"to imitate him, and a shaven head was often referred to as the ""Yul Brynner look"". Brynner reprised his ""Shall We Dance?"" segment with Patricia Morison on the TV special """", broadcast March 28, 1954 on all four American TV networks of the time. Brynner's second motion picture was the film version of ""The King and I"" (1956) with Deborah Kerr. It was a huge success critically and commercially. Cecil B. de Mille hired him for ""The Ten Commandments"" (1956) to play Ramesses II opposite Charlton Heston after seeing him in the stage version of ""The King and I,"" telling"
"starring Gertrude Lawrence as Anna and the mostly unknown Yul Brynner as the king. This musical featured the hit songs ""I Whistle a Happy Tune"", ""Hello, Young Lovers"", ""Getting to Know You"", ""We Kiss in a Shadow"", ""Something Wonderful"", ""I Have Dreamed"", and ""Shall We Dance?"" It was adapted for film in 1956 with Brynner re-creating his role opposite Deborah Kerr (whose singing was largely dubbed by Marni Nixon). Brynner won an Oscar as Best Actor for his portrayal, and Kerr was nominated as Best Actress. Brynner reprised the role twice on Broadway in 1977 and 1985 and in a"
"1960, and Yul Brynner was one of the witnesses. The relationship between Kerr and Brynner was described by their close friends as ""sister and brother"" or ""equal to equal"", even if Kerr herself admitted that she was very much attracted by Brynner's magnetism and piercing eyes. They trusted each other and they used to visit one another while they both lived in Switzerland in the 1960s. This film was Jason Robards's screen debut. Ron Howard had appeared in an unbilled part in the 1956 film ""Frontier Woman"", but ""The Journey"" marked his first credited appearance; he was billed as Ronny"
"of Kilimanjaro"" (1952), ""The Barefoot Contessa"" (1954), ""Bhowani Junction"" (1956), ""On the Beach"" (1959), ""55 Days at Peking"" (1963), ""Seven Days in May"" (1964), ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1964), """" (1966), ""The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"" (1972), ""Earthquake"" (1974), and ""The Cassandra Crossing"" (1976). Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in London in 1990, at the age of 67. She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Gardner was born near the farming community of Grabtown, North Carolina. She was the"
"of 1956 by ""The Film Daily""'s Filmdom's Famous Five Poll. Heston was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama and later won the Fotograma de Plata Award for Best Foreign Performer in 1959. Yul Brynner won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his performance as Rameses. Cecil B. DeMille won many special awards for the film. He received, among others, the ""Los Angeles Examiner"" Award, the ""Boxoffice"" Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Picture of the Month (January 1957), the ""Photoplay"" Achievement Award, and"
"Dean and Rock Hudson). The other nominations came in the categories of Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mercedes McCambridge); Best Art Direction–Set Decoration, Color (Boris Leven, Ralph S. Hurst); Best Costume Design, Color; Best Film Editing; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Picture; and Best Writing, Best Screenplay – Adapted. Giant (1956 film) Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker,"
"Brynner backstage that he was the only person for the role. He rounded out his year with ""Anastasia"" (1956) co-starring with Ingrid Bergman under the direction of Anatole Litvak. Both films were big hits and Brynner became one of the most in-demand stars in Hollywood. MGM cast him as one of ""The Brothers Karamazov"" (1957), which was another commercial success. Less so was ""The Buccaneer"" (1958) in which Brynner played Jean Lafitte; he co-starred with Heston and the film was produced by De Mille but directed by Anthony Quinn. MGM used Brynner again in ""The Journey"" (1959), opposite Kerr under"
"capsule summary calls it ""one of Clark Gable's best postwar films, as well as one of the finest Hollywood satires of the rarefied world of advertising."" The VHS editions of ""The Hucksters"" are long out-of-print. Its first DVD release was finally announced in August 2011 as part of the Warner Archive Collection. The Hucksters The Hucksters is a 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable that marked the debut of Deborah Kerr in an American film. The supporting cast includes Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold and Ava Gardner. The movie is based on"
"Rukh Khan also had similar plot. A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film) A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American color film noir, directed by Gerd Oswald in his directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Lawrence Roman, based on Ira Levin's 1953 novel of the same name, which won the 1954 Edgar Award for ""Best First Novel."" The drama stars Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, and Mary Astor. It was remade in 1991 under the same title. Wagner plays a charming, intelligent man who will stop at nothing to get his life where he wants it"
"an Academy Honorary Award for her career in 1994. She was also nominated four times for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress: ""The End of the Affair"" (1955), ""Tea and Sympathy"" (1956), ""The Sundowners"" (1961) and ""The Chalk Garden"" (1964). She received one Emmy Award nomination in 1985 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for ""A Woman of Substance"". She was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for ""Edward, My Son"" (1949), ""Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"" (1957) and ""Separate Tables"" (1958). Deborah Kerr Deborah Jane Trimmer"
"by George Cukor, with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall. Her biggest international fame came from her starring role as Ensign Nellie Forbush in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""South Pacific"". For her performance, she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award. Gaynor followed this with a comedy at MGM, ""Happy Anniversary"" (1959) opposite David Niven, and the United Kingdom production ""Surprise Package"" (1960), a musical comedy thriller directed by Stanley Donen. Her co-stars were Yul Brynner and Noël Coward. The film had a theme song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn Her last film role"
