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}}| relatives = Lex Shrapnel (grandson)| signature = Deborah Kerr signature.svg}}Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921{{spaced ndash}}16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr ({{IPAc-en|k|É‘r}}), was a British actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first person from Scotland to be nominated for any acting Oscar.During her international film career, Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956). Her other major and best known films and performances are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947), Quo Vadis (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Grass Is Greener (1960), and The Night of the Iguana (1964).In 1994, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognizing her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance".NEWS,weblink British actress Kerr dies at 86, BBC News, 18 October 2007, 10 May 2010,

Early life

Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow,WEB,weblink Deborah Kerr profile, 19 October 2007, The Herald (Glasgow), The Herald, Glasgow, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071021045411weblink">weblink 21 October 2007, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (née Smale) and Capt. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire.BOOK,weblink Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008, Goldman, Lawrence, 7 March 2013, Oxford Univ Press, Oxford, 978-0199671540, 642, WEB,weblink Deborah Kerr biography (1921–2007), 29 October 2007, Filmreference.com, Young Deborah spent the first three years of her life in the Scottish west coast town of Helensburgh, where her parents lived with Deborah's grandparents in a house on West King Street. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund Charles (born 31 May 1926), who became a journalist. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004.NEWS, 'Road rage' killer's appeal win,weblink BBC News, 30 March 2006, NEWS, Killer's term cut,weblink Worcester News, 5 April 2006, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090722210505weblink">weblink 22 July 2009, Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, England, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks.NEWS,weblink Deborah Kerr, 2000, International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, St. James Press, Detroit, Richard, Sater, Robert, Pardi, 978-1558624498, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071020185730weblink">weblink 20 October 2007, She adopted the name Deborah Kerr on becoming a film actress ("Kerr" was a family name going back to the maternal grandmother of her grandfather Arthur Kerr Trimmer).Braun, Eric. Deborah Kerr. St. Martin's Press, 1978. {{ISBN|0-312-18895-1}}.

Early career

Early theatre and film

Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her début in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. After various walk-on parts in Shakespeare productions at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London, she joined the Oxford Playhouse repertory company in 1940, playing, inter alia, "Margaret" in Dear Brutus and "Patty Moss" in The Two Bouquets.Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. She had a strong support role in Major Barbara (1941) directed by Gabriel Pascal.WEB, Major Barbara, Time Out Worldwide, 2012-09-10,weblink 2024-02-16,

Film stardom

Kerr became known playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Critic James Agate wrote that Love on the Dole "is not within a mile of Wendy Hiller's in the theatre, but it is a charming piece of work by a very pretty and promising beginner, so pretty and so promising that there is the usual yapping about a new star".She was the female lead in Penn of Pennsylvania (1941) which was little seen; however Hatter's Castle (1942), in which she starred with Robert Newton and James Mason, was very successful. She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn (1942). She was an immediate hit with the public: an American film trade paper reported in 1942 that she was the most popular British actress with Americans.NEWS,weblink FILM NOTES., The West Australian, Perth, 7 December 1945, 9 July 2012, 13, National Library of Australia, Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers:BOOK, Powell, Michael, A Life in Movies, Faber, reprint, 2000, 978-0571204311, "I realised that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for". Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star!"NEWS,weblink Deborah Kerr, Actress Known for Genteel Grace and a Sexy Beach Kiss, Dies at 86, 19 October 2007, 20 October 2007, Douglas, Martin, The New York Times, {{Citation |title=Why Deborah Kerr Never Won an Oscar {{!}} Always Second Best Actress |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26kzCQ6SbxE |access-date=2024-02-16 |language=en}} Although the British Army refused to co-operate with the producers—and Winston Churchill thought the film would ruin wartime morale—Colonel Blimp confounded critics when it proved to be an artistic and commercial success.Powell hoped to reunite Kerr and lead actor Roger Livesey in his next film, A Canterbury Tale (1944), but her agent had sold her contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to Powell, his affair with Kerr ended when she made it clear to him that she would accept an offer to go to Hollywood if one were made.In 1943, aged 21, Kerr made her West End début as Ellie Dunn in a revival of Heartbreak House at the Cambridge Theatre, stealing attention from stalwarts such as Edith Evans and Isabel Jeans. "She has the rare gift", wrote critic Beverley Baxter, "of thinking her lines, not merely remembering them. The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing".Near the end of the Second World War, she also toured Holland, France, and Belgium for ENSA as Mrs Manningham in Gaslight (retitled Angel Street), and Britain (with Stewart Granger).BOOK, Keene, Ann T.,weblink Kerr, Deborah (1921-2007), actress, March 2011, Oxford University Press, American National Biography Online, 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1803828, Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). The film was a big hit in Britain. So too was the spy comedy drama I See a Dark Stranger (1946), in which she gave a breezy, amusing performance that dominated the action and overshadowed her co-star Trevor Howard. This film was a production of the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat.Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. The film was a hit in the US, as well as the UK, and Kerr won the New York Film Critics Award as Actress of the Year. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947.'Bing's Lucky Number: Pa Crosby Dons 4th B.O. Crown', The Washington Post 3 January 1948: p. 12. She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Hollywood

