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. The film is as yet (2010) unreleased. She married Peter Viertel, a novelist and screenwriter, in 1960 and they lived in Klosters, Switzerland for many years. 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. [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]. It is considered among the most romantic films of all time according to the American Film Institute. 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. Deborah displayed a penchant for dramatics at a very early age when she would stage presentations for her family. Her father, Arthur, was a naval architect. 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. They divorced in 1959. [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. She made Young Bess (1953) with Granger and Jean Simmons, then appeared alongside Cary Grant in Dream Wife (1953), a flop comedy. A machine gun expert, he returned to action in France, but was shot through the right kneecap at the Battle of the Somme. 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. Though a much beloved stage and film actress for many years, younger generations will recognize her from "An Affair To Remember" (1957) with Cary Grant, which has been referenced to in several modern films such as "Sleepless In Seattle" (1993). Deborah Kerr died on 16 October 2007 in Botesdale, a village in Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease. She made A Woman of Substance in 1984 and Reunion at Fairborough in 1985. excellence and international renown in their chosen professional fields, Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. 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. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. Deborah Jane Trimmer[1] CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/kr/), was a British actress. The film was a big hit in Britain. The actress, whose screen kiss with Burt Lancaster is regularly voted the greatest of all time, was. 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. Try again later. ", Audrey Hepburn - Film Legend, Fashion Icon, Humanitarian Great, Vivien Leigh - "Too British" to play Scarlett O'Hara. She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). She died onTuesday. 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. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. 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. 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 had two daughters from this marriage - Melanie and Francesca. Marni Nixon - the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr and others was unsung herself . British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. Her last visit to Glasgow was in 1990, when she was a member of the international jury at the European Film Awards. In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. You can always change this later in your Account settings. 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!" 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. She married a war hero Anthony Bartley in 1945 but divorced him in 1959. From this point on, Kerr was offered a wider variety of characters with a broader emotional range. Fred Zinnemann's Academy Award-winning . American British Deborah Kerr/Nationality. Kerr's roles as forceful, sometimes frustrated women expanded the limits of. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. 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. [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. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. 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. A system error has occurred. 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 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). Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunts drama school in Bristol, England. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. [4][5], Young Deborah spent the first three years of her life in the west coast town of Helensburgh, where her parents lived with Deborah's grandparents in a house on West King Street. Please reset your password. "My mother used to talk about her a lot and said she was a lovely person. In terms of lead actress nominations without a victory, Kerr now maintains the record. 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. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday. Failed to remove flower. After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. 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. [8] After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers: "I realised that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for". In 1959 she portrayed writer Sheilah Graham in the film Beloved Infidel. Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. Though she never won, in 1994 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement in films. 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. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 18 December 1951, who married to the actor John Shrapnel). She returned to the cinema one more time in 1985's The Assam Garden. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. 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 . Born: 22 February, 1930, in Altadena, California. Contribute Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos list. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). Search above to list available cemeteries. Neither film was much of a hit. Kerr's first marriage was to Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley RAF on 29 November 1945. In 45 films, in as many years, she seldom, if . Deborah Kerr, 86, the cultivated Scottish rose beloved in such 1950s blockbusters as. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Deborah Kerr (22285687)? Kerr performed the same role in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation released in 1956; her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) also appeared. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time. She is also one of the female myths of the seventh art. Kerr, Deborah. Pages in category "Deborah Kerr" This category contains only the following page. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. 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. In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Discovering an interest in acting, Kerr began playing bit parts in various Shakespeare productions. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Deborah Kerr, one of the great ladies of mid-20th century cinema, who epitomized grace and intelligence on screen, has died. At the age of sixteen she attended her aunt Phyllis Smales Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol. Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Legitimate theater) Vocation . She won a BAFTA Fellowship Award in 1991. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. Appeared in her first film, the 1941 production of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara." . She started taking part in productions at the Open Air Theater in Regent Park, London and changed her name to Deborah Kerr. Less than three weeks later, on 4 November, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape. Try again. "It was impossible to stop because the camera was shooting on Mr Culver and I couldn't break the scene. 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. For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with . To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star!" After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. 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. Kerr 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. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. 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. 1945-1959 . His father Arthur worked with Sir William Arrols bridge building firm, and Jack took up a post with them as well. Accidentally she dropped the coin, which slid down between the seats of her carriage. 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. You see, Kerr had a very strict grandmother who concocted a somewhat cruel form of therapy for her. and whose actions, in addition to their achievements, embody the Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. Failed to report flower. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. In 1975 she appeared on the Broadway stage in Edward Albees Seascape. 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. In marrying Viertel, she became stepmother to Viertel's daughter, Christine Viertel. Deborah was barely three. This is the last in a series of articles on the 2008 Sydney Film Festival. 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. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. Deborah Kerr has died at the age of 86 after a seven-year battle with Parkinson's disease. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). Deborah Kerr holds a candle in a scene from the film 'Black Narcissus', 1947. 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. To use this feature, use a newer browser. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. King Solomon's Mines (1950) was shot on location in Africa with Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. Appeared in her first film, the 1941. In 1947 she moved to Hollywood where she acted in The Hucksters in 1947, King Solomons Mines in 1950 and Quo Vadis in 1951. Not even the promise of another coin when they got home could stem the tears. Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. Deborah Kerr was one of the most famous English actresses of her time. An Affair to Remember in 1957 opposite Cary Grant made her immensely popular. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. graphics - January 9, 2014. 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. But despite her illustrious future, her childhood was not a walk in the park. St James Terrace, in W2, has since been renamed Ruskin Terrace. 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. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. 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 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). 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. Corrections? Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. 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