com /annaandtheking.html (693 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: ANNA & THE KING review
		Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster), recently widowed, travels with her young son Louis (Tom Felton) to the alien culture of Siam.
		Anna would seem to consider herself an equal, and her attitude is indulged; she is called "sir" since no woman may stand in the presence of the king.
		Anna and the King was not treated kindly by either the critics or the public.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/annaandtheking.html (1140 words)

	Anna and the King - Articles page 1
		Laurence Blender's draft script for Anna and the King was rejected by the National Film Board on Oct 15 on the grounds that it was factually inaccurate and potentially insulting to the Royal family.
		In an article published in the April, 1957, edition of The Journal of the Siam Society, historian Alexander B Griswold notes: ''King Mongkut is hardly known in the West except in the grotesque caricature popularised by Rex Harrison in Anna and the King and by Yul Brynner in The King and I''.
		Anna and the King of Siam was released in 1946 and starred Rex Harrison and Irene Dunne.
	members.tripod.com /king_anna/articles1.html (4233 words)

	aboutfilm.Com - Anna and the King (1999)
		The most famous of the prior adaptations (which included 1946's Anna and the King of Siam and this year's animated feature The King and I) was, of course, the intolerably racist 1956 film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1951 musical, The King and I.
		Later in the story, when Anna and the King shows Mongkut taking Anna's advice and treating her as an equal, as we know he eventually will, we see that it is because he is choosing to do so, not because of Anna's ability to steamroll him.
		Anna discovers that some of the servants in the palace are being treated abominably, and, as Anna gets to know the King's family, it becomes clear to her that the wives are little more than slaves themselves.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/a/annaandtheking.htm (1697 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Anna and the King
		December 20, 1999 -- "Anna and the King" is yet another adaptation, like "The King and I" and "Anna and the King of Siam" based on the writings of Anna Leonownens, governess to the Court of Siam in the 1860s.
		Anna becomes more than the teacher of his children, however, she also becomes his confidant, and later, the love of his life.
		In Anna's diary it is a burning, not a beheading and she saw it with her own eyes, not as depicted in the film.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/annaking.html (740 words)

	Anna and the King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna and the King is a 1999 motion picture loosely based on the story of Anna Leonowens, who was an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the 19th century.
		Sometime later, when the King finds that one of the monkeys has "borrowed" his glasses, as his daughter used to do, he is comforted by his belief in reincarnation and the idea that the Fa-ying may be reborn as one of her beloved animals.
		Anna pleads with the King to be merciful, but he says that if Anna had not come to him, he could have done something; since she did, if he helped Tuptim now it would look to others as though he were taking direction from a woman, which would be unseemly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_and_the_King (908 words)

	Royalty.nu - King Mongkut of Siam (Rama IV) and Anna Leonowens - The Real "King And I"
		Although historians question the accuracy of Anna's version of her life story as well as her account of life in the Siamese court, her two books (The English Governess at the Siamese Court and The Romance of the Harem) created great interest in King Mongkut and Siam that continues to this day.
		The most recent film adaptation is Anna and the King, released in late 1999 and starring Jodie Foster as Anna.
		Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, illustrated by Margaret Ayer.
	www.royalty.nu /Asia/Thailand/Mongkut.html (1339 words)

	Political Film Society - Anna and the King
		Anna's story, recorded in grossly fabricated diaries novelized by Margaret Landon as Anna and the King of Siam, has inspired a stage play, a musical, and four films, the latest known as Anna and the King, directed by Andy Tennant.
		Anna (played by Jodie Foster) displays righteous indignation, if we are to believe the absurd story, in just the ways in which King Mongkut (played by Chow Yun-Fat) must learn in order to know how to appear more civilized to his chief threat, the English.
		Anna, in turn, adapts to Thai customs, and the audience with her learns that Thais have irrepressible humor as well as a certain charismatic dignity mixed with humility.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/annaking.html (460 words)

	AsianWeek: A&E: Magic Missing from Anna and the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born and raised in British India, where she married a clerk who died when Leonowens was still in her 20s, Anna was the fourth in a series of schoolteachers hired by the court of Siam to instruct the royal household in English, history and science.
		It’s improbable that King Mongkut, who studied both English and Latin prior to Anna’s arrival and successfully safeguarded Siam from the formidable British and French colonial maneuverings, was politically or romantically swayed by an English teacher.
		Plucky Anna accepts the challenge, but finds it more difficult to reconcile herself to the reality that the Siam governed by King Mongkut, is far more enlightened than she had believed.
	www.asianweek.com /1999_12_23/ae_annaandtheking.html (1129 words)