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

File:Deborah Kerr in Young Bess trailer.jpg|thumb|Kerr in Young BessYoung BessKerr's first film for MGM in Hollywood was a mature satire of the burgeoning advertising industry, The Hucksters (1947) with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy.WEB, McLellan, Dennis, Deborah Kerr, 86; 'Eternity' star, Los Angeles Times, 2007-10-19,weblink 2024-02-16, In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950).WEB, Please Believe Me, WarnerBros.com, 1950-05-12,weblink 2024-02-16, Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. King Solomon's Mines (1950) was shot on location in Africa with Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson.NEWS, Thomas F Brady, The New York Times, 23 July 1949, Deborah Kerr Gets Metro Movie Lead, {{ProQuest, 105803181, }} This was immediately followed by her appearance in the religious epic Quo Vadis (1951), shot at Cinecittà in Rome, in which she played the indomitable Lygia, a first-century Christian.She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) with Granger and Mason. In between Paramount borrowed her to appear in Thunder in the East (1951) with Alan Ladd.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

In 1953, Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar. She made Young Bess (1953) with Granger and Jean Simmons, then appeared alongside Cary Grant in Dream Wife (1953), a flop comedy.

From Here to Eternity and Broadway

Kerr departed from typecasting with a performance that brought out her sensuality, as Karen Holmes, the embittered American military wife in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which she and Burt Lancaster romped illicitly and passionately amidst crashing waves on a Hawaiian beach. The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.WEB,weblink AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions, American Film Institute, 15 February 2019, Having established herself as a film actress in the meantime, she made her Broadway debut in 1953, appearing in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Kerr performed the same role in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation released in 1956; her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) also appeared. In 1955, Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. After her Broadway début in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy.

Peak years of stardom

File:Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember trailer.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Kerr in An Affair to RememberAn Affair to RememberFile:Robert Mitchum Deborah Kerr Heaven Knows Mr. Allison 1957 (cropped).jpg|thumb|alt=Black and white photo of Robert Mitchum holding a gun standing next to Deborah Kerr in the movie Heaven Knows Mr. Allison in 1957|right|With Robert Mitchum in Heaven Knows, Mr. AllisonHeaven Knows, Mr. AllisonThereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. She was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. Neither film was much of a hit. However Kerr then played Anna Leonowens in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I (1956); with Yul Brynner in the lead, it was a huge hit. Marni Nixon dubbed Kerr's singing voice.She played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) opposite her long-time friend Robert Mitchum, directed by John Huston. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant.Kerr starred in three films with David Niven: Bonjour Tristesse (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, Separate Tables (1958), directed by Delbert Mann, which was particularly well received,WEB, Separate Tables, Variety, 1958-01-01,weblink 2024-02-16, and Eye of the Devil (1966), directed by J. Lee Thompson.She made two films at MGM: The Journey (1959) reunited her with Brynner; Count Your Blessings (1959), was a comedy. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck.WEB, Screen: Fitzgerald on the Way Down; 'Beloved Infidel' Opens at the Paramount Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr Head Cast, The New York Times, 1959-11-18,weblink 2024-02-16,

