Other TV roles included Ann and Debbie (1986) and Hold the Dream (1986), the latter a sequel to A Woman of Substance. The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing". You have chosen this person to be their own family member. She made Young Bess (1953) with Granger and Jean Simmons, then appeared alongside Cary Grant in Dream Wife (1953), a flop comedy. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. Family members linked to this person will appear here. 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". 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. After 1947 Kerr established herself in Hollywood, typecast by MGMin what Kerr referred to as tiara rolesas a well-bred young British matron. After her Broadway dbut in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died in Suffolk, eastern England, according to her agent, Anne Hutton. Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (ne Smale) and Capt. Her father, Arthur, was a naval architect. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Also Known As Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer Birth Place Helensburgh, Scotland Born September 30, 1921 Died October 16, 2007 Cause of Death Parkinson's Disease Biography Read More Known as "The English Rose," lovely, red-haired Deborah Kerr - "It Rhymes with Star!" For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. The theatre, despite her success in films, was always to remain Kerr's first love, even though going on stage filled her with trepidation: I do it because it's exactly like dressing up for the grown ups. Kerr's first marriage was to Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley RAF on 29 November 1945. 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 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 CBE (born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer; 30 September 1921 - 16 October 2007) was a Scottish-born film, theater and television actress. Omissions? Returned to the stage in the 1970's in plays including "The Day After The Fair" and "Candida." 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. In between Paramount borrowed her to appear in Thunder in the East (1951) with Alan Ladd. [8] After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. 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. Search above to list available cemeteries. Casino Royale was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968). Deborah was barely three. Horoscope and astrology data of Deborah Kerr born on 30 September 1921 Helensburgh, Scotland, with biography. The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.[17]. 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 . 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. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. Kerr starred in two films with David Niven: Bonjour Tristesse (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, and Separate Tables (1958), directed by Delbert Mann; the latter movie was particularly well received. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. She made music out of ordinary dialogue. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Within three weeks after her death, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November. Please try again later. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy. She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960). She has appeared in many films from her first appearance in Major Barbara (1941). I thought you might like to see a memorial for Deborah Kerr I found on Findagrave.com. Some of Kerr's leading men have stated in their autobiographies that they had an affair or romantic fling with her. Discovering an interest in acting, Kerr began playing bit parts in various Shakespeare productions. She was decorative and unmemorable in prestige pictures such as King Solomon's Mines (1950) and Quo Vadis (1951). Her first steps on the stage were as a ballet dancer, training with. Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunt's drama school in Bristol, England. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Durdham Lodge was owned by Kerr's aunt Phyllis Smale, who ran it as a dance academy in the 1930s . Some of Kerr's leading men have stated in their autobiographies that they had an affair or romantic fling with her. Deborah Kerr holds a candle in a scene from the film 'Black Narcissus', 1947. In 1953, Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy. 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. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. 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. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Her first appearance on the West End stage was as Ellie Dunn in "Heartbreak House" at the Cambridge Theatre in 1943. 'Bing's Lucky Number: Pa Crosby Dons 4th B.O. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Kerr received six Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her work in "Edward, My Son" (1949), "From Here To Eternity" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" (1957), "Separate Tables" (1958) and "The Sundowners" (1960). Casino Royal was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968). 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). Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. She appeared in the films Julius Caesar and From Here to Eternity in 1953. Kerr performed the same role in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation released in 1956; her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) also appeared. Deborah Kerr, better known by her family name Deborah Jane Trimmer, is a popular French film and television actress (1921-2007). In 1953, Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar. She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) with Granger and Mason. [22][23][24] She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. Kerr starred in two films with David Niven: Bonjour Tristesse (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, and Separate Tables (1958), directed by Delbert Mann; the latter movie was particularly well received. They divorced in 1959. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Deborah was barely three. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. She acted opposite Robert Mitchum in the film The Sundowners in 1960. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. Please reset your password. She won a nomination for the BAFTA Award for the film Tea and Sympathy in 1956. She told a story about it in a letter sent in 1990 from her home in Marbella, Spain. Resend Activation Email. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. She acted on London stage in The Corn Is Green in 1985. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. British director Michael Powell gave her a role in film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in 1943 in which she appeared thrice. "She has the rare gift", wrote critic Beverley Baxter, "of thinking her lines, not merely remembering them. 