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  Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September, 1921) is a Scottish actress and a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance.
Kerr suffers from Parkinson's disease, and though she long resided in Switzerland and Spain, Kerr has since moved back to The British Isles, specifically to England, to be closer to her children.
Deborah Kerr is a fine artist with over 25 years experience, her passion for detail and life like imagery is expressed in all her paintings.
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  An Affair to Remember - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as a couple who meet on an ocean liner, fall in love, and promise to reunite in six months at the top of the Empire State Building if they still feel the same.
The song is sung by Vic Damone during the opening credits and then sung later by Deborah Kerr's character, a nightclub singer.
Kerr's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed for Kerr in the film The King and I.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_Affair_to_Remember   (369 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr at Reel Classics
Kerr herself was recognized by the New York Film Critics Circle as the year's best actress for her performances in BLACK NARCISSUS and the British spy thriller I SEE A DARK STRANGER (1946).
Her successes in Britain brought Kerr to the attention of MGM and its head of production, Louis B. Mayer, who was so impressed with her talents, he bought out the remainder of Kerr's English contract and brought her to Hollywood with one of the highest starting salaries ever paid by MGM -- $3000/week.
Kerr's passionate kiss with Burt Lancaster in the Hawaiian surf -- one of the most famous embraces in the history of film -- exemplified a new side of her screen persona that audiences had never seen before Fred Zinnemann's World War II drama FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953).
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Kerr/kerr.htm   (511 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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.
Deborah displayed a penchant for dramatics at a very early age when she would stage presentations for her family.
At her own suggestion, Deborah joined the Salvation Army as a volunteer so that she could gain insight into her character.
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 Film/Classics: King Solomon's Mines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He meets with the woman, played by a young, fresh and very sincere Deborah Kerr, who convinces him to undertake the safari, which he considers mad, only because she was willing to pay enough to take care of his son's education in England.
The movie is dated a bit in the beginning because of the Edwardian-style outfits worn by Deborah Kerr, but once her safari with Quartermain, starts, the adventure could have been yesterday, although it is a little slow-moving, which is not inappropriate given the means of travel, which is mostly on foot.
Kerr, of course, would go on to a long and glamorous reign as England's prettiest star, who managed to convey considable sexuality beneath a pleasant air of primness, but would be overtaken by the ascendancy of Grace Kelly just a few years after this film.
www.thecityreview.com /kingsol.htm   (1773 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr at Hollywood.com
Kerr moved into leads in an adaptation of the controversial novel which was England's equivalent of "The Grapes of Wrath", the touching study of Depression-era poverty, "Love on the Dole" (1940).
Although she did well in films including the grim "Hatter's Castle" (1941), it was really Kerr's lovely work in three roles in the splendid Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger time-spanning saga "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), as the various women in the hero's life, that really set her on top.
One of the most famous images of Kerr's career was that of her straying wife in "From Here to Eternity" (1953) making love on the beach with military officer Burt Lancaster.
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Deborah_Kerr/194475   (1976 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr Foundation for the Performing Arts
Deborah Kerr was on her way to a career in ballet when she took an interest in acting.
Deborah Kerr and Peter Viertel in town and house-guesting with the Irving Lazars.
Deborah Kerr returned to Hollywood after a week of rehearsals and conferences at the Witchita location of MGM's "THE GYPSY MOTHS," in which she stars with Burt Lancaster.
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 The Lady - Interview with Deborah Kerr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Director Fred Zinneman's suggestion of Deborah Kerr for the sex-hungry army wife, Karen Holmes, was met by laughter - but then the producers realised what a publicity coup casting "the English virgin" could actually be.
Deborah made two more films: the good, but unsuccessful, The Arrangement, directed again by Ella Kazan, and The Gypsy Moths, in which she joined her old Eternity partner Burt Lancaster.
Today, as Deborah Kerr approaches her 80th birthday, she is still a star - no one can deny that.
www.lady.co.uk /articles/0139artA.cfm?framed=y   (1374 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Deborah Kerr : Biography
A cultured actress renowned for her elegance and dignity, Deborah Kerr was one of the leading ladies of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Kerr retired from the screen in 1969, having received six Best Actress Oscar nominations without an award, although she did receive an honorary Oscar in 1994.
Kerr, who graced the screen one more time in the The Assam Garden in 1985, is married to novelist/screenwriter Peter Viertel.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/33478/bio.jhtml   (400 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr | Biography (born 1921)
Deborah Kerr-Trimmer, born in Helensburgh, Scotland in 1921 was the most renowned British film actress of her generation, achieving international stardom when she moved to Hollywood in 1947.
Kerr distinguished herself in Love on the Dole (1941), Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, and salary £5,000) and Black Narcissus (1947).
In 1960, after her divorce from her husband Anthony Bartley, by whom she had two daughters (Melanie Jane, born on December 27, 1947 and Francesca Ann), Kerr married Peter Viertel and moved to Switzerland.
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 Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr (born September 30, 1921) is a Scottish film actress.
She was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland, and originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938.
Deborah Kerr's Academy Award-nominated performances (all for Best Actress):.
www.ftppro.com /library/Deborah_Kerr   (411 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr on Turner Classic Movies - TCM - Specialty Channels
It was 1947 when Kerr came to the United States and MGM, where she continued her successful roles.
Kerr also worked on Broadway and went onto star in one of her best-known roles as Anna in The King and I (1957).
Kerr was nominated six times for Oscars and never won, but was awarded a special Oscar in 1994.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art19014.asp   (329 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr Biography
Deborah Kerr has a distinguished record in some of the most vivid British films of the 1940s and some of the most memorable Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s.
Her role as the governess in The King and I (1956) is almost a parody of the qualities she brought to other dramatic roles: the spirited, independent woman, a little constrained by good breeding, up against a masculine force she had to bring under control.
In her second film, John Baxter's tough tragedy of the Depression, Love on the Dole (1941), she plays the working-class daughter who cynically sells herself to a rich spiv after the man she loved is killed in a demonstration.
www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/k/001.html   (235 words)