	Anna and the King of Siam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 book by Margaret Landon, a play and a 1946 movie directed by John Cromwell.
		Based on the diaries of Anna Leonowens, a British governess in the Royal Court of Siam (now modern Thailand) during the 1860s, the story mainly concerns the culture clash of the Imperialist Victorian values of the British Empire with the autocratic rule of Siam's King Mongkut.
		Her letter from the King asking her to come to Siam includes a promise that she will have a house of her own away from the Palace, but the Kralahome says she will have to stay in the harem for now (although she'll have a private room there).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_and_the_King_of_Siam (1869 words)

	Anna and the King of Siam, 1946 with Rex Harrison
		Anna and the King of Siam, 1946 with Rex Harrison
		Her most interesting and significant contribution was to argue that adhering to the rule of law, superseding the privileges of power, this is the core test of a civilized person or society.
		The king's virtue came in the self-discipline to override the very strong, deeply ingrained traits of royal ego to accept what he recognized was a good idea.
	www.morethings.com /fan/anna_and_the_king_of-siam.htm (1015 words)

	The Audio Revolution Review of 'Anna and the King'
		Anna, who has lost her husband a year ago, is British to the core, despite having spent much of her life in India.
		The King, who is by and large an intelligent, concerned ruler, is intrigued with this new addition to his court.
		However, ‘Anna and the King’ is also a major studio, big-budget spectacle, aware of the expectations that come with its genre.
	www.avrev.com /movies/annaking/index.html (679 words)

	Book Review: Anna and the King of Siam
		In the early 1860's, Anna Leonowens went to Siam at the King's invitation to teach his children and wives in English language and customs.
		The slaves and oppressed in Siam found her to be a sympathetic ear and would often try to rectify their situations.
		Anna Leonowens stands out as a strong woman who would stand up to a King and the others who would try to push her down into "her place".
	www.jandysbooks.com /nonfic/annaking.html (341 words)

	ANNA & THE KING
		When Margaret Langdon turned Anna’s memoirs into a best-selling novel in 1944, it took only a dozen years to spawn the drama Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit musical The King and I, as well as the theatrical version.
		First up in 1999 was the critically panned dud The King and I — an animated remake of the musical with horribly stereotypical characters and a villain that had suddenly developed supernatural powers.
		Anna, twenty-three months a widow, is hired to become the royal tutor for the children of the King of Siam (now Thailand) in 1862 Bangkok.
	www.sick-boy.com /annaandtheking.htm (721 words)

	Anna and the King of Siam (1946 b 128') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Anna Owens (Irene Dunne) and her son Louis (Richard Lyon) arrive in Bangkok in 1862 to tutor the King's children.
		Anna is taken to a house but rejects it and stays in the palace.
		Anna is teaching the children again and advising the King.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1946/AnnaandKingofSiam.html (525 words)

	The King and I: Fact or Fiction?
		Anna was not employed as a governess, nor did she figure highly in the Royal Court.
		King Mongkut kept extensive diaries and in the years that Anna was there, he only mentioned her once and then only briefly.
		"Anna and the King" is an epic tale set in Thailand in the late 19th Century, and chronicles the true life adventures of British governess Anna Leonowens, who is hired by the King of Siam to educate his fifty-eight children.
	www.thaistudents.com /kingandi (1498 words)

	Anna and the King (1999). Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel.
		Anna arrives in Siam with her lively son Louis, a boy not impressed by titles or ceremonials.
		In reality too, research has concluded that Anna never even met the King; that she was a teacher, not a governess; that, that, that ---ad infinitum....
		Anna's diaries, written when Siam was still a "terra incognita" to most of the world, overflow with fabrications.
	www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/anna_and_the_king.htm (1377 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Anna and the King of Siam at Epinions.com
		It is impossible to avoid comparing "Anna and the King of Siam" to the 1956 musical adaptation "The King and I".
		Anna (Irene Dunne) is also more capable of tears and is less smug than her Deborah Kerr counterpart.
		The story is based on the true story of Anna Leonowens, a widowed teacher who travels to Siam (modern-day Thailand) in 1862 to tutor the King's children.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-3615-A134C3C-3870290B-prod1 (484 words)

