Yeah, watching it as a 9 year old girl, and watching it now as a 74 year old woman, makes a big difference. Seeing it again brought tears to my eyes. When the movie and the stars were nominated for Academy Awards, I asked my mother to wake me up if Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr won. Yul Brynner won for best actor that night, and as promised, my mother woke me up so I could see it.
My parents went to see the play. When they stated how many children he had, my father yelled “He had help!”. My mother said she wanted to crawl under her seat. LOL