KING AND I THE: A good, unusual selection of individual signed cards, pieces, colour 8 x 10 photograph (1) by various actors and the composer and dramatist of the musical The King and I (1951) comprising composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (a good card signed by both individually and inscribed by Rodgers to the Irish actress Doreen Duke, who starred as Tuptim in the 1953 performance of the musical at the Drury Lane theatre in London, ‘For Doreen O’Tuptim: May the fates smoyle on you tonight and may you be big but with honorable guests of Siamese King….’, the card originally accompanying a good luck bouquet presented by Rodgers and Hammerstein on the occasion of the first night), Gertrude Lawrence (Anna Leonowens in the original Broadway production, 1951), Deborah Kerr (Anna Leonowens in the film version, 1956) and Yul Brynner (King Mongkut of Siam). Each of the signatures and photograph are attractively matted together in pink and pale green and framed and glazed in a decorative gold coloured wooden frame to an overall size of 14.5 x 21.5. VG