Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King | The Hollywood Collection

surreality bills shall bear my name a woman that he loves shall bear my child so it shall be written so it shall be done as mean as Ramses is and as hard hearted as he is all through the movie you still love him that is eul's personality here was a man who was bald he had the courage and the security to be totally bald and yet be one of the sexiest men that women will today tell you that is the sexiest man I've ever seen I don't know if he knew how mysterious he was all I know is that he was a mesmerizing he could enchant people he could dominate people I'll tell you what I can do he can kill the first man who so much as whispers the word about giving up the very first man so help me outlaw his head off he was the king you walked into his dressing room and immediately you had the aura that you were in the presence of a great star a great performer a great solid magnetic personality he never stopped there was one story that you started as a gypsy that it was born in Outer Mongolia that it was more than Switzerland that he was American French Swiss and several other nationalities the story I heard was that he was born on the island of Sakhalin off of the island of Japan and it was nyla uh he was born of a black Mongolian gypsy mother who died giving birth to him his father was Japanese and Swiss and he told you cuckoo wild stories about being a Mongolian Prince Mongolian this ATAR all kinds of stuff no one ever knew and he liked keeping some sort of mystery and I think that each time he gave an interview he gave a different version of his pasture where he was born he realized early in his career as an actor that interviewers were simply not going to get his complicated childhood story correct so rather than deal with the errors that they introduced to his story he employed the full powers of his imagination to create myths about himself no I think about yours past and all the different demons that drove him always found it interesting that as close as we were we talked mostly about the present and mostly about the future move you up in a period of extraordinary turmoil and a place of immense violence he grew up in Vladivostok and the nearby region in eastern Siberia at a time when the Russian Revolution was spreading to Eastern Russia Yul's father Boris left his mother Marusya when you was about seven or eight years old and I think a defining moment in his life according according to Yul was when he had looked forward for months to seeing his father boys visit in Shanghai while the family was there and he waited and waited and waited and Boris never appeared he never talked about his father much and when he did it wasn't with great tenderness it was with quite a bit of rejection when the family fled China for Paris in the 1930s Paris was the center of the whole white Russian world his family put him in a very strict and very famous and well-established school he sort of left his family life and mother and sister to do their little you know cozy life and went off to make a living in different areas and spent all the time that he could with the Gypsy families who performed in a variety of Russian restaurants and and clubs and you will had already come from the Orient with a seven string gypsy guitar which he already played and the gypsies taught him many many many songs which he remembered clearly and would often perform until the end of his life and then that night he would play the guitar in these gypsy clubs he started being a Acrobat at the cfd there when he was 17 or 18 he fell from the trapeze they said he would never walk again but in fact he was back in the circus a couple months later although unable to perform as an acrobat he began performing as a clown and it was when he was performing as a clown that he first met his great professor of acting Michel Chekhov who was the co-founder of the mouth guards theatre with Stanislavski and with whom you traveled to America in 1941 through his work with Michael Chekhov he decided to give acting a chance I don't know how much he really decided that he was going to be to start still speaking almost no English very little English that you will began performing small roles in the Shakespearean productions which played only in colleges and very small theatres and at the same time you would drive the truck that carried the costumes and sets from one town to another Yul was 21 22 years old you'll was during the war unable to serve in any Armed Forces because he had tubercular scars on his lungs but performed service for the Office of War Information and Broadcasting News in French vodcast by the voice of freedom overseas and at the same time he was performing some of the same gypsy songs that he done in Paris at nightclubs around New York Yul was married to a lady named Virginia Gilmore very well-known actress and she'd was in a play with my wife and Jackson and he had hair in those days and at night sometimes after the show we'd all go out together or go to their house they'd come to us and he would sit and sing wonderful Russian songs gypsy songs have played a guitar my mother who was already an established film star not of immense proportions but she had starred in joven wiles first film in america swamp water and in a variety of other films tall dark and handsome western union and she had starred in a couple plays on Broadway she was a great beauty she was everything that he liked in a woman she was very feminine she was an actress she was involved in his environment in the environment too made him dream he fell madly in love and knew how to do that quite well and they soon had a son which was something that he had hoped for and wished for somehow or other having auditioned for parts as an actor at the very beginning of regular television broadcasting in 1946-47 he landed a job directing television some of the very first broadcasts well when I first met you I was an assistant director at CBS in New York television and I was working with Sidney Lumet who had been eul's assistant