Kerr won a third New York Film Critics Award and a sixth Academy Award nomination in 1960 and a BAFTA Award nomination in 1961 for the film Sundowners. Neither film was much of a hit. In 1965, the producers of Carry On Screaming! Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. The expectant mum was taken to a private nursing home at 7 St James Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow, where her first child, Deborah Jane Trimmer, was born at 7.40am on September 30 1921, and her father registered the birth in the city on October 21. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. You see, Kerr had a very strict grandmother who concocted a somewhat cruel form of therapy for her. [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. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). Deborah Kerr died age of 86 in Suffolk, England, on October 16, 2007, due to complications arising out of Parkinsons disease. Miss Kerr is survived by Viertel, her husband of 47 years; two daughters; and three grandchildren. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Deborah Kerr (22285687)? She returned to the cinema one more time in 1985's The Assam Garden. [10], Kerr returned to the London stage in many productions including the old-fashioned, The Day After the Fair (Lyric, 1972), a Peter Ustinov comedy, Overheard (Haymarket, 1981) and a revival of Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green. cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. 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. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. This account has been disabled. Film, TV, Theatre - Actors and Originators, Sir John Gielgud - "the best Hamlet of our time", Jason Statham - Fast and Furious For Sure, Peter Ustinov - "He could make anyone laugh. Not long after marrying former RAF squadron leader Anthony Bartley in 1945, Miss Kerr was imported to MGM Studios, where mogul Louis B. Mayer molded her in the Jeanette MacDonald/Greer Garson form of great lady. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Once he was sufficiently confident, the couple travelled north to Helensburgh to join his parents. [6][7], Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Jack returned to the Roehampton hospital to learn to walk with an artificial leg, while Col stayed in a nearby hotel and was always on hand to help and encourage. Doctors decided that his leg had to be amputated, and he was so ill that his mother and his fiance Col were sent for. Deborah Jane Trimmer[1] CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/kr/), was a British actress. The theatre would become her first love, despite her enormous movie success, and she returned to it time and again. Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. 1959) Peter Viertel (m. 1960) Children 2 Melanie and Francesca. Deborah Kerr died on 16 October 2007 in Botesdale, a village in Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease. 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. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Marthas School in Surrey and then at the Northumberland House Boarding School in Clifton, Bristol. She was 86. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. 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. The Scottish-born actress will forever be associated with her roles in. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. Updates? 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. 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. Died: 24 July, 2016 in New York City, aged 86. [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). Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. Kerr's first marriage was to Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley on 29 November 1945. Kerr became known playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). But she was not Helensburgh-born. Her final feature film was "The Assam Garden," also in 1985. 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). Discovering an interest in acting, Kerr began playing bit parts in various Shakespeare productions. 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. In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Deborah Kerr was a Scottish film and television actress. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. In 1998 she was awarded the CBE, but speaking from her home in Switzerland said that she felt too frail to travel to London to receive it personally. She had a strong support role in Major Barbara (1941) directed by Gabriel Pascal. Kerr, Deborah. 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. In 1964 she received a fourth BAFTA Award nomination for the film Chalk Garden. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. The race was officially nonpartisan, but Democrats and their money lined up solidly behind Underly. She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) with Granger and Mason. Mar 30, 2021. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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. Both were aged 28. She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960). She made two films at MGM: The Journey (1959) reunited her with Brynner; Count Your Blessings (1959), was a comedy. Garbo sightings were reported breathlessly; even. When her granny explained that there was no way of recovering the lost treasure, Deborah was inconsolable. Thu 18 Oct 2007 19.06 EDT. 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. Other TV roles included Ann and Debbie (1986) and Hold the Dream (1986), the latter a sequel to A Woman of Substance. 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. Casino Royal was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968). She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950). For this performance, Kerr was nominated for an Emmy Award. Deborah Kerr had to wear the padded bras because that was the other fashion of the 50s. Oct. 18, 2007 Deborah Kerr, a versatile actress who long projected the quintessential image of the proper, tea-sipping Englishwoman but who was also indelible in one of the most sexually. Countless newspaper, magazine and website articles say that the Scottish girl who became the archetypal movie perfect English rose was born in the burgh. She is also one of the female myths of the seventh art. Kerr rejoined old screen partner Mitchum in Reunion at Fairborough (1985). She appeared in Separate Tables in 1958. She made her TV screen debut for CBS with Witness for the Prosecution in 1982. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy. Family members linked to this person will appear here. 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. When Deborah was two, Arthur decided to retire from civil engineering at the age of 57 and go into business for himself. ACTRESS Deborah Kerr, star of From Here To Eternity and The King And I, has died aged 86 in Suffolk. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. 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. She acted in a film adaption of Bernard Shaws work titled Major Barbara and then in the lead role in Love on the Dole in 1940. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? 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. The Famous People. 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. She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960). Please try again later. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. She was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. Born on 16 October 2007 in United Kingdom, Deborah Kerr started her career as film and television actress (1921-2007) . Her flutelike voice was also unique. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. 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. 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. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. 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. She had a strong support role in Major Barbara (1941) directed by Gabriel Pascal. She married a war hero Anthony Bartley in 1945 but divorced him in 1959. 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). Corrections? I thought you might like to see a memorial for Deborah Kerr I found on Findagrave.com. Kerr became known in Britain playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Filmed in CinemaScope, it was distributed by 20th Century Fox. 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 . She was offered a five-year contract and her first role was in a spy drama Contraband in 1939 which was never screened. 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). She has appeared in many films from her first appearance in Major Barbara (1941). "My mother used to talk about her a lot and said she was a lovely person. There was a problem getting your location. She reprised her role in the 1956 film adaptation. 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. Her estimated net worth was $10 million. 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.

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