Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. Roland was expressing his adoration and I suddenly felt a tremendous stinging sensation, like pins and needles, on my behind! Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? She won her Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1948 for Edward, My Son. 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. Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. She acted in a film adaption of Bernard Shaws work titled Major Barbara and then in the lead role in Love on the Dole in 1940. Deborah Kerr, 86, the cultivated Scottish rose beloved in such 1950s blockbusters as. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. [36], 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.[37]. Accidentally she dropped the coin, which slid down between the seats of her carriage. English He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. ", Audrey Hepburn - Film Legend, Fashion Icon, Humanitarian Great, Vivien Leigh - "Too British" to play Scarlett O'Hara. Soon, she switched careers and entered the world of acting. 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. Pressure of competition from younger, upcoming actresses made her agree to appear nude in John Frankenheimer's The Gypsy Moths (1969), the only nude scene in her career. He bought a small timber haulage firm in Alford, a rural parish on the borders of Surrey and Sussex, near Cranleigh. Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. Born on 16 October 2007 in United Kingdom, Deborah Kerr started her career as film and television actress (1921-2007) . 'Bing's Lucky Number: Pa Crosby Dons 4th B.O. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. Deborah Kerr has died at the age of 86 after a seven-year battle with Parkinson's disease. The Scottish-born actress will forever be associated with her roles in. Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. 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. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. American British Deborah Kerr/Nationality. She told a story about it in a letter sent in 1990 from her home in Marbella, Spain. Age (2022) Update Soon. An Affair to Remember in 1957 opposite Cary Grant made her immensely popular. She participated in some films considered great cinema classics, among . Deborah Kerr holds a candle in a scene from the film 'Black Narcissus', 1947. Many Hollywood stars of the wartime generation ended their careers in cameo roles or cult movies, even schlock horror or, worst of all, television soaps. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/deborah-kerr-7573.php, British Female Film & Theater Personalities, 20th Century Film & Theater Personalities, 20th Century British Film & Theater Personalities. From an early age, she staged dramatic presentations for her family. She is most remembered for From Here to . She was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. She acted in the Oxford Repertory Company from 1939 to 1940. She also made her Broadway debut in 1953 in a lead role in Tea and Sympathy. 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. She acted in television movies A Song at Twilight in 1973. During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I (1956) and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the . [8] She made Young Bess (1953) with Granger and Jean Simmons, then appeared alongside Cary Grant in Dream Wife (1953), a flop comedy. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. She was 86 and had suffered from Parkinson's disease. Kerr, 63, is the former superintendent of the Brown Deer school district in suburban Milwaukee. After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. 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. In a trembling voice at what would be her last public appearance, she said to the assembled: "Thank you for giving me a happy life.". Resend Activation Email. She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. 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). 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. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. St James Terrace, in W2, has since been renamed Ruskin Terrace. Returned to the stage in the 1970's in plays including "The Day After The Fair" and "Candida." cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Deborah Kerr was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland, on September 30, 1921. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a scene from 'From Here to Eternity', Halona Cove, Oahu, Hawaii, 1953. It is considered among the most romantic films of all time according to the American Film Institute. [26] 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.[27]. She has appeared in many films from her first appearance in Major Barbara (1941). Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. [8] After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. Her parents first met in Lydney early in 1914 and in due course became engaged, but were parted by the First World War. [citation needed]. On one occasion she gave my mother a 10 tip, and that was a lot of money in those days.. Concern about the parts being offered to her, as well as the increasing amount of nudity included in films, led her to abandon the medium at the end of the 1960s, with one exception in 1985, in favour of television and theatre work. [8], 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. Kerr departed from typecasting with a performance that brought out her sensuality, as "Karen Holmes", the embittered military wife in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Her death, in Suffolk, England, was announced on Thursday by her. R88 That short hair 'gamine' look became popular in the 50s. She made two films at MGM: The Journey (1959) reunited her with Brynner; Count Your Blessings (1959), was a comedy. She performed in France, Belgium and Holland with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association, or Every Night Something Awful) - The British Army entertainment service. Director Fred Zinnemann at Columbia, in a risk-taking gesture, cast Kerr (on loan from MGM) against type in the role of a lusty, adulterous army wife in From Here to Eternity (1953), hoping that Kerrs ladylike poise would provide an interesting contrast to her characters seamy past. 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. [8], 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).