Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. Deborah Kerr is rumored to have hooked up with Burt Lancaster in Mar 1953.. On Screen Matchups. State superintendent candidate Jill Underly raised 16 times more than opponent Deborah Kerr in the latest period ahead of the April 6 election, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday. The film was a big hit in Britain. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. In 1964 she acted in Tennessee Williams The Night of The Iguana and also starred in The Chalk Garden. 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. The following year they moved south to Alford. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. Her first steps on the stage were as a ballet dancer, training with. 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. The BritishHeritage.org seeks to recognize individuals who have attained Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. 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. Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. . Today Deborah Kerr would be 100 years old. Her other films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947), From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Grass is Greener (1960), and The Night of the Iguana (1964). 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". 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 made her TV screen debut for CBS with Witness for the Prosecution in 1982. Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. Deborah displayed a penchant for dramatics at a very early age when she would stage presentations for her family. [25], Within three weeks of her death, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Deborah Kerr was a Scottish actress who is best known for her role in the King and I.. Childhood and Early Life. Her ability to project the contradictory aspects of character helped her to create a new screen archetype, the very proper adulteress. During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers:[12] "I realised that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for". She said that Deborah Kerr was staying with Mrs Kirkwood Brown and was a relative of hers. Alternate titles: Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer. Peter Viertelm. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Kerr became known playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). 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). . Who was Deborah Kerr's husband? She also performed with the Oxford Repertory Company. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). Unfortunately, the Academy didn't like Kerr as much as the New York critics. Year should not be greater than current year. This is a carousel with slides. Her final screen appearance was in the TV miniseries Hold the Dream in 1986. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. There was a problem getting your location. This biography provides detailed information on her childhood, life, acting career, achievements and timeline. She was 86. In marrying Viertel, she became stepmother to Viertel's daughter, Christine Viertel. 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. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Film, TV, Theatre - Actors and Originators, Sir John Gielgud - "the best Hamlet of our time", Jason Statham - Fast and Furious For Sure, Peter Ustinov - "He could make anyone laugh. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a scene from 'From Here to Eternity', Halona Cove, Oahu, Hawaii, 1953. Also Known As: Deborah Trimmer, Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Deborah Kerr Viertel, Spouse/Ex-: Anthony Bartley (married 1945), divorced 1959), Peter Viertel (married 19602007; her death), children: Christine Viertel (stepdaughter), Francesca Ann Bartley (born 1951), Melanie Jane Bartley (born 1947), See the events in life of Deborah Kerr in Chronological Order, (British Actress Who was Known for Her Impeccable Grace and Beauty), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoeQJ_fzQ. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. However in December 2011 a former burgh man, Andrew Rook (69), who lives in Bedfordshire, contacted the Trust to say that she had in fact come back twice. Underly raised more than $1.14 million and spent $818,063 between Feb. 2 and March 22, according to her campaign report. A victim of Parkinsons disease, Deborah Kerr CBE died peacefully at Botesdale, Suffolk, on Tuesday October 16 2007, a couple of weeks after her 86th birthday. 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. 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. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. R41 I thought 'Vacation from Marriage' was embarrassing. [12], 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. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. She won a nomination for the BAFTA Award for the film Tea and Sympathy in 1956. [15] She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. She eventually caught the eye of MGM's Louis B. Mayer and in late 1946 joined the studio. In 1978 she toured the US with the play The Last of Mrs. Cheney. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22285687/deborah-kerr. Kerr became known in Britain playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Casino Royal was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968). Very romantic! 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. In 1975 she appeared on the Broadway stage in Edward Albees Seascape. 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. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. [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. 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". After her Broadway dbut in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. Kerr's father had served in the British Army during the First World War and lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. She made two films at MGM: The Journey (1959) reunited her with Brynner; Count Your Blessings (1959), was a comedy. Appeared in her first film, the 1941. 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 . cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. She was decorative and unmemorable in prestige pictures such as King Solomon's Mines (1950) and Quo Vadis (1951). Deborah Kerr, 86, the cultivated Scottish rose beloved in such 1950s blockbusters as From Here to Eternity, The King and I, and An Affair to Remember, died Tuesday in Suffolk, England. This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 05:21. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday. Deborah was barely three. and whose actions, in addition to their achievements, embody the Resend Activation Email. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. She acted in the film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison opposite Robert Mitchum in 1957. 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. In 1947 she moved to Hollywood where she acted in The Hucksters in 1947, King Solomons Mines in 1950 and Quo Vadis in 1951. Stewart Granger claimed 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. When her granny explained that there was no way of recovering the lost treasure, Deborah was inconsolable. He said: My mother worked as a housekeeper for Mrs Jane Kirkwood Brown, who lived in a large mansion in Charlotte Street and who had returned with her husband from Ceylon where he worked in the tea industry. "Finally the scene was over and I leapt to my feet and screamed I found I had been sitting on an ants nest! Try again later. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. Deborah Kerr was born Deborah Jane Kerr Trimmer on September 30, 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland to Arthur Charles ("Jack") Trimmer, a civil engineer and his wife Colleen. [12], 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. Kerr and Bartley divorced in 1959. 