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Complete Change, sorry.
Yul Brynner would almost certainly not have been cast in "The King and I" on Broadway & the film without Mary Martin's close friendship with Rodgers and Hammerstein. Martin, Brynner and Nancy Davis Reagan did a musical on Broadway called "Lute Song." Mary Martin, "I just know Yul could play the king in the King and I.""
Martin was not thought about as a strong business woman. Brynner seldom won very important roles with the help of woman. I know this thread is all male, but roles are won and lost in very complex ways.