Plot SynopsisThe film""s opening title heralds the celebration of July 4th in an anonymous town in the year 1900:The nation on holiday! Fireworks! Parades! Picnics! Celebrating America""s 124th birthday! - but what was a little hing like the Declaration of Independence compared to the great event happening in the Sims household?In an upstairs bedroom where a midwife and family doctor attend the hero""s birth - a startlingly-realistic scene - the doctor lifts (feet-first) a naked baby boy from its mother""s bed and slaps it twice on its bottom.Three of its other four nominations were supporting acting nods (for a total of four): Best Supporting Actor (Lee J.As Anna was about to be introduced to King Mongkut""s many children ("the royal princes and princesses"), she stressed how she might be leaving: "If there is to be no house, I shall have o get back to the boat before it sails," but he ignored her threat and imperiously commanded her to meet his royal children.As a parting gift and token of his sincerity, he offers her his mother""s coiled snake bracelet [a symbol of female domesticity] and places it on her wrist.