Underly raised more than $1.14 million and spent $818,063 between Feb. 2 and March 22, according to her campaign report. In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Deborah Kerr was a Scottish film and television actress. [15] She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. There was a problem getting your location. 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. Peter Viertelm. In 1947 she moved to Hollywood where she acted in The Hucksters in 1947, King Solomons Mines in 1950 and Quo Vadis in 1951. 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 . 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 died aged 86 on 16 October 2007 at Botesdale, a village in the county of Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease. Deborah Kerr received professional training as a ballet dancer and first appeared on stage in the year 1938 at Sadler's Wells, a performing arts venue in England. She reprised her role in the 1956 film adaptation. 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). In 45 films, in as many years, she seldom, if . 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). Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. At the age of sixteen she attended her aunt Phyllis Smales Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. She had a strong support role in Major Barbara (1941) directed by Gabriel Pascal. Deborah Kerr (19212007) was a British actress who holds the record - six - for most Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win. She was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. 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.. Once he was sufficiently confident, the couple travelled north to Helensburgh to join his parents. Her first appearance on the West End stage was as Ellie Dunn in "Heartbreak House" at the Cambridge Theatre in 1943. 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. She acted opposite Robert Mitchum in the film The Sundowners in 1960. Kerr's roles as forceful, sometimes frustrated women expanded the limits of. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. 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. After her Broadway dbut in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. 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. 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. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. [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. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). 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. In 1944 she was in the Clyde area on location, filming 'Perfect Strangers' with actor Roland Culver. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Although the British Army refused to co-operate with the producers and Winston Churchill thought the film would ruin wartime morale Colonel Blimp confounded critics when it proved to be an artistic and commercial success. She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. In marrying Viertel, she became stepmother to Viertel's daughter, Christine Viertel. 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. [1][13] She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't.[8]. 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. When Deborah was two, Arthur decided to retire from civil engineering at the age of 57 and go into business for himself. Please reset your password. But it wasn't long before. She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). Kerr had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. 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. She was decorative and unmemorable in prestige pictures such as King Solomon's Mines (1950) and Quo Vadis (1951). After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. From an early age, she staged dramatic presentations for her family. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. D Deborah Kerr Media in category "Deborah Kerr" Casino Royal was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968). A copy of her birth certificate confirmed that her birthplace was Glasgow. 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". 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. Kerr performed the same role in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation released in 1956; her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) also appeared. She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster were in From Here to Eternity (1953) together.. About. King Solomon's Mines (1950) was shot on location in Africa with Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. Her final screen appearance was in the TV miniseries Hold the Dream in 1986. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. Add to your scrapbook. Her agent Anne Hutton said she died on Tuesday in Suffolk, eastern England. Her father was an army engineer named Captain Arthur Kerr-Trimmer and her mother was Kathleen Rose. 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). 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. Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. This account has been disabled. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. 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 played ladies who didn't mind if their tramp showed. 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". [11], Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Neither film was much of a hit. Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960). 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. In 1977, she came back to the West End, playing the title role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. In 1955, Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. Deborah Jane Trimmer[1] CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/kr/), was a British actress. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. According to agent Anne Hutton, Kerr died on . Learn more about merges. American British Deborah Kerr/Nationality. [8][9] She adopted the name Deborah Kerr on becoming a film actress ("Kerr" was a family name going back to the maternal grandmother of her grandfather Arthur Kerr Trimmer). The film was a big hit in Britain. She played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) opposite her long-time friend Robert Mitchum, directed by John Huston. 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. Within three weeks after her death, her husband Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November. Deborah was barely three. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday. 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. Her parents were Kathleen ne Small and Arthur Kerr-Trimmer. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 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 was 86 and had suffered from Parkinson's disease. They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 18 December 1951, and subsequently married to the actor John Shrapnel). In 1959 she portrayed writer Sheilah Graham in the film Beloved Infidel. Thu 18 Oct 2007 19.06 EDT. Mar 30, 2021. She participated in some films considered great cinema classics, among . The following year she married author Peter Viertel, whose novel White Hunter, Black Heart was a thinly veiled portrait of Huston. [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. Marni Nixon dubbed Kerr's singing voice. Doctors decided that his leg had to be amputated, and he was so ill that his mother and his fiance Col were sent for. In September 2021, Kerr's grandsons, Joe and Lex Shrapnel, unveiled a memorial plaque at the former family home in Weston-super-Mare. Kerr, Deborah. To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star! She was 86. Beyond demonstrated She told a story about it in a letter sent in 1990 from her home in Marbella, Spain. 