Later films

File:Deborah Kerr 4.jpg|thumb|Kerr in The Sundowners (1960)]]Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. She appeared in Gary Cooper's last film The Naked Edge (1961) and starred in The Innocents (1961) where she plays a governess tormented by apparitions.WEB, Pulver, Andrew, The Innocents: No 11 best horror film of all time, the Guardian, 2010-10-22,weblink 2024-02-16, Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964).WEB, The Night of the Iguana, Variety, 1964-01-01,weblink 2024-02-16, She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965).In 1965, the producers of Carry On Screaming! offered her a fee comparable to that paid to the rest of the cast combined, but she turned it down in favour of appearing in an aborted stage version of Flowers for Algernon. She replaced Kim Novak in Eye of the Devil (1966) with Niven, and was reteamed with Niven in the comedy Casino Royale (1967), achieving the distinction of being, at 45, the oldest "Bond girl" in any James Bond film, until Monica Bellucci, at the age of 50, in Spectre (2015). Casino Royale was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968).WEB, Ebert, Roger, Prudence and the Pill movie review (1968), RogerEbert.com, 1968-09-10,weblink 2024-02-16, She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. She returned to the cinema one more time in 1985's The Assam Garden.WEB, FILM: 'ASSAM GARDEN,' WITH DEBORAH KERR, The New York Times, 1986-07-30,weblink 2024-02-16,

Theatre

Concern about parts offered her made her abandon film at the end of the 1960s, with one exception in 1985, in favour of television and theatre work.Kerr returned to the London stage in many productions, including the old-fashioned, The Day After the Fair (Lyric, 1972), a Peter Ustinov comedy, Overheard (Haymarket, 1981) and a revival of Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green. After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House.In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape.In 1977, she came back to the West End, playing the title role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida.The theatre, despite her success in films, was always to remain Kerr's first love, even though going on stage filled her with trepidation:{{blockquote|I do it because it's exactly like dressing up for the grown ups. I don't mean to belittle acting but I'm like a child when I'm out there performing—shocking the grownups, enchanting them, making them laugh or cry. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't.NEWS,weblinkweblink 11 January 2022, subscription, live, Obituaries: Deborah Kerr, The Daily Telegraph, 19 October 2007, 20 June 2020, London, {{cbignore}}}}

Television

Kerr experienced a career resurgence on television in the early 1980s when she played the role of the nurse (played by Elsa Lanchester in the 1957 film of the same name) in Witness for the Prosecution, with Sir Ralph Richardson. She also did A Song at Twilight (1982).WEB, BFI Screenonline: Woman of Substance, A (1984),weblink 2023-09-26, www.screenonline.org.uk, She took on the role of the older Emma Harte, a tycoon, in the adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance (1985). For this performance, Kerr was nominated for an Emmy Award.WEB, Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance, Television Academy,weblink 2024-02-16, Kerr rejoined old screen partner Mitchum in Reunion at Fairborough (1985). Other TV roles included Ann and Debbie (1986) and Hold the Dream (1986), the latter a sequel to A Woman of Substance.WEB, Sequel to 'A Woman of Substance', The New York Times, 1986-10-27,weblink 2024-02-16,

Personal life

Kerr's first marriage was to Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley RAF on 29 November 1945. They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 18 December 1951, who married the actor John Shrapnel). The marriage was troubled, owing to Bartley's envy of his wife's fame and financial success, and because her career often took her away from home. They divorced in 1959.Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. In marrying Viertel, she became stepmother to Viertel's daughter, Christine Viertel. Although she long resided in Klosters, Switzerland, and Marbella, Spain, Kerr moved back to Britain to be closer to her own children as her health began to deteriorate. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella.NEWS,weblink Actress Deborah Kerr Dies at 86, 18 October 2007, CBS News, 20 June 2020, Stewart Granger said in his autobiography that in 1945 she had approached him romantically in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra.BOOK, Granger, Stewart, Sparks Fly Upward, Harper Collins, 1981, 88–91,weblink 978-0399126741, Although he was married to Elspeth March, he states that he and Kerr went on to have an affair.WEB,weblink Stewart Granger, 19 November 2007, Lenin Imports, When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is!"NEWS,weblink Obituary: Stewart Granger, Vallance, Tom, 17 August 1993, The Independent, London,

Death

(File:The grave of Deborah Kerr, Alfold churchyard in Surrey.png|thumb|The grave of Deborah Kerr, Alfold churchyard in Surrey)Kerr died aged 86 on 16 October 2007 at Botesdale, a village in the county of Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease.Clark, Mike (18 October 2007). "Actress Deborah Kerr dies at age 86". USA Today."From Here to Eternity actress Kerr dies." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830053325weblink |date=30 August 2008 }} CNN. 18 October 2007NEWS, Actress Deborah Kerr has died, Detroit Free Press,weblink 18 October 2007, 18 October 2007,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071020135708weblink">weblink 20 October 2007, dead, Associated Press, Within three weeks of her death, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November.NEWS, Peter Viertel, 86, Writer,weblink 7 November 2007, Variety (magazine), Variety, 20 June 2020, At the time of Viertel's death, director Michael Scheingraber was filming the documentary Peter Viertel: Between the Lines, which includes reminiscences concerning Kerr and the Academy Awards.WEB,weblink Between The Lines A film by Michael Scheingraber, eeweems.com, 10 May 2010,