director and Yul was a myth to me because Sidney kept telling me these great stories of what it was like to work with him in live TV you'll always was a nonconformist you always was his own man Yul had been directing two and three dramatic shows a week but CBS wasn't content with that so they said okay you're going over on Sunday night and you're going to direct What's My Line at ten minutes of 10 you will just arrive to completely calm and then he said to the script girl I want you to tell me when he's twenty-five minutes past the hour so he went on the air with the thing and he directed camera one on the contestant camera two on the panel camera three and the narrator and he was as bored as one could be doing that kind of thing at twenty-five minutes past the hour the girl said it's 25 minutes past the hour mr. Brenner and he said fine he said we will do the credits now and they said but we have four minutes for the credits he said we don't do them yet he said we're doing them now so he put all the credits on and there was still about three and a half minutes to go on the show and he said put my credit on the easel there he said all right camera one he said my credit camera truly said go on the audience she said doesn't say honey shoot him to clap anyway they had three minutes of applause with Yul Brynner directed and the producers were trying to rip the control room door down and the whole thing I mean it was just absolute chaos in the studio at the end of which time he was never asked back to direct one of those shows again and it was yours idea of saying hey don't screw with me he was directing and he was having a great time and he was surrounded by fantastic people and through his studies with Michael Chekhov the doubt came whether he should act or should not act and people were pushing him to acting he was initially offered to play in itself and that was a great temptation for him and he did it your continued directing for CBS through leat song which then went on the road and when he came back to New York he was directing again the star for the King and I heard Rodgers and Hammerstein's desire was Gertrude Lawrence she was this fantastic actress of this great woman and they were looking for somebody to play opposite Gertrude Lawrence and apparently my father came in for the addition with a guitar in his hand walked onto the stage sat down and started playing the guitar and singing these gypsy songs in front of Rodgers and Hammerstein and a group of other people who just could not believe what they were seeing Gertie Lawrence who was of course the the absolute star of their children it opened she was alone above the title the King has only one complete song really participates in two but the score is virtually virtually mrs. Anna alone but today nobody remembers anything except you when at the King of Siam there was his friend I ain't sheriff who designed the costumes for the king and I said to him shave your head and whether Isis history you actually went on directing CBS shows for the first year or so that he was also performing a chose a weak Stein on Broadway the Cana was a was such a great boom it was such an unexpected huge success that it really propelled him to the forefront of of the acting career and I think it was more than anybody could possibly resist you have been most ungrateful to me what do you mean he had done one film better forgotten called Port of New York in the 1940s I swear it you're a bad risk but the first film that he actually starred in was the 10 commandments the 10 commandments had first been made by Cecily DeMille in 1923 in 1952 he and Henry wilcoxon the man whose autobiography I assisted in writing decided that they would do a remake of the Ten Commandments for modern audiences in color VistaVision the whole works and they began a four year journey of pre-production there was a big search on for the man to play Ramses and they had a very very particular special problem with the Ramses role because DeMille wanted it is authentic as possible and that meant that the leading men would have to shave their heads the biggest people in contention were William Holden Michael Wilding and Michael Rennie everybody was sort of biting their lips about what would they look like if they shave their head and would the public had set them with shaved heads in addition to the fact that it was so vital that the men wear eye makeup all Egyptian men at that time had to wear eye makeup because it was a form of insect repellent and blindness was a big problem at Nijo he's agonizing he looks at people over and over and he couldn't make a decision on anyone and he saw Yul Brynner in the king and I and this man who had taken years to try to make up his mind between two actors and this man who never made a snap judgment was backstage after the first act telling Yul he was the only person to play Ramses DeMille had said to you Oh would you like to be in a film that your children and grandchildren will watch with pride 50 years from now and indeed that came true will not be the first time the thing has turned a prince against his Pharaoh all that envy has turned a brother again his brother envies for the week I don't think there's any other person at that time and I can't think of anybody now they could have said those lumps worn those costumes walk in those platform gold sandals and had the authority and the bearing had the streak of meanness that Rameses had and yet as mean as Ramses is and is hard-hearted as he is all through the movie you still love him that is eul's personality it comes through you love this man no matter what he says and no matter what he does you are saved from the Nile to be a curse upon me your shadow fell between me and my father between me and my fame me and my queen not many people loved the mill people respected him people feared him and something very special happened between them you loved his way of dressing his way of behaving demo was always impeccable and I think he drew a lot from dimille's personality remember you has born death to the slaves thanks to the