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. When she was 5 the family moved to Bristol, England, where the famously shy girl studied dance at her aunt's academy. She also did A Song at Twilight (1982). For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with Burt. 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). Deborah Kerr, who lived at her grandparents' house at Elmsleigh Road in Weston as a child, first stepped onto the stage at the resort's Knightstone Pavilion in 1937. Won the New York Film Critics' Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a nun in "Black Narcissus" (1947). Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. 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. He bought a small timber haulage firm in Alford, a rural parish on the borders of Surrey and Sussex, near Cranleigh. 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. 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. 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. Accidentally she dropped the coin, which slid down between the seats of her carriage. She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). Identikit and personal data Name Deborah Last name Kerr Born September 30, 1921 in Glasgow Died October 16, 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk Although she long resided in Klosters, Switzerland and Marbella, Spain, she moved back to Britain to be closer to her own children as her health began to deteriorate. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. You can always change this later in your Account settings. 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]). He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. She contended six times in Best Actress to little avail: "Edward, My Son" (1949), "From Here to Eternity . 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. After divorcing Anthony she married a writer, Peter Viertel. The theatre would become her first love, despite her enormous movie success, and she returned to it time and again. 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). It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. 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 was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Deborah Kerr (22285687)? Kerr, 63, is the former superintendent of the Brown Deer school district in suburban Milwaukee. She said that Deborah Kerr was staying with Mrs Kirkwood Brown and was a relative of hers. Deborah Kerr - as she came to be known - spent her early life in Helensburgh before moving with her parents to Gloucestershire. They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 18 December 1951, who married to the actor John Shrapnel). 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). 1960-2007 Anthony Bartleym. Nationality. Try again later. Oops, we were unable to send the email. 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 appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. [8] After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. 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. I was still to learn that Munshin, like many people from the capital, could talk openly about his personal life while remaining a dream of espionage in his business operations.Norman Mailer (b. Also in 1953 Kerr made an acclaimed debut on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy with her sensitive portrayal of a schoolteachers wife who has an affair with a young student insecure about his sexuality. A machine gun expert, he returned to action in France, but was shot through the right kneecap at the Battle of the Somme. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. 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]. 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. Her definitive role was as the Governess Anna Leonowens duelling with Yul Brynner in the King and I (1956). She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn (1942). 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. In a contentious race that has drummed up millions of dollars for campaigning and attack ads, Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly will face off April 6 for the top position overseeing K-12 . A system error has occurred. This was her grandparents house, her family moved to Elmsleigh Road in 1937 where she became a pupil at Rossholme School. 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). She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. 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. Kerr rejoined old screen partner Mitchum in Reunion at Fairborough (1985). R41 I thought 'Vacation from Marriage' was embarrassing. This is the last in a series of articles on the 2008 Sydney Film Festival. She has appeared in many films from her first appearance in Major Barbara (1941). Her final feature film was "The Assam Garden," also in 1985. TRIBUTES have been paid to legendary actress Deborah Kerr, who has died at her home in north Suffolk at the age of 86. She starred in The Day after The Fair on the London stage in 1972 and toured the United States with it in 1973. CELEBRITY HOMES: Revisiting Deborah Kerr's Former Home in the Huntington. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Less than three weeks . 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. 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. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy. From this point on, Kerr was offered a wider variety of characters with a broader emotional range. 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. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Kerr became known in Britain playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). 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. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. The film is as yet (2010) unreleased. 1945-1959 . Neither film was much of a hit. Born in Glasgow in 1921, Deborah was a ballet dancer (appearing at Sadler's Wells no less) before switching to acting when she became too tall. [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]. Kerr. For many years she had battled Parkinson's disease with the dignified grace and quiet wit she brought to her many roles. 1. The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.[17]. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) with Granger and Mason. [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. Full Real Name. 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. [18], 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. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer 30 September 1921 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Died 16 October 2007 (aged 86) Botesdale, Suffolk, England Resting place Alfold Cemetery near Guildford Occupation Actress Years active 1940-1986 Spouse(s) Tony Bartley (m. 1945; div. 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