Filmography

Film {| class"wikitable"

! Year !! Title !! Role !! Director !! NotesContraband (1940 film)>Contraband Cigarette Girl Michael Powell Scenes deleted 1941 ''Major Barbara (film)'' >Gabriel Pascal >| Love on the Dole (film)>Love on the Dole Sally Hardcastle John Baxter (director) >| Nomination — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress 1942 Penn of Pennsylvania Gulielma Maria Springett rowspan=2Lance Comfort >| Hatter's Castle (film)>Hatter's Castle Mary Brodie The Day Will Dawn >Harold French >|A Battle for a Bottle >| Animated short The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp >Powell and Pressburger >| Nomination — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressPerfect Strangers (1945 film)>Perfect Strangers Catherine Wilson Alexander Korda I See a Dark Stranger >Frank Launder >| New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress 1947 Black Narcissus Sister Clodagh Powell and Pressburger New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe Hucksters >Jack Conway (filmmaker)>Jack Conway If Winter Comes >Victor Saville >| Edward, My Son >George Cukor >| Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama 1950 Please Believe Me Alison Kirbe Norman Taurog King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)>King Solomon's Mines Elizabeth Curtis Compton Bennett Andrew Marton .Quo Vadis (1951 film)>Quo Vadis Lygia Mervyn LeRoy 1952 ''Thunder in the East (1951 film)'' >Charles Vidor >| The Prisoner of Zenda (1952 film)>The Prisoner of Zenda Princess Flavia Richard Thorpe 1953 ''Julius Caesar (1953 film)'' >Porcia (wife of Brutus)>Portia Joseph L. Mankiewicz Young Bess >Catherine Parr >George Sidney >|Dream Wife >Sidney Sheldon >| From Here to Eternity >Fred Zinnemann >| Nomination — Academy Award for Best ActressThe End of the Affair (1955 film)>The End of the Affair Sarah Miles Edward Dmytryk Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1956 The Proud and Profane Lee Ashley George Seaton The King and I (1956 film)>The King and I Anna Leonowens Walter Lang Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress Nomination — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Singing dubbed by Marni Nixon Tea and Sympathy (film)>Tea and Sympathy Laura Reynolds Vincent Minnelli Nomination — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1957 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Sister Angela John Huston New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama An Affair to Remember >Leo McCarey >| 1958 ''Bonjour Tristesse (film)'' >Otto Preminger >| Separate Tables (film)>Separate Tables Sibyl Railton-Bell Delbert Mann Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress Nomination — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama 1959 ''The Journey (1959 film)'' >Anatole Litvak >| Count Your Blessings (1959 film)>Count Your Blessings Grace Allingham Jean Negulesco Beloved Infidel >Sheilah Graham >Henry King (director)>Henry King 1960 ''The Sundowners (1960 film)'' >Fred Zinnemann >| New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleThe Grass Is Greener >Stanley Donen >| 1961 The Naked Edge Martha Radcliffe Michael Anderson (director) >| The Innocents (1961 film)>The Innocents Miss Giddens Jack Clayton 1964 ''The Chalk Garden (film)'' >Ronald Neame >| Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleThe Night of the Iguana (film)>The Night of the Iguana Hannah Jelkes John Huston Marriage on the Rocks >Jack Donohue (director)>John Donohue Eye of the Devil >J. Lee Thompson >|Casino Royale (1967 film)>Casino Royale Agent Mimi/Lady Fiona McTarry John HustonVal GuestHTTP://WWW.007MAGAZINE.CO.UK/CASINO_ROYALE-50.HTM>TITLE= CASINO ROYALE IS TOO MUCH FOR ONE JAMES BOND DATE=JULY 2017| Prudence and the Pill >Fielder Cook >| 1969 The Gypsy Moths Elizabeth Brandon John Frankenheimer The Arrangement (film)>The Arrangement Florence Anderson Elia Kazan The Assam Garden >|">

Television {| class"wikitable"

! Year !! Title !! Role !! NotesITV Play of the Week >| Episode: Three Roads to Rome BBC2 Playhouse >| Episode: A Song at TwilightWitness for the Prosecution (1982 film)>Witness for the Prosecution Nurse Plimsoll Television movie A Woman of Substance (TV series)>A Woman of Substance Emma Harte MiniseriesReunion at Fairborough >| Television movieAnnie and Debbie >| Television movieHold the Dream >| Miniseries">