God you're Brenner was you know one of the original Mavericks in the entertainment business he took no disrespect from anyone no matter how powerful the head of the studio or how large the other star and he had very very little patience with studio heads the suits the executives who had no creative power or real creative interest and he regarded them as parasites and he fought them tooth and nail really throughout his film career and frankly I don't remember Walter Lang ever our director giving him a direction other than stand here because this is where your light is I don't think you could tell you anything about that role that he hadn't thought of and and and chewed and digested and spit out what was so very special about the King as you will created the role was that he was an animal imbued with the soul of an angel you was the king in real life on film there was no real difference I don't think actors ever felt cowed by him once they began to do scenes with him Deborah Carr was divine with him she was Anna in her way Anna Leonowens she was a Olivia in a always really English in' and on the mark that my father was getting ready to film anastasia and he had per contract approval on the cast for the movie and his first choice was Ingrid Bergman Ingrid her personal choices as to leave her husband for another man and have a child with that other man was really blacklisted in Hollywood fuel fought very strongly to have her because he felt she was the right one to incarnate anastasiya he did the ten commandments the king and I and Anastasia all in a period of about 18 months and all three films opened in 1956 giving him a meteor meteoric rise to stardom and a he is one of the very few performers ever to have had two nominations as Best Actor for two separate films the King and I and Anastasia and took great delight in the fact that his co-star in Anastasia Ingrid Bergman won her second Academy Award for that performance it's the biggest night of the year in Hollywood as Oscar steps into the spot but he of course won the Academy Award his best actor for the King and I I hope they didn't make a mistake in getting this to me because I'm not going to give it back for anything in the world I think that throughout his career my father was somewhat typecast following the king and I people offered him rose that showed him as a strong man as a macho man you must remember that you was dealing in a medium the movies where he was unique physically unique with a slight accent his physical aspect was very limiting because he was very strong looking but the fact that he was bald was in some ways at disadvantage he was not as he liked to joke your average clean-cut American kid and so producers and directors did not normally think of him for conventional rules I came here today my father was always proudest of his performance on screen in my brother's count-outs off I want to change my life that life a certain death go away find a new life going away with crucian you never get her she's coming to me tonight I'm sure of it why such a man alive you I am Paris tell them no but next time I will the most distinguishing characteristic of the man a willpower that wasn't stopped by pain by inconvenience by adversity in the world I got an extraordinary example of that when I was about six years old when we had indeed gone to darien to go waterskiing for the one afternoon he had off because he was doing eight shows a week on broadway and his wardrobe man Don Lawson threw him the tow-rope and it hit my dad's head and put a big gash in his head and that was going to ruin our day's waterskiing instead he opened the fishing tackle kit that he had and he found one fish hook and little fish fishing line and he found some gaffers tape so in just a moment or two he with the fish hook put one stitch in the gash in his head slapped a piece of gaffers tape over it jumped in the water and went right on waterskiing nobody ever bothered as far as I can discern to write roles for Yule now in the old days that used to happen they'd say let's do a vehicle for Clark Gable or let's do a vehicle for Veronica Lake or Lana Turner whomever at the time that you came into movies that no longer existed no one was writing special screenplays for special people and because of that Yul's career was very very limited well casting your Brenner in films they always took a certain amount of of creativity and and Trust on the part of the filmmakers involved because you'll with his incredibly strong physical appearance and his his intellect that you shown in his eyes and his shaved bald plate brought Yul Brynner and the King to every part the truth is that I don't think people would have accepted him in anything other than kingly roles and in a funny way he was hoisted by his own petard too because I don't know that he could play a scene where he had to be vulnerable truly vulnerable Yul didn't try to play away from type he tried to play his strengths and if you looked at his string of movies the only ones that ever were not watchable were the ones where he put some silly hairpiece on which he only did twice to my knowledge there was a movie called Solomon and Sheba which was an enormously expensive production being filmed in Madrid and Tyrone Power who originally had played Solomon died and ruled over broke dude purposely was bored had to have a happy so this hairpiece had to match Tyrone Power and it you made a lot of fun of that Happy's it was a very expensive production and I can remember that a lot of Hollywood bigwigs from the studios came and supervised everything now I just met you just before and we're tired power dad and you was called in to replace him he wasn't in very good shape because his merit had collapsed and he was having a few drinks my father met my mother Doris at a party in Versailles it was the 50s and it was really the glamorous time and my mother was very well-connected in that life in Paris she knew a lot of people she was unbelievable beauty and they fell madly in love that same evening as their relationship evolved and as they got married