  
 TCM looks back at Deborah Kerr - Entertainment - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In point of fact, Miss Kerr, the subject of a retrospective series scheduled for Thursday evenings this month on Turner Classic Movies, is a Scot, born in Helensburgh in 1921 and schooled in both dance and drama in Bristol before she emerged as a promising newcomer to English films in the early 1940s.
Miss Kerr was entrusted with three look-alike roles in "Colonel Blimp," but two of her characters met premature deaths off-screen.
It was always suspected that MGM acquired Deborah Kerr as (1) insurance in case Greer Garson got difficult or (2) protection against another studio wanting a rival to Miss Garson.
washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20060407-090604-5217r   (513 words)

  
 DOME: Deborah Knight-Kerr: Career Champion
She was a secretary in pediatrics hoping to move up to administrative assistant, but in her bid to find a new job, she’d endured four rejections.
That was back in 1978, and ever since, Deborah Knight-Kerr has been on a slow but steady rise to her current position as director of Community and Education Projects at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
“When Deborah comes to the school, she tries to spend as much time as possible with the children in the classroom,” says Charletta Logan-Generette, Tench Tilghman principal.
www.hopkinsmedicine.org /dome/0405/profile.cfm   (949 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Innocents (1961) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kerr, the governess, "Miss Giddons dear" and faintly mocking tones, they dominate the movie; their haunting and possession by the dead servants, Quint and Miss Jessel, are something to see.
Kerr plays governess to two children one of which may or may not be the victim of possession.
Kerr's spectral visions are as solid as the furniture -- they're just harder to find, and lot scarier; the film is an example of how little one needs to resort to SPFX when one knows how to make drama.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303957064?v=glance   (1992 words)