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. The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which Burt Lancaster and she romped illicitly and passionately amidst crashing waves on a Hawaiian beach. Marni Nixon - the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr and others was unsung herself . She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with . There is a problem with your email/password. The film was a big hit in Britain. "Deborah Kerr: An Actress in Search of an Author". For many years she had battled Parkinson's disease with the dignified grace and quiet wit she brought to her many roles. She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award, Honorary Oscar in 1994. In 1964 she acted in Tennessee Williams The Night of The Iguana and also starred in The Chalk Garden. She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. She started taking part in productions at the Open Air Theater in Regent Park, London and changed her name to Deborah Kerr. Deborah Jane Trimmer. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. Showing her versatility and range, she played three roles in Michael Powell's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), which, along with her extraordinary performance as the nun in Powell's Black Narcissus, got Hollywood's attention. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her dbut in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. HELENSBURGH people have long embraced Deborah Kerr as their very own film star, but the time she spent in the town was very short. 1 September 2021 - Weston Town Council with Weston-super-Mare Civic Society put up a blue plaque dedicated to actress Deborah Kerr CBE at 47 Elmsleigh Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK. Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Deborah Kerr, one of the great ladies of mid-20th century cinema, who epitomized grace and intelligence on screen, has died. The marriage was troubled, owing to Bartley's envy of his wife's fame and financial success,[10] and because her career often took her away from home. After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Deborah displayed a penchant for dramatics at a very early age when she would stage presentations for her family. Though she never won, in 1994 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement in films. . Deborah Jane Trimmer, better known by her stage name Deborah Kerr (30 September 1921-16 October 2007), was a British actress who appeared in movies, plays, and television. 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 re-enacted the same role on the stage in 1956 and acted in the film version of Rodgers and Hammersteins film version of The King and I in the same year. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. She died onTuesday. She made two films at MGM: The Journey (1959) reunited her with Brynner; Count Your Blessings (1959), was a comedy. But Deborah . Soon, she switched careers and entered the world of acting. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing". R88 That short hair 'gamine' look became popular in the 50s. 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. 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. 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). In 1959, Miss Kerr and Bartley, who had two daughters, divorced. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in a scene from 'From Here to Eternity', Halona Cove, Oahu, Hawaii, 1953. Corrections? 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. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. and whose actions, in addition to their achievements, embody the
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. She played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) opposite her long-time friend Robert Mitchum, directed by John Huston. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't.[8]. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star! Kerr, 63, is the former superintendent of the Brown Deer school district in suburban Milwaukee. In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape. No other actress - not Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day nor Elizabeth Taylor - enjoyed more popular success in the second half of the 1950s than Miss Kerr. 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). The scene from that film of Kerr and her costar Burt Lancaster making love on the beach as waves crash against them has become a classic Hollywood image and remains one of the steamiest in film history. Deborah Kerr was one of the most famous English actresses of her time. Her estimated net worth was $10 million. She won the fifth Academy Award nomination and the third Golden Globe Award nomination in 1958 for the film Separate Tables. An Affair to Remember (1957) Coming between Dream Wife (1953) and The Grass Is Greener (1960), this is the pick of Kerr's collaborations with Cary Grant. When Miss Kerr tore into director John Huston after a sequence shot in the water, the actor was so shocked that he nearly drowned laughing. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Actress. From an early age, she staged dramatic presentations for her family. 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. 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]. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Nationality. [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. "Finally the scene was over and I leapt to my feet and screamed I found I had been sitting on an ants nest! Won the New York Film Critics' Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a nun in "Black Narcissus" (1947). Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. Failed to remove flower. Her parents, Captain Arthur Charles Trimmer and Kathleen Rose Trimmer, nee Smale, who were married at the brides home town of Lydney, Gloucestershire, on August 21 1919, were living in Helensburgh at the time. Kerr announced her retirement in 1969, though she continued to make occasional appearances onstage and in feature and TV movies. Browse 472 deborah kerr actress stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Deborah Kerr is British by birth. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. 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. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960). She was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. 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". She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. Helensburgh man David Bruce, chairman of the Glasgow Film Theatre and a former director of the Scottish Film Council, who was one of the awards organisers, said: I asked her if she would like me to arrange a trip to Helensburgh, and she said yes, but time did not permit.. 1945-1959 . 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. To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star!" Her father, known to all as Jack, and mother, known as Col or Colleen, moved to Helensburgh because of Jacks peacetime work as a civil engineer, and lived for three years with Jacks parents, Arthur Kerr Trimmer and his wife Mary Jane, at Nithsdale in West King Street. This browser does not support getting your location. Kerr rejoined old screen partner Mitchum in Reunion at Fairborough (1985). The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which Burt Lancaster and she romped illicitly and passionately amidst crashing waves on a Hawaiian beach. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. 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. 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