I think she brought to him a social life which he wasn't particularly keen on she was one of Europe's best dressed women she went to criteria such as Valentina and balance yoga and she brought to him a whole sophistication and taste which he knew about instinctively but didn't really know about materially speaking and he had this wonderful this fantastic personality he was strong he was brig eras he was sexy he was good-looking here he was talented he was reliable he was marvelous he was marvelous he was at the prime of everything I think anybody can have I had a wonderful thirteen-year-old and there he was you know this Punk of a fella with no hair we got married in 1960 during the Magnificent Seven with you all who went to cassava and bought the rights to the Seven Samurai and brought them to America and sold them to United Artists and it became the Magnificent Seven new in town yeah where you from dark yeah tombstone see any action up there don't those same people old settle down a second story window gettin moved I'm not a good position let him stick a nickel I got dominated real good we always felt on the set that Steve McQueen was going to become a star mainly because of his attitude and there was a kind of an arrogance there are scenes when the Magnificent Seven are on their horses going through somewhere he'd get a twig and ripple the water so sure I concentrated on him and then he somehow created a feud with your in which the papers picked up and then you'll issued a tourist statement saying I never feud with actors I only feud with Studios III don't know how to define his ability to function in front of the camera he felt comfortable with the camera also because he knew all the lenses he knew all about photography so that when he appeared on that in front of the camera he knew exactly where to stand how to move in her how how to be y los noches just a little gesture sure these people who the real bosses not many people know that you and Magnum the Year famous photography enclave used to use you la la he was a wonderful wonderful photographer I think you'll enjoy to be part of both worlds he certainly was for the underdog and and the enjoy being an outsider and [ __ ] side of his man the rings but at the same time he enjoyed all this entertained with the blowing of being a big star which was you know going to parties going to doe Ville you know play roulette and going very fast cars when you left America I came to live in Switzerland saying that it was his comfort his father was first which none of us believed and he really wanted to beat Swiss Victoria was born in Switzerland we had a house on the lake with dogs and horses and it was really a wonderful life waterskiing on the he was totally unsupported person in a turtle walk through an award loved waters and which was beautiful that was really very very very good my name is Fernando what he could do physically he was one of the most beautifully coordinated men I've ever known and in his 60s he could stand upside down supporting himself by one hand and do push-ups with his legs toward the ceiling so I began a stamp collection and you will Ave idli participated in his stamp collection and we began collecting United Nations refugee stamps and one thing led to another and the next thing we knew he was a special consultant to the United Nations for the refugee problem for the High Commissioner of refugees and was making two television documentaries on the world wide refugee problem from Hong Kong to the Middle East with Edward Armel and at the same time doing an extraordinary book of photographs about the problems of refugee children which he did with the incomparable Magnum photographer Inga Morales we worked with CBS but it was not easy to get entrance to the refugee camps it certainly wasn't easy to get permits because of sometimes Egyptian army was involved sometimes Jordanian military were involved and Giroux was absolutely fearless his gypsy background which he was very proud of gave him an incredible sense of belonging to wherever he was and when he was in America he was an American when he was in France where he lived for years he was French and when he was in China Japan the Far East he was Asian I was really very excited when I was first offered Tara's Bulba especially since you Bryna would be starring as teres Boober we all set off to Argentina to stop the film your name Tara's Bulba Colonel of dumansky cos I know and a motion picture to the wonders of the world Harold X Horace boomba the story is a big melodrama between father and son during the Cossack period in in Russia the Gauchos were magnificent horsemen and we had about 500 to 700 in one shot and it was explained to them that if they fell off their horses they would get a considerable amount of extra pay but the people who were to fall were to be selected well then the shot was taken the obvious happened out of five or six hundred Gauchos but 400 odd fell to the ground when that evening they tried to get their money they were told that they didn't obey the instructions which were that only the selected horsemen would fall this upset the Gauchos extremely and they said they would strike they would not come back the next day now the Gauchos lived in the fields with their horses and that night you Brynner ordered hundreds of steaks had them sent out there and he himself went out and for three hours he gave a concert to the Gauchos playing and singing Russian songs French songs English songs it was like an Argentinean Woodstock will this so impressed the Gauchos they were so happy about this they all came back the next day the first cut that we dubbed you was delighted with he saw it in Paris and we dubbed him in Paris and he was really overwhelmed by it the next time he saw it I think he wanted to commit suicide we sometimes take films that we shouldn't take if there's one good scene in a film you think that you can put all the other scenes for John so good right very rarely works two things were playing against him the business of stereotyping or typecasting particularly in films