"searching for dramatic stories for his newspaper. Over a 45-year movie career in Hollywood, between 1940 and 1986, Dehner appeared in no less than 126 feature films and shorts. He played Sheriff Pat Garrett in Gore Vidal's ""The Left Handed Gun"" opposite Paul Newman as Billy the Kid. He appeared too in ""Scaramouche"" (1952) as Doutreval of Dijon; and he played a district attorney in ""Please Murder Me"", an American film noir film released in 1956, a production directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Angela Lansbury and Raymond Burr. The following year, he performed a non-singing role of Mr. Bascombe,"
"Giant (1956 film) Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor, Elsa Cardenas and Earl Holliman. ""Giant "" was the last of James Dean's three films as a leading actor, and earned him his second and last Academy Award nomination – he was killed in a car accident before the film was released. Nick"
"The Sundowners (1960 film) The Sundowners is a 1960 Technicolor film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place. The film stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Chips Rafferty. The screenplay was adapted by Isobel Lennart from Jon Cleary's novel of the same name; it was produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann. At the 33rd Academy Awards, ""The Sundowners"" was nominated"
"Brynner had his first hit in years with ""Westworld"" (1973). His next two films were variations on this performance: ""The Ultimate Warrior"" (1975) and ""Futureworld"" (1976). Brynner returned to Broadway in ""Home Sweet Homer"", a notorious flop musical. His final movie was ""Death Rage"" (1976), an Italian action film. In addition to his work as a director and performer, Brynner was an active photographer and wrote two books. His daughter Victoria put together ""Yul Brynner: Photographer"" (), a collection of his photographs of family, friends, and fellow actors, as well as those he took while serving as a UN special"
"(or Sophronia) Louise Claiborne, was only two years old at the time of the battle. The romance with Lafitte is complete fiction. The Buccaneer (1958 film) The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film ""The President's Lady"". The film was shot in Technicolor and VistaVision, the story takes place during the War of 1812, telling a heavily fictionalized version of how the"
"popular local female star at the box office. In 1943, she played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"". During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers: ""I realised that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for"". Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as ""car"". To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer of MGM billed her as ""Kerr rhymes with Star!"" Although the British Army refused to co-operate with the producers—and Winston Churchill thought"
"Deborah Kerr as the lady and William Holden as the marine, two earnest and versatile performances are initially guaranteed. That is the virtue of this picture. Miss Kerr does a continuously interesting job as a nervous and self-pitying widow of a marine killed on Guadalcanal who falls for the rough, tough, ruthless major that Mr. Holden plays. And he, in turn, commands attention with the unrelenting vigor and sting that he gives to this hardbitten soldier who starts the chase with only one thing in mind."" ""The Proud and Profane"" was released in theaters on June 13, 1956. ""The Proud"
"a profit of $1,238,000. It recorded admissions of 1,554,970 in France. Bhowani Junction (film) Bhowani Junction is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1954 novel ""Bhowani Junction"" by John Masters made by MGM. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and Ivan Moffat. The film starred Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving in the Indian Army, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a (British) Indian Army officer. It also featured Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Lionel Jeffries and (uncredited) Neelo (who"
"wife, and children. The preacher lets Clay stay at the farm, reasoning that he can convince the outlaw to turn over a new leaf. Stranger at My Door (1956 film) Stranger at My Door is a 1956 American Western film directed by William Witney and starring Macdonald Carey, Patricia Medina and Skip Homeier. In 1991, a television film also entitled ""Stranger at My Door"" was released. The 1991 film had nothing in common with the 1956 release other than the title. Outlaw Clay Anderson and his gang rob the town bank and flee in different directions. Clay's horse gives out"
"Cooper and Patricia Neal; the musical, ""In the Good Old Summertime"", with Judy Garland and Van Johnson; George Stevens' ""A Place in the Sun"", starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters; the Cecil B. De Mille epic, ""The Greatest Show on Earth""; and the classic 1954 version of ""A Star is Born"", directed by George Cukor, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. She remained active in films till very late in life, making her last appearance in 1959's ""The Buccaneer"", directed by Anthony Quinn (his only directing credit), and starring Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, and Inger"
"Devil's Canyon (1953 film) Devil's Canyon is an American 1953 Western 3-D film directed by Alfred L. Werker. The film starrs Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally and Arthur Hunnicutt. Arizona, 1897: A female outlaw, Abby Nixon, warns a lawman, Billy Reynolds, that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds manages to kill both in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert prison known as Devil's Canyon. One of the prisoners there is a third Gorman brother, the ruthless Jesse, who intends to gain revenge for Reynolds having killed his kin."