Theatre {| class"wikitable"

! Year !! Title !! Role !! Venue Heartbreak House >| Cambridge Theatre, LondonTea and Sympathy (play)>Tea and Sympathy Laura Reynolds Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York CityThe Day After the Fair >Lyric Theatre, London>Lyric Theatre, LondonSeascape (play)>Seascape Nancy Shubert Theatre, New York CityLong Day's Journey into Night >| Ahmanson Theatre, Los AngelesCandida (play)>Candida Candida Albery Theatre, LondonThe Last of Mrs. Cheyney (play)>The Last of Mrs. Cheyney Mrs. Cheyney Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center, Washington DCOverheard >| Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonThe Corn is Green >| The Old Vic, London">

Radio {| class"wikitable"

! Year !! Program !! Episode/SourceA Date with Nurse Dugdale >| BBC Home Service, 19 May 1944. Guest star role in the penultimate episode.Lux Radio Theatre >King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)>King Solomon's MinesKIRBY> FIRST1=WALTER URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWSPAPERS.COM/CLIP/2613711/THE_DECATUR_DAILY_REVIEW/ DATE=30 NOVEMBER 1952 VIA=NEWSPAPERS.COM, 14 June 2015, {{Open access}}Hallmark Playhouse >The Pleasant LeaKIRBY TITLE=BETTER RADIO PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK NEWSPAPER=THE DECATUR DAILY REVIEW PAGE=42 ACCESS-DATE=23 MAY 2015, {{Open access}}Hollywood Sound Stage >Michael and MaryKIRBY TITLE=BETTER RADIO PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK NEWSPAPER=THE DECATUR DAILY REVIEW PAGE=44 ACCESS-DATE=23 MAY 2015, {{Open access}}Suspense (radio drama)>Suspense The Colonel's LadyKIRBY> FIRST1=WALTER URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWSPAPERS.COM/CLIP/2448157/THE_DECATUR_DAILY_REVIEW/ DATE=30 MARCH 1952 VIA=NEWSPAPERS.COM, 18 May 2015, {{Open access}}Hollywood Star Playhouse >| Companion Wanted

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards{| class="wikitable" width="75%" cellpadding="5"! width="10%"|Year! width="35%"|Category! width="35%"|Work! width="10%"|Result 22nd Academy Awards >Academy Award for Best Actress >Edward, My Son >| {{nominated}} 26th Academy Awards >From Here to Eternity >| {{nominated}} 29th Academy Awards >The King and I (1956 film)>The King and I {{nominated}} 30th Academy Awards >Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison >| {{nominated}} 31st Academy Awards >Separate Tables (film)>Separate Tables {{nominated}} 33rd Academy Awards >The Sundowners (1960 film)>The Sundowners {{nominated}} 66th Academy Awards >Academy Honorary Award>Honorary Oscar -- {{won}}She is tied with Thelma Ritter and Amy Adams as the actresses with the second most nominations without winning, surpassed only by Glenn Close, who has been nominated eight times without winning.British Academy Film Awards{| class="wikitable" width="75%" cellpadding="5"! width="10%"|Year! width="35%"|Category! width="35%"|Work! width="10%"|Result 9th British Academy Film Awards > BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role >The End of the Affair (1955 film)>The End of the Affair {{nominated}} 11th British Academy Film Awards >Tea and Sympathy (film)>Tea and Sympathy {{nominated}} 15th British Academy Film Awards >The Sundowners (1960 film)>The Sundowners {{nominated}} 18th British Academy Film Awards >The Chalk Garden (film)>The Chalk Garden {{nominated}} 44th British Academy Film Awards >| {{won}}Primetime Emmy Awards{| class="wikitable" width="75%" cellpadding="5"! width="10%"|Year! width="35%"|Category! width="35%"|Work! width="10%"|Result 37th Primetime Emmy Awards >Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie>Outstanding Supporting Actress - Limited Series ''A Woman of Substance (miniseries)'' >| {{nominated}}Golden Globe Awards{| class="wikitable" width="75%" cellpadding="5"! width="10%"|Year! width="35%"|Category! width="35%"|Work! width="10%"|Result 7th Golden Globe Awards >Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama>Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Edward, My Son {{nominated}} 14th Golden Globe Awards >Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy>Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ''The King and I (1956 film)'' >| {{won}} 15th Golden Globe Awards > Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama >Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison >| {{nominated}} 16th Golden Globe Awards >Separate Tables (film)>Separate Tables {{nominated}}| {{won}}NYFCC Awards{| class="wikitable" width="75%" cellpadding="5"! width="10%"|Year! width="35%"|Category! width="35%"|Work! width="10%"|Result 1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards > New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress >The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Love on the Dole >| {{nominated}} 1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards >Black Narcissus, I See a Dark Stranger >| {{won}} 1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards >The King and I (1956 film)>The King and I, ''Tea and Sympathy (film)'' >| {{nominated}} 1957 New York Film Critics Circle Awards >Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison >| {{won}} 1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards >The Sundowners (1960 film)>The Sundowners {{won}}