and then the business of doing what comes easiest to you in a way you're taking the easy way out but it is a trap it's a terrible trap and it's a trap also because people love you so much in it and you get such accolades and such adulation such adoration for being that one character I that would make me suicidal I would be terribly terribly depressed and who knows what that he wasn't he smoked too much he would smoke constantly and he just never really as far as I remember made any effort to stop it he enjoyed smoking and he smoked smoking I think was a part of his life it was something you did it was something glamorous it was something sexy and he knew about access so he did it with accesing we were talking about how so many people put up these barriers and refused to allow themselves to be ever involved with anybody or anything and particularly in terms of loving a woman and he said you know he said all these people that say they don't want to be hurt he said for god sake he said being hurt he said you know that's reminds me he said if somebody who goes to the greatest restaurant in the world and has the greatest dinner they've ever had and then is upset when the check comes he said being hurt is getting the check the trouble with you and I was at a certain point the love was still there but we couldn't live with each other we had we clashed but I know that I want to believe that he loved me and I loved him but we just couldn't live together you didn't talk to me too much about his personal life the background of his father and and mother but when you that there was somewhere there was something that had hurt him in days gone by here was this man who was the king who overpowered Brailey everybody he came in contact with and yet you'd see him sometime sitting down and a glisten of Tears would come to his eyes and he would be thinking deeply of at something I knew that you with all his bombast was also a very human person who had been hurt and had now succeeded in largely covering up those moons sloppy with your drink you talk too much you move well what I find really quite amazing is his capacity of doing his role in West world really at the same level as he did his role in the Magnificent Seven he didn't allow his self image to go down even if all the science the exterior signs were pointing downwards and this was not a good phase in his career he would not allow that to happen the sort of to tentpoles at different dramatically different points in his career you know with a magnificent seven and west world both characters very similar both loners both strong tough men one real one a robot but the heart in both of them came through in both movies even though in this one he's a robot when they offered him to the role of the king and ion to bring it back to Broadway I think it was a godsend he had been waiting for a part he really wanted to do something and suddenly there was this material that was completely his that he had done for years in the very first rehearsal so thrilled and excited to play the King again he let his voice out full blast and damaged his vocal cords and on the opening night that we had in Indianapolis I barely knew him but I was his mrs. Anna and he had profound laryngitis I have never ever in my life heard anyone with laryngitis where he couldn't even whisper and so I proposed having grown up backstage at the king and I and heard over 500 performances personally that he would do the performance on stage and I would provide his voice from a seat beside the conductor in the orchestra pit with a microphone and his son Rock went into the pit and read the lines for him and he came onstage and gestured and I told him I said all you have to do is go out in front of that audience mr. Brenner they want to see you and you are the king and you will be the king for them I went backstage to see him during the intermission and we embraced and you will still with no voice whispered to me you must play the king older now rock I'm older you're playing him like the 30 year old you are now and I was then but now it's an older king he always would say about playing the king when I played it with him in the 70s that he had finally grown into the role that he was too young when he played it in 1951 and he had to make up for the role he suddenly didn't have to make up for it anymore the second time when we opened on Broadway it was a resounding success the critical response was overwhelming we had standing-room-only audiences for two years of URIs theatre you'll then went on to go to London when our show closed and he was a great success in London at the Palladium he then came back and he just couldn't give it up it was it was the great joy of his life and he did it until practically the day that he died and people didn't know when we danced on stage that he actually danced shall we dance did the Polka with a limp and so we both compensated for that limp that he had he looked very badly off stage but when he appeared on stage as the King of Siam the King didn't limp so he didn't limp it's very difficult to say where the King ended and where you'll Brynner began because he truly lived that role and he loved the role of the King in fact this long list of of supposedly producers laments that were his demands that he had to have it was published I think in variety one of his demands was that he be always supplied the this year's automobile a limousine and it had to be the finest car in its line and I asked him I said why did you require that of a producer and he said my darling can you imagine the car that a producer might give me if I didn't make this specific demand and he said do you know how disappointed my audience would be my fans standing in the street as I Drive out if I drove out in an old Ford keep instead of a lovely big limousine which we fitted the King of Siam it was all a joke to him I mean it was all part of a role that he liked to play he loved the fact that he was a star he loved the fact that they said the limousines for him that he was making all this money because he'd come from the place