[14]. For many years she had battled Parkinson's disease with the dignified grace and quiet wit she brought to her many roles. Try again later. For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with Burt. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't.[8]. She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award, Honorary Oscar in 1994. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. "Deborah Kerr: An Actress in Search of an Author". Kerr departed from typecasting with a performance that brought out her sensuality, as "Karen Holmes", the embittered military wife in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. This film was a production of the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Kerr's roles as forceful, sometimes frustrated women expanded the limits of. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. Omissions? To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star! Honorary Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1994), Golden Globe Award (1959): World Film Favorites, Golden Globe Award (1957): Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Deborah-Kerr, Deborah Kerr - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). There is no independent corroboration of either actor's claims. Deborah Kerr was one of the most famous English actresses of her time. [1][13] She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. [10], Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. Her first steps on the stage were as a ballet dancer, training with. She returned to the cinema one more time in 1985's The Assam Garden. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. In terms of lead actress nominations without a victory, Kerr now maintains the record. Marni Nixon sang for Deborah Kerr in "The King and I," Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady," and Natalie Wood in "West Side Story." Drew Seeley did the singing for Zac Efron's character in the first "High School Musical" movie. [2], Deborah Jane Trimmer[1] was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow,[3] the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (ne Smale) and Capt. She made her TV screen debut for CBS with Witness for the Prosecution in 1982. 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. Deborah Kerr. She also did A Song at Twilight (1982). Her agent Anne Hutton said she died on Tuesday in Suffolk, eastern England. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. 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. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? Fred Zinnemann's Academy Award-winning . Year should not be greater than current year. She appeared in Separate Tables in 1958. In 1955 she got a nomination for the BAFTA Award for The End of the Affair. In marrying Viertel, she became stepmother to Viertel's daughter, Christine Viertel. She started taking part in productions at the Open Air Theater in Regent Park, London and changed her name to Deborah Kerr. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. British Actress Deborah Kerr was born Deborah Jane Trimmer on 30th September, 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland and passed away on 16th Oct 2007 Suffolk, England, UK aged 86. Nationality. Kerr'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. Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. Very romantic! [10], 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. She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). Deborah Jane Trimmer, mer knd som Deborah Kerr, fdd 30 september 1921 i Glasgow i Skottland, [1] [2] dd 16 oktober 2007 i Botesdale i Suffolk, var en brittisk skdespelare.Bland Kerrs filmer mrks Det brjade i Berlin (1943), Svart narcissus (1947), Kung Salomos skatt (1950), Quo Vadis (1951), Hrifrn till evigheten (1953), Kungen och jag (1956), Allt om krlek (1957), Vem vet, Mr . 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. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. 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. Her father, Arthur, was a naval architect. [33] 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. Deborah Kerr, original name Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, (born September 30, 1921, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotlanddied October 16, 2007, Suffolk, England), British film and stage actress known for the poise and serenity she exhibited in portraying complex characters. 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. She took on the role of the older Emma Harte, a tycoon, in the adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance (1984). Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. Identikit and personal data Name Deborah Last name Kerr Born September 30, 1921 in Glasgow Died October 16, 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk [11], Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). She was 86. 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.[8]. The actress, whose screen kiss with Burt Lancaster is regularly voted the greatest of all time, was. In An Affair to Remember, an improbably effective romance that is the basis for Sleepless in Seattle, she convinced the world that the Empire State Building was the closest place New York had to heaven. The marriage was troubled, owing to Bartley's jealousy of his wife's fame and financial success, and because her career often took her away from home. Some of Kerr's leading men have stated in their autobiographies that they had an affair or romantic fling with her. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't. 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 acted in the film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison opposite Robert Mitchum in 1957. According to agent Anne Hutton, Kerr died on . Thanks for your help! Indeed, Leo McCarey 's CinemaScope and DeLuxe remake of his own 1939 best picture nominee was voted the fifth most romantic screen love story by the American Film Institute. Scottish-born actress Deborah Kerr, who starred in Hollywood films including An Affair to Remember and The King And I, has died.. She was aged 86. For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with . 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. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. In 1975 she appeared on the Broadway stage in Edward Albees Seascape. Richard Stirling pieces together the glamourous life of screen actress Deborah Kerr "Deborah Kerr - it rhymes with star!" screamed MGM of its latest acquisition in 1946. Deborah Kerr (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Deborah, who died at home in Suffolk of Parkinson's disease, was born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, an engineer's daughter. In 1943, aged 21, Kerr made her West End dbut as Ellie Dunn in a revival of Heartbreak House at the Cambridge Theatre, stealing attention from stalwarts such as Edith Evans and Isabel Jeans. Failed to report flower. According to her biographer, Eric Braun, Deborahs first and only memory of her time in the burgh is of being with her grandmother in a horse-drawn cab at the age of two or three, clutching a bright, shiny penny she had been given. Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). 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. Countless newspaper, magazine and website articles say that the Scottish girl who became the archetypal movie perfect English rose was born in the burgh. As an unhappily married woman having a torrid affair with an army officer shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Deborah Kerr is equally powerful in one of her best-remembered movies, From Here to Eternity (1953), stealing the romantic melodrama from her male co-stars. She had two daughters from this marriage - Melanie and Francesca. Filmed in CinemaScope, it was distributed by 20th Century Fox. 0. Her final feature film was "The Assam Garden," also in 1985. In marrying Viertel, she acquired a stepdaughter, Christine Viertel. 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. See a Kerr filmography and more photos via http://go.philly.com/kerr EndText, California residents do not sell my data request. Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunt's drama school in Bristol, England. She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950). I don't mean to belittle acting but I'm like a child when I'm out there performingshocking the grownups, enchanting them, making them laugh or cry. Deborah Kerr came into this world on September 30, 1921, in Glasgow Scotland as Deborah Jane Trimmer. . You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born on Sept. 30, 1921, in Helensburgh, Scotland. In The King and I she whistled a happy tune, and the world whistled along. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. She developed her acting skills enough to be hired as a leading lady and portrayed the major role of Sister Clodagh in Black Narcissus (1947), for which she won her first New York Film Critics Circle Award (her subsequent awards were for Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison [1957] and The Sundowners [1960]). Kerr became known playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Learn more about merges. Her flutelike voice was also unique. In 1944 she was in the Clyde area on location, filming 'Perfect Strangers' with actor Roland Culver. Try again later. Whether it was as the nun struggling to repress her desire in Black Narcissus (1947), the married woman who relished an adulterous roll in the surf with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953), the teacher's wife who beds a student who may be homosexual in Tea and Sympathy (1956), or the kept woman drawn to kept man Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember (1957), Miss Kerr projected propriety and sexuality. Best Known For. Failed to remove flower. Search above to list available cemeteries. She starred in The Day after The Fair on the London stage in 1972 and toured the United States with it in 1973. She also performed with the Oxford Repertory Company. [16] This was immediately followed by her appearance in the religious epic Quo Vadis (1951), shot at Cinecitt in Rome, in which she played the indomitable Lygia, a first-century Christian. Though she never won, in 1994 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement in films. A system error has occurred. Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster were in From Here to Eternity (1953) together.. About. She was the superintendent for Brown . She won a nomination for the BAFTA Award for the film Tea and Sympathy in 1956. Marni Nixon - the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr and others was unsung herself . Please reset your password. Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Legitimate theater) Vocation . Deborah Kerr holds a candle in a scene from the film 'Black Narcissus', 1947. Deborah Kerr won the New York Film Critics Award in 1947 for Black Narcissus and was voted one of the top earning English stars by Motion Picture Herald poll. She won a BAFTA Fellowship Award in 1991. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Deborah Kerr Photo: 20th Century Fox Her zodiac sign is Libra. She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn (1942). cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. [12] Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. She contended six times in Best Actress to little avail: "Edward, My Son" (1949), "From Here to Eternity . Once he was sufficiently confident, the couple travelled north to Helensburgh to join his parents. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Deborah Kerr I found on Findagrave.com. Her first appearance on the West End stage was as Ellie Dunn in "Heartbreak House" at the Cambridge Theatre in 1943. 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. Deborah Kerr is British by birth. Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" for The King and I in 1957 and a Henrietta Award for "World Film Favorite Female". Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, better known as Deborah Kerr (born 30 September 1921 in Glasgow - dead 16 October 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk), was a British film, stage and TV actress from Scotland. One day she came home from work and was very excited. h aged 4 and of her parents are from the Smale family collection, the main picture is an agency shot of Deborah arriving at an awards dinner in London in the early 1970s, and the picture of Nithsdale is by Donald Fullarton. Peter Viertelm. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. 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 1984[35] and a BAFTA Special Award in 1991.[8]. 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