Honours

File:Deborah Kerr Star HWF.JPG|thumb|right|Kerr's star on the Hollywood Walk of FameHollywood Walk of FameKerr was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1998, but was unable to accept the honour in person because of ill health.NEWS, Brian, Baxter, Deborah Kerr,weblink obituary, The Guardian, 18 October 2007, 20 June 2020, London, She was also honoured in Hollywood, where she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1709 Vine Street for her contributions to the motion picture industry.Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. In 1994, Glenn Close presented Kerr with the Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance".NEWS,weblink Biggest Snubs in Academy Awards History, White, Jim, 2 February 2018, Observer Media, Observer, New York, 30 March 2020, Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress â€“ Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" for The King and I in 1957 and a Henrietta Award for "World Film Favorite â€“ Female". She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960).{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}Although she never won a BAFTA or Cannes Film Festival award in a competitive category, both organisations gave Kerr honorary awards: a Cannes Film Festival Tribute in 1984WEB,weblink Pierre Tchernia présentateur du palmares du festival de Cannes, 20 June 2020, 23 May 1984, Pierre Tchernia, presenter of the Cannes Festival palmares, Festival International de Cannes, fr, and a BAFTA Special Award in 1991.In September and October 2010, Josephine Botting of the British Film Institute curated the "Deborah Kerr Season", which included around twenty of her feature films and an exhibition of posters, memorabilia and personal items loaned by her family.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}In September 2021, Kerr's grandsons, Joe and Lex Shrapnel, unveiled a memorial plaque at the former family home in Weston-super-Mare.WEB, Pickstock, Heather, Hollywood actress Deborah Kerr recognised in home town of Weston-super-Mare,weblink Somerset Live, 3 September 2021, 5 September 2021, On 30 September 2021, on what would have been Kerr's one hundredth birthday, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Philip Braat, unveiled a memorial plaque in Ruskin Terrace, on the site of the nursing home where Kerr was born.NEWS, Anderson, Deborah, Glasgow roots of Hollywood star celebrated as plaque is unveiled,weblink 1 October 2021, The Herald, 1 October 2021, 3,

See also

• Patricia Bartley

References

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Bibliography

• Braun, Eric. Deborah Kerr. St. Martin's Press, 1978. {{ISBN|0-312-18895-1}}.
• Capua, Michelangelo. Deborah Kerr. A Biography. McFarland, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-5882-0}}.
• Street, Sarah. Deborah Kerr. British Film Institute, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1844576753}}.
• Powell, Michael. A Life in Movies. Heinemann, 1986. {{ISBN|0-434-59945-X}}.
• Andrew, Penelope. "Deborah Kerr: An Actress in Search of an Author". Bright Lights Film Journal, May 2011, Issue 72. Deborah Kerr: An Actress in Search of an Author, (c) Penelope Andrew, 2011.

External links

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• Deborah Kerr "Rhymes with Star" tribute site
• Deborah Kerr {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707035710weblink |date=7 July 2011 }} at Helensburgh Heroes.
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080926023358weblink">The Enigma of Deborah Kerr, ephemera, media files and essay at cinemagraphe.com.
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080611114714weblink">"From Kerr To Eternity", 55th Sydney Film Festival Deborah Kerr retrospective (2008).
• Deborah Kerr Rhymes With Star, and What a Star She Was: She Deserves to be Remembered, Too, Huffington Post, 7 April 2008.
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080417100010weblink">Deborah Kerr tribute by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, whose script for his film Broken Embraces was influenced by his reflections on her at the time of her death.
• Extensive collection of press articles from the 1940s to 2000s, photo galleries and other information at deborahkerr.es (April 2009).
• Photographs and literature at virtual-history.com.

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