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Original LIFE Magazine — May 28, 1956
LIFE Magazine May 28 1956 features Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner on the cover in “The King and I,” capturing two of the film’s stars during one of the most memorable musical productions of the 1950s.
The issue also highlights a feature on “The Frogman: His Last Hours and What He Was Looking For” and political coverage of Estes Kefauver, reflecting LIFE’s characteristic mix of entertainment, current events, politics, and photography.
- Cover Subject: Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner in The King and I
- Inside This Issue: The King and I with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner; “The Frogman: His Last Hours and What He Was Looking For”; political coverage of Estes Kefauver; plus LIFE’s signature news reporting, photography, culture, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Deborah Kerr collectors, Yul Brynner fans, The King and I memorabilia collectors, classic Hollywood enthusiasts, musical theater fans, 1950s movie collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the reporting, photography, advertisements, and editorial presentation seen by LIFE readers in May 1956, making it both a collectible entertainment issue and an authentic snapshot of mid-century American culture.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 30 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: In a Car Surplus Situation One Firm is in Real Trouble
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Disarming Hosts in Moscow?and a Realistic Reason for Disarming
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Mystery of Frogman Lionel Crabb’s Dive for Red Secrets
Pg… 48 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 50 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Requiem for 11 Nuns Killed in Puzzling Canadian Air Crash
Pg… 53 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Assembly Line Methods Speed the Building of the World’s Longest Overwater Highway Bridge, the 24–Mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
Pg… 80 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Gentle Old Man and His Love for Two Doves
Pg… 47 EDITORIAL: The Law and Southern Schools
Pg… 128 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Russians Pursue the Lively Arts: LIFE Looks at Russia’s Dogged Drive to Feed a People Famished for Culture: the First in a Series of Two Articles Photographed by Edward Clark
Pg… 162 CLOSE–UP: How Stumping Kefauver Stumps the Pros, by Robert Coughlan: Second in a LIFE Series on Democratic Candidates
Pg… 65 DANCE: Old Toes, New Pros: Retired 75–Year–Old Otto Krinke and His Wife Make a Lively New Professional Dancing Team
Pg… 70 ART: The Art Acquired by Yalemen: Six Pages of Color on an Alumni Show, Representing Classes from ’67 to ’51
Pg… 85 FASHION: Designer–for–the–Young Anne Klein Pares Down Lingerie to the Midsummer Minimum
Pg… 95 POETRY: “On this Wall, in this Town, in Their Own State”: Paul Engle’s Sonnets Salute Iowa’s War Dead on Memorial Day
Pg… 109 MOVIES: The King, His Camera and a Film Triumph: Yul Brynner is a Masterful Monarch and a Deft Photographer for “The King and I”
Pg… 116 ANIMALS: Tot’s Tarantula: a 2–Year–Old has Her Own Zoo at Home
Pg… 125 SCIENCE: Chivalrous Robot: G.E.’S New Machine Performs Elaborate Services at a Distance
Pg… 138 RELIGION: A Revolutionary New Church Shape in Mexico City
Pg… 143 MILITARY AFFAIRS: What It’s Like to Ride the “Nautilus”: LIFE Correspondent Clay Blair Tells About His Underwater Trip in the Nuclear–Powered Submarine
Pg… 151 EDUCATION: TV Teaches Foreign Language to First–Graders
Pg… 158 MODERN LIVING: Smothering Weeds with Plastic
Pg… 182 PARTY: Gala for a Great Friend from Indonesia
Pg… 22 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Fanciful Flights During Cleanup Day on the Movie Lot
Pg… 24 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 184 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Looks Like Horse Sense