1:07. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). , died Tuesday in Suffolk, England. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. In the 1980's she was well received on the television screen in, among other films, "A Woman Of Substance" (1983) and "Reunion at Fairborough" (1985) which reunited her with longtime friend and costar of several films, Robert Mitchum. She returned to the cinema one more time in 1985's The Assam Garden. In 1968 she co-starred with David Niven in the film Prudence and the Pill and also acted in the films The Arrangement and The Gypsy Moths. In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. State superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr solicited clients and organized branding for her private consulting business through her public school district email address, including several times during work hours, prior to her retirement as Brown Deer School District superintendent last year. The film is as yet (2010) unreleased. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. She had a younger brother, Edmund (Teddy). In 1998 she was awarded the CBE, but speaking from her home in Switzerland said that she felt too frail to travel to London to receive it personally. This film was a production of the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. You can always change this later in your Account settings. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. There is a problem with your email/password. 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. [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. 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]). She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. We have set your language to She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her dbut in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. Failed to remove flower. A copy of her birth certificate confirmed that her birthplace was Glasgow. GREAT NEWS! Deborah Kerr is one of the two actresses in history who was nominated six time for Oscar Award but could never win the award. 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. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. The plan was that Jack, Col and little Deborah should follow after Jack had worked out his contract with Sir William Arrol, and in 1923 they moved to Ardencaple Quadrant, where homes had been built for those wounded in the war. 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. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. Kerr's first marriage was to Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley RAF on 29 November 1945. In marrying Viertel, she became stepmother to Viertel's daughter, Christine Viertel. Failed to delete memorial. qualities of achievement and commitment, the BritishHeritage.org serves to recognize the British Heritage contribution to the betterment of mankind. 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. She married a war hero Anthony Bartley in 1945 but divorced him in 1959. But the flame-haired English rose (actually born in Helensburgh, in 1921) was already a star in Britain, as well as an actress of proven substance. [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]. 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). In 1945 she toured Europe with the play Gaslight to entertain the British Troops. She started taking part in productions at the Open Air Theater in Regent Park, London and changed her name to Deborah Kerr. She made music out of ordinary dialogue. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. After divorcing Anthony she married a writer, Peter Viertel. The race was officially nonpartisan, but Democrats and their money lined up solidly behind Underly. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". Horoscope and astrology data of Deborah Kerr born on 30 September 1921 Helensburgh, Scotland, with biography. Her flutelike voice was also unique. Actress. Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in From Here to Eternity and danced with the Siamese monarch in The King and I has . Deborah Kerr was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland, on September 30, 1921. Said critic James Agate of 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 educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. In 45 films, in as many years, she seldom, if . She had a strong support role in Major Barbara (1941) directed by Gabriel Pascal. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. Neither film was much of a hit. She performed in France, Belgium and Holland with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association, or Every Night Something Awful) - The British Army entertainment service. There was an error deleting this problem. Black Narcissus became an international hit and led to an MGM contract and the opportunity to play opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters later that year. She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950). Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. She won a scholarship to Sadlers Wells ballet school and at age 17 made her professional dancing debut in London in the corps de ballet of Prometheus. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. 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. R88 That short hair 'gamine' look became popular in the 50s. When he was well enough to be repatriated he had to endure further surgery on his upper leg to halt gangrene infection, but eventually he left Roehampton Military Hospital in south-west London, was discharged from the Army, and travelled to the Smale home at Lydney. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died in Suffolk, eastern England, according to her agent, Anne Hutton. 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. Kerr's first marriage was to Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley on 29 November 1945. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. Biography: Kerr received a bachelor's degree from Valparaiso University, a master's degree in education from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, and a doctorate in educational leadership from National-Louis University. [11], Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). [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. 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. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with . She won the Golden Globe Award and her third Academy Award nomination for the film The King and I in 1956. She played ladies who didn't mind if their tramp showed. His father Arthur worked with Sir William Arrols bridge building firm, and Jack took up a post with them as well. Yet despite family in Sweden and two decades in Los Angeles, she settled in New York City, becoming as famous a New Yorker as she was a movie star. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. House where The King and I star Deborah Kerr first learned to dance goes on sale for 1.85million. But despite her illustrious future, her childhood was not a walk in the park. The Famous People. However the operation was successful, and the long hard road to recovery began. Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. Deborah Jane Trimmer. Andrew's family lived in the town in 1952-3 and he attended Hermitage School in East Argyle Street while his younger brother was at Clyde Street Primary School. One day she came home from work and was very excited. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. But she never lost her love, or connection, with Scotland.. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. In 1964 she received a fourth BAFTA Award nomination for the film Chalk Garden. But Deborah . Today, Deborah Kerr lives in . Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. 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). 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