that there was no money you'll like to live well but I honestly think that if it all went he could have he could have lived with that - well Yul Brynner just owned that role I think more than any actor that I've known in modern times has ever owned a role I mean he worked on his curtain call for the King and on which is one of the great famous curtain calls of all time he worked hours and weeks perfecting just exactly what he was supposed to do with that it's way he's plain to me said it's a very difficult curtain call he said after all he said the man is dead he said I have to bring him back to life for the audience to do the curtain call because it was the probably most ah flagrant I just absolutely just it was unbelievable this curtain call all that children would come out they would bow all the other people in the court would come out the lady Anna would come out and bow then they would all turn upstage and wait and wait and wait and then the King would come out and he would bow and he would bow they turn take the children and bow all the time building building building until that moment when he suddenly throw his arms up and the audience almost jumped out of their seat it was very interesting to see him deal with the King and I almost as a corset it was something that held him together it helped him face whatever paints he had in his personal life in whatever paints he had physically he definitely had the back problems and those were excruciating and very difficult to deal with but he really considered himself this gypsy and and that he came from this mysterious romantic dark world of the wandering nomadic gypsy and somehow he believed it so strongly that you wanted to believe it too so we Chariton you sir I hold its own garbage of an old [ __ ] Belize through my young ears I recall mainly this big head holding my little hand in his hand and and reassuring about everything oh royalties and his coming in and out of my life it was always magic it was always mystery he had this amazing career and he could solve everything and he was bigger than the other men it was sort of this magical moment whenever he'd show up in my existence Zaza when the 70s he married as I clean to mushroom who was a wonderful French woman they desperately wanted children and couldn't have any and it was at the time where Vietnam was at its peak and all these Vietnamese children were needing homes desperately and he just thought it totally natural to take into our family too young in Vietnamese infants who are my little sisters me and melody and then we're great joy to him he's all he always had a very strong connection with very young children and we found ourselves in separations with different wives and we were always there and somewhat our point of rally was obviously him and I love to him my little sisters had to face one divorce I had to face two divorces the one of my mother and having barely gotten used to the his third wife Jaclyn another divorce my brother saw three divorces so we all sort of went through it and rallied to his side and made our time with him special he loved his children and I know that he was devoted especially the two wives I knew well the two last ones marvelous French Lady Jacqueline de l'homme and then Kassie Brynna who worked with him it's a principal dancer in the king and I during the last long tour he had all the patients and appetites and enormous elegance of a very secure male very few people that I've ever met wears mail and secure and their masculinity is brynjar I remember talking about relationships and about missing people and so forth and he said to me well he said just remember this he said you're born alone you live alone you die alone anything in between is a favor I recall very clearly the night that he called me and he said I don't have very good news and I said well what is it and he said I have lung cancer and I said well what is the what is the status and he said they've given me three months to live so from then on it was a battle to defy this disease and he kept on doing the king and I had a king and I gave him the structure something to go to every day something to fight for it gave him two and a half years which were two and a half years that we really hadn't hoped for well every everybody was after him for the news story I mean there was this man this very well-known man who had cancer who had announced it pretty officially and who was still working so he went on 60 minutes and it's something he had always thought about this idea of doing a commercial I really wanted to make a commercial when I discovered that I was that sick and my time was so limited what to make of commercial that says simply now that I'm gone I tell you don't smoke whatever you do just don't smoke if I could take back that smoking we wouldn't be talking about any cancer I'm convinced Atlanta cheap date until the 30th of June when you gave his final performance at the Broadway theater he made an appearance afterwards at a late night party and waved to the crowd he then went to visit the dying friend in Los Angeles all of this was agony agony and took great bravery and was dead less and two and a half a Siemens later I have never heard anyone since he came on the scene in the early 50s a he's a young Yul Brynner he's the new Yul Brynner he's the next year Brynner there's only one I have never heard anyone compare another actor with him or compare what he could do with what anyone else could do people who will live forever from century to century this Charles Chaplin I counted moment think of how many there are but one of those is certainly you Brynner Yul Brynner will be remembered through the years he was an original I guess there was more to his relationship to the to the part of the King then originally met the AIA but whoever cast him not only changed the fate of that altogether wonderful show but it changed his life I don't think any anything but the theater code ever offered him a kingdom and they did and he took it you

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Published: Tue Feb 23 2016