	Amazon.com: Anna and the King of Siam: Books: Margaret Landon,Margaret Ayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The king's many children are eager to start their lessons, as is Anna, but little did they know that they would become more like friends than like a school teacher and her young pupils.
		Margaret Landon's `Anna and the King of Siam' is an intriguing, historical tale based on ancient, Siamese records and the secret diaries, letters, and conversations of Anna in Bangkok that reads like fiction but is amazingly genuine [some parts].
		Prince Chulalongkorn, Anna's most prominent and smartest pupil, is heir to the throne on account of being the eldest; she attempts to steer him onto the positive path of ruling the country justly.
	www.amazon.com /Anna-King-Siam-Margaret-Landon/dp/0060187905 (2246 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Anna and the King" review (1999)
		Because "Anna and the King" stands on its own remarkably well, it may be unfair to begin this review with a comparison to "The King and I," the most famous film adapted from the same source material.
		The third most striking thing about "Anna and the King" is the intricate, intimate performances of its stars, which comes as no surprise at all, as they're both irrefutably the best choices in the film biz for the title roles.
		But "Anna and the King" is truer to the real Leonowens' memoirs than the classic musical ever could be.
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/annaking.html (662 words)

	James Sanford reviews Anna and the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It feels slightly strange not to hear "Getting to Know You" when Anna is introduced to her scores of Siamese pupils and though the screenplay retains the famous scene in which Anna is literally swept off her feet by the king at a ball, "Shall We Dance" is conspicuously absent from the soundtrack.
		Anna, on the other hand, is the walking embodiment of all the glorious traits Britain once attached to its policies of Colonialism: She's single-minded but proper to a fault and knowledgeable but not overbearing.
		Jodie Foster's Anna is a strong-willed widow with backbone and determination, who announces upon her arrival in the Orient that "the ways of England are the ways of the world," but slowly begins to find value in certain aspects of the Siamese approach to life.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/1999/annaandtheking.html (507 words)

	Anna And The King
		Based on diaries of the real Anna Leonowens, this accounting of her experience also contains political intrigue, but is mostly centers on her relationship with the King.
		Story-Anna and her son arrive in Siam, hired by the King through correspondence to teach his son.
		While insisting on Siam customs, he is a real softy with his children, always kissing his little girl goodnight, even during a state dinner.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/annaking.html (629 words)

	SilverScreenArchive - Details for Anna and the King of Siam (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leonowens (Irene Dunne) and her son travel to the tiny kingdom of Siam, where she has been hired to teach Western ways and culture to the multitudes of children sired by the King (Rex Harrison).
		All too soon, however, the King and Anna clash over the differences in their ways and cultures; Anna is also drawn into a palace romance between the concubine, Tuptim (Linda Darnell), and another man, which ends in tragedy.
		Whereas The King And I focused on the budding relationship between Anna and the King, the non-musical version is a more straightforward reading of Margaret Landon's book about the real Anna Leonowens.
	www.silverscreenarchive.com /movieDisplay.jsp?movieID=7143&name=Anna_and_the_King_of_Siam_1946 (233 words)

	Anna and The King - Movie Preview
		All this, however, turned out to be an added bonus for Tennant, who was fascinated by Anna and the King long before the casting was locked in.
		Four years earlier, the story had been a Broadway hit, and the screen version boasts Deborah Kerr as Anna - a role that all but defined the rest of her career - with Yul Brynner, who was launched into stardom by his playing of the King.
		Anna did just that but, in the process of trying to change the culture, she changed herself too.”
	www.preview-online.com /nov_dec/feature_articles/annaandtheking/anna2.html (595 words)

	Filming Locations for Anna and the King
		The original Anna Leonowens, on whose memoir the story is based, seemingly exaggerated her importance in, and influence on, the Siamese court to the detriment of King Mongkut.
		The implied romantic aspect seems a little dubious, since Anna Leonowens was 28 when she arrived in Siam, while King Mongkut was a deeply religious man of nearly 60.
		And, far from being historical, the subplot was based on Anna Leonowensí fictional novel Romance of the Harem.
	www.movie-locations.com /filmarchive/a/annaking.html (283 words)

	Parent Previews: Anna and the King of Siam
		In this 1946 telling, the widow (Irene Dunne) sets sail for Siam in the 1860s, arriving in the "still half barbaric" country with her son Louis (Richard Lyon) and superior attitude in tow.
		When released in 1946, Anna and the King of Siam was banned in Thailand (the modern name for the ancient country.) And no wonder.
		King Mongkut wrestles between modernizing his country and hanging on to old traditions.
	movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=1393 (735 words)

	Video - Anna & King of Siam - VHS Tape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The story of British teacher Anna Leonowens and her sojourn to the court of 19th century Siam has proved irresistible to many generations--as book, movie, or Broadway show.
		One of the best books I have ever read is Margaret Landon's true story of Anna Leonowens, who at the age of 33, went to Siam as a governess to tutor the king's children.
		A widow of incredible courage and talent, her story is moving as well adventurous, and this film is a marvelous adaptation of Anna's time in that strange and foreign land, with her small son to take care of.
	www.video.product-mix.com /N-6302989590--Anna-King-of-Siam.html (280 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)