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. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. 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. 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. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. and whose actions, in addition to their achievements, embody the We hope you enjoy it! "She has the rare gift", wrote critic Beverley Baxter, "of thinking her lines, not merely remembering them. When she was 5 the family moved to Bristol, England, where the famously shy girl studied dance at her aunt's academy. In 1978 she toured the US with the play The Last of Mrs. Cheney. A system error has occurred. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. 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. Her estimated net worth was $10 million. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Marni Nixon - the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr and others was unsung herself . 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. "Deborah Kerr/Rhymes With Star" was the promotion given to the demure actress appearing opposite brazen Ava Gardner in The Hucksters (1947). She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). House where The King and I star Deborah Kerr first learned to dance goes on sale for 1.85million. 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 . Funeral arrangements are incomplete. 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. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. In 1977, she came back to the West End, playing the title role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida. CELEBRITY HOMES: Revisiting Deborah Kerr's Former Home in the Huntington. 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. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. Deborah 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 Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born on Sept. 30, 1921, in Helensburgh, Scotland. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her dbut in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. A copy of her birth certificate confirmed that her birthplace was Glasgow. 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. 1960-2007 Anthony Bartleym. Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. She acted in the film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison opposite Robert Mitchum in 1957. [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. Neither film was much of a hit. When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is!". she is one of famous film and television actress (1921-2007) with the age years old group. Born: 22 February, 1930, in Altadena, California. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). [19] Although he was married to Elspeth March, he states that he and Kerr went on to have an affair. American British Deborah Kerr/Nationality. Actress. Failed to report flower. Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Legitimate theater) Vocation . After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Deborah Jane Trimmer, mer knd som Deborah Kerr, fdd 30 september 1921 i Glasgow i Skottland, [1] [2] dd 16 oktober 2007 i Botesdale i Suffolk, var en brittisk skdespelare.Bland Kerrs filmer mrks Det brjade i Berlin (1943), Svart narcissus (1947), Kung Salomos skatt (1950), Quo Vadis (1951), Hrifrn till evigheten (1953), Kungen och jag (1956), Allt om krlek (1957), Vem vet, Mr . 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. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. She also did A Song at Twilight (1982). Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. GREAT NEWS! Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. Deborah Kerr is British by birth. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. Kerr had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years. When her granny explained that there was no way of recovering the lost treasure, Deborah was inconsolable. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. In 1947 she moved to Hollywood where she acted in The Hucksters in 1947, King Solomons Mines in 1950 and Quo Vadis in 1951. She played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) opposite her long-time friend Robert Mitchum, directed by John Huston. Trained as a ballet dancer, she began acting on stage as a teenager and performed in stage productions at the Open Air Theatre in London and the Cambridge Theatre. Try again later. Kerr's roles as forceful, sometimes frustrated women expanded the limits of. Botesdale, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England. 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 became known playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Deborah Kerr won the New York Film Critics Award in 1947 for Black Narcissus and was voted one of the top earning English stars by Motion Picture Herald poll. 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. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. Her parents were Kathleen ne Small and Arthur Kerr-Trimmer. Trained as a ballet dancer, she began acting on stage as a teenager and performed in stage productions at the Open Air Theatre in London and the Cambridge Theatre. 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. Deborah Kerr, one of the great ladies of mid-20th century cinema, who epitomized grace and intelligence on screen, has died. Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. 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. Richard Stirling pieces together the glamourous life of screen actress Deborah Kerr "Deborah Kerr - it rhymes with star!" screamed MGM of its latest acquisition in 1946. 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]. 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. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died in Suffolk, eastern England, according to her agent, Anne Hutton. She married a war hero Anthony Bartley in 1945 but divorced him in 1959. 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". Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. Kerr became known in Britain playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. Try again later. 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). She received her second New York Film Critics Award, a fourth Academy Award nomination and a second Golden Globe Award nomination for the film Heaven Knows Mr. Allison in 1957. For this performance, Kerr was nominated for an Emmy Award. The BritishHeritage.org seeks to recognize individuals who have attained She had a younger brother, Edmund (Teddy). Kerr's first marriage was to Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley RAF on 29 November 1945. Try again later. Kerr rejoined old screen partner Mitchum in Reunion at Fairborough (1985). Actress. It is considered among the most romantic films of all time according to the American Film Institute. Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. 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. 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 a Scottish film and television actress. Her final feature film was "The Assam Garden," also in 1985. 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. HELENSBURGH people have long embraced Deborah Kerr as their very own film star, but the time she spent in the town was very short. 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. [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. cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Deborah Kerr I found on Findagrave.com. But she was not Helensburgh-born. From an early age, she staged dramatic presentations for her family. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. D Deborah Kerr Media in category "Deborah Kerr" On one occasion she gave my mother a 10 tip, and that was a lot of money in those days.. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. However varied her Hollywood roles, she delivered performances of greater nuance and depth in the European-made films The End of the Affair (1955) - again, as a conscience-stricken adulteress - and Bonjour, Tristesse (1958), as a fashion designer provoked by her lover's daughter. Garbo sightings were reported breathlessly; even. Kerr's first marriage was to Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley on 29 November 1945. Jack and his brother Ted were sent to Gallipoli with the East Lancashire Regiment, where Ted was eventually killed by a sniper and a wounded Jack was sent home to recover. 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. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunts drama school in Bristol, England. . 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. [22][23][24] She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. She is most remembered for From Here to . She made Young Bess (1953) with Granger and Jean Simmons, then appeared alongside Cary Grant in Dream Wife (1953), a flop comedy. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, better known as Deborah Kerr (born 30 September 1921 in Glasgow - dead 16 October 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk), was a British film, stage and TV actress from Scotland. 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. By. 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. [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). 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. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. [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. This account has been disabled. King Solomon's Mines (1950) was shot on location in Africa with Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. After her Broadway dbut in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. "Finally the scene was over and I leapt to my feet and screamed I found I had been sitting on an ants nest! In a trembling voice at what would be her last public appearance, she said to the assembled: "Thank you for giving me a happy life.". 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. The following year they moved south to Alford. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) with Granger and Mason. "It was impossible to stop because the camera was shooting on Mr Culver and I couldn't break the scene. Deborah Kerr died age of 86 in Suffolk, England, on October 16, 2007, due to complications arising out of Parkinson's disease. Her zodiac sign is Libra. 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. 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. This browser does not support getting your location. Deborah Kerr came into this world on September 30, 1921, in Glasgow Scotland as Deborah Jane Trimmer. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. She starred in The Day after The Fair on the London stage in 1972 and toured the United States with it in 1973. Her first steps on the stage were as a ballet dancer, training with. 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. 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. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Learn more about managing a memorial . Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. 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, 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. 'Bing's Lucky Number: Pa Crosby Dons 4th B.O. 1945-1959 . Appeared in her first film, the 1941 production of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara." 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. [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. One day she came home from work and was very excited. Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. 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