FACT & FANCIFUL FICTION: Hollywood plans to have another go at Anna Leonowens' account of King Mongkut's court have reopened debate., NATION From: The Nation (Thailand) | Date: November 8, 1998| Author: MANOTE TRIPATHI | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Nation (Thailand)

11-08-1998

IT is very doubtful whether that prim Victorian governess understood,
much less paid any credence to, the concept of reincarnation. But Anna
Leonowens, or rather her account of life at the court of King Rama IV in
the late 19th century, has been ''reborn'' several times. And yet another
rebirth is in the offing; a remake of her story which 20th Century Fox
wants to shoot on location in Thailand.

Laurence B...

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