"War and Peace (1956 film) War and Peace () is a 1956 American-Italian war drama film directed by King Vidor and written by Vidor, Bridget Boland, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini, Gian Gaspare Napolitano, Ivo Perilli, Mario Soldati, and Robert Westerby based on Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel of the same name. The film, released by Paramount Pictures, was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti with a music score by Nino Rota and cinematography by Jack Cardiff. The film stars Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer, along with Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, John Mills and Anita Ekberg, in"
"a Blu-ray release on 23 August 2010 through BFI. Applications for certification since 2000 have led to the film being rated as a ""12"" or ""12A"". ""The Infant Kiss"", a song by Kate Bush, from her 1980 album ""Never for Ever"", was inspired by the film. Mexican director Guillermo del Toro cites the film as an influence on his 2015 gothic horror film ""Crimson Peak"". The Innocents (1961 film) The Innocents is a 1961 British psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins. Based on the novella ""The Turn of"
"everything in his power to grant Reynolds and Abby a pardon for their crimes. Devil's Canyon (1953 film) Devil's Canyon is an American 1953 Western 3-D film directed by Alfred L. Werker. The film starrs Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally and Arthur Hunnicutt. Arizona, 1897: A female outlaw, Abby Nixon, warns a lawman, Billy Reynolds, that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds manages to kill both in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert prison known as Devil's Canyon. One of the prisoners there is a third Gorman brother,"
"and where he was before his blackout. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Costume Design, Black and White (Helen Rose) and Best Art Direction, Black and White (George Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, and Hugh Hunt). Mister Buddwing Mister Buddwing is a 1966 American film drama directed by Delbert Mann and starring James Garner. The film depicts a well-dressed man who finds himself on a bench in Central Park with no idea who he is. He proceeds to wander around Manhattan meeting women (Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury) as he desperately tries to"
"Yul Brynner, ""Justine"", and ""Puzzle of a Downfall Child"" with Faye Dunaway. He also appeared in the thrillers ""Asylum"" (1972) with Peter Cushing, ""Funeral Home"" with Kay Hawtrey and Lesleh Donaldson, (1980), and ""The Changeling"" with George C. Scott (1980). He worked on several Lacewood animated productions, notably as the voice of Dragon in ""The Railway Dragon"", alongside Tracey Moore who played Emily. In 1999 he filmed the dramatic comedy ""Taxman"" with Billy Zane, released as ""Promise Her Anything"" and on DVD as ""Nothing to Declare"". His final film appearance was in ""I Really Hate My Job"", released in 2007."
"The Buccaneer (1958 film) The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film ""The President's Lady"". The film was shot in Technicolor and VistaVision, the story takes place during the War of 1812, telling a heavily fictionalized version of how the privateer Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose between fighting for America or for the"
"the Moscow Art Theatre, and soon after abandoned his family. Yul's mother took his elder sister, Vera (January 17, 1916 – December 13, 1967), and him to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA. In 1932, fearing a war between China and Japan, she took them to Paris. Brynner played his guitar in Russian nightclubs in Paris, sometimes accompanying his sister, playing Russian and Roma songs. He trained as a trapeze acrobat and worked in a French circus troupe for five years, but after sustaining a back injury, he turned to acting. In 1938, his mother"
"as Deborah Kerr's double. In 1953 they made a new film together, ""Below The Sahara"", and appeared on BBC radio to promote it. The BBC saw the couple's potential for television work, and in 1954 they produced a pioneering and successful TV programme, ""Filming Wild Animals"". The quality of Armand Denis' film-making, combined with his heavy accent and Michaela's enthusiasm and glamorous appeal, made them fixtures on BBC TV screens in Britain during the 1950s and early 1960s. Accompanied by Armand's commentary, the two would be filmed getting as close to animals as possible, in a style later much parodied."
"a 1956 film for which Brynner won an Academy Award, and the musical was recorded several times. In later revivals, Brynner came to dominate his role and the musical, starring in a four-year national tour culminating in a 1985 Broadway run shortly before his death. Christopher Renshaw directed major revivals on Broadway (1996), winning the Tony Award for Best Revival, and in the West End (2000). A 2015 Broadway revival won another Tony for Best Revival. Both professional and amateur revivals of ""The King and I"" continue to be staged regularly throughout the English-speaking world. Mongkut, King of Siam, was"
"The Court Jester The Court Jester is a 1956 musical-comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker. The movie was co-written, co-directed, and co-produced by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. The film was released by Paramount Pictures in Technicolor and in the VistaVision widescreen format. Danny Kaye received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor – Comedy/Musical. Made for a cost of $4 million in the fall of 1955, it was the most expensive comedy film produced at the time. The motion picture bombed at the box-office on its release, bringing in"
"Bhowani Junction (film) Bhowani Junction is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1954 novel ""Bhowani Junction"" by John Masters made by MGM. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and Ivan Moffat. The film starred Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving in the Indian Army, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a (British) Indian Army officer. It also featured Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Lionel Jeffries and (uncredited) Neelo (who went on to become one of the leading ladies of the"