  
 An Affair to Remember: Studio Classics (1957)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner andi all deeply in love.
As he cruises on a ship from Italy to New York, he encounters Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) when she finds his cigarette case.
She discusses her involvement in the film, her working relationship with Kerr, her struggle to get formal credit, and a few other relevant topics.
www.dvdmg.com /affairtoremember.shtml   (1886 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr Apperal:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Deborah Kerr's exquisitely detailed creations are a breath of fresh air in a rapidly changing world of look-alike, poor quality garments.
Kerr's designs are distinguished by her signature styling: decidedly contemporary while imbued with the tasteful elegance reminiscent of a more formal time.
Impeccably detailed: From individually hemmed layers to hand appliqué and bead-work, every Deborah Kerr original is hand finished with careful attention to even the smallest detail.
www.deborahkerrapparel.com   (219 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr DVDs; Deborah Kerr Filmography; Deborah Kerr Brief Biography
Originally the classical 'English Rose (though Scottish born!), Deborah Kerr's steamy beach scene with Burt Lancaster in 'From Here To Etermity (1953)' changed all that, but, in ''The King And I (1956)', normality was restored.
Kerr was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar no fewer than six times - though she never won.
After a long battle against Parkinson's disease, Deborah Kerr passed away on October 16th, 2007, in Suffolk, England.
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 Deborah Kerr @ Filmbug
She was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921, and originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938.
However, her most famous role was as the governess, Anna Leonowens, in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The King and I. An un-successful six-time nominee for an Academy Award, she finally voted a special Oscar honoring her screen work.
Deborah Kerr's Academy Award-nominated performances (all for Best Actress): Edward, my son, From here to eternity, The king and I, Heaven knows, Mr.
www.filmbug.com /db/29979   (247 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The King and I: DVD: Deborah Kerr,Yul Brynner,Rita Moreno,Martin Benson,Terry Saunders,Rex Thompson,Carlos ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Deborah Kerr (who was nominated for Best Actress) is also superb as Anna, the English widow who teaches the king's children.
My favorite moment in the film is when Brynner first puts his arm around Kerr's waist, in the "Shall We Dance?" number, and their chemistry together sizzles more than many of the explicit love scenes we see on the screen today.
Deborah Kerr's singing voice was dubbed by Marni Nixon (who also dubbed in "West Side Story," "My Fair Lady," and more), as was Rita Moreno, dubbed by Leona Gordon.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305280770?v=glance   (1742 words)

  
 Deborah Kerr - MovieActors.com
Deborah Kerr was born on September 30, 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland.
Sometimes Deborah Kerr is creditied as Deborah Kerr - Trimmer or Deborah Kerr - Viertel.
Deborah Kerr is mother-in-law of actor John Shrapnel, who married her daughter Francesca.
www.movieactors.com /actors/deborahkerr.htm   (167 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Sundowners, the : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) loves being "someone whose home is where the sun goes down," but his wife (Deborah Kerr) and teenage son are tired of the nomadic life and want to settle down.
One of the high points is a sheep-shearing sequence (the normally self-assured Mitchum was so nervous about accidentally harming an animal that he required a few bottles of beer for fortification before shooting the scene).
Deborah Kerr shines as Ida, the tough but sensitive wife who stands by her man through thick and thin (mostly thin).
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0790732033   (742 words)

  
 Meredy's Deborah Kerr Trivia Mania
To download FREE Deborah Kerr wallpaper left click on the thumbnail below and a large image [800 x 600] will load in a separate window.
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 A Tribute to Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr holds the record for most Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win (6), which is all the more impressive considering that she quit the movie business in 1968, after expressing her dislike for the excessive sex and violence in films.
She appeared in only one theatrical film after 1969 (when the films she had been working on earlier were released), concentrating instead on stage and TV roles.
Born in Scotland on September 30, 1921, and originally trained as a dancer, Deborah Kerr began appearing on stage in England in the late 30s, thanks to the efforts of a radio star aunt.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa093001a.htm   (590 words)

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