She married a war hero Anthony Bartley in 1945 but divorced him in 1959. 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. 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. She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) with Granger and Mason. Her agent Anne Hutton said she died on Tuesday in Suffolk, eastern England. A system error has occurred. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. In 1943 she acted on the London stage in George Bernard Shaws adaptation Heartbreak House. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. In 1964 she received a fourth BAFTA Award nomination for the film Chalk Garden. She won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her dbut in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. 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. Actress. The theatre would become her first love, despite her enormous movie success, and she returned to it time and again. The film was a big hit in Britain. She acted in the Oxford Repertory Company from 1939 to 1940. In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape. They were the genteel girl and the brassy babe vying for Clark Gable's attention. 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". Garbo sightings were reported breathlessly; even. Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunts drama school in Bristol, England. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? 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 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. The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. In marrying Viertel, she became stepmother to Viertel's daughter, Christine Viertel. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. There was a problem getting your location. Deborah Kerr is the former superintendent of the Brown Deer School District in northern Milwaukee and says her 20 years of experience in that role has prepared her to lead the state Department of Instruction (DPI) and tackle issues like the achievement gap. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. 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]. A copy of her birth certificate confirmed that her birthplace was Glasgow. She performed in France, Belgium and Holland with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association, or Every Night Something Awful) - The British Army entertainment service. Her father was an army engineer named Captain Arthur Kerr-Trimmer and her mother was Kathleen Rose. Although at the time he was married to Elspeth March, he states that he and Kerr went on to have an affair. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. For this performance, Kerr was nominated for an Emmy Award. 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). . 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. In 1965, the producers of Carry On Screaming! She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). They divorced in 1959. In 1947 she moved to Hollywood where she acted in The Hucksters in 1947, King Solomons Mines in 1950 and Quo Vadis in 1951. There was an error deleting this problem. 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". She was 86. However the operation was successful, and the long hard road to recovery began. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. She acted in television movies A Song at Twilight in 1973. The film was directed by Fred Zinnemann,. Likewise Burt Lancaster claimed that he was romantically involved with her during the filming of From Here to Eternity (1953). King Solomon's Mines (1950) was shot on location in Africa with Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. Deborah was barely three. Casino Royale was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968). 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. But despite her illustrious future, her childhood was not a walk in the park. Kerr rejoined old screen partner Mitchum in Reunion at Fairborough (1985). R41 I thought 'Vacation from Marriage' was embarrassing. The actor Stewart Granger claimed that Kerr seduced him in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). Deborah Jane Trimmer[1] CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/kr/), was a British actress. Also Known As: Deborah Trimmer, Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Deborah Kerr Viertel, Spouse/Ex-: Anthony Bartley (married 1945), divorced 1959), Peter Viertel (married 19602007; her death), children: Christine Viertel (stepdaughter), Francesca Ann Bartley (born 1951), Melanie Jane Bartley (born 1947), See the events in life of Deborah Kerr in Chronological Order, (British Actress Who was Known for Her Impeccable Grace and Beauty), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoeQJ_fzQ. Unfortunately, the Academy didn't like Kerr as much as the New York critics. After her Broadway dbut in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. 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. 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. She was 86. Countless newspaper, magazine and website articles say that the Scottish girl who became the archetypal movie perfect English rose was born in the burgh. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. She received six Academy Award nominations for best actress and was awarded an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 1993. 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. This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 05:21. She was the superintendent for Brown . She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 18 December 1951, who married to the actor John Shrapnel). Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. Born: 22 February, 1930, in Altadena, California. She was decorative and unmemorable in prestige pictures such as King Solomon's Mines (1950) and Quo Vadis (1951). To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer billed her as "Kerr rhymes with Star!" Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. 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. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. ACTRESS Deborah Kerr, star of From Here To Eternity and The King And I, has died aged 86 in Suffolk. She was born in Hillhead on 1921-09-30. But Deborah . Born on 16 October 2007 in United Kingdom, Deborah Kerr started her career as film and television actress (1921-2007) . [citation needed]. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. On one occasion she gave my mother a 10 tip, and that was a lot of money in those days.. 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". 1960-2007 Anthony Bartleym. Kerr rejoined old screen partner Mitchum in Reunion at Fairborough (1985). When Miss Kerr tore into director John Huston after a sequence shot in the water, the actor was so shocked that he nearly drowned laughing. 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 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. She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). But she never lost her love, or connection, with Scotland.. Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. 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. Omissions? Best Known For. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Kerr had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years. We have set your language to Though she never won, in 1994 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement in films. She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. 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. In 1945 she toured Europe with the play Gaslight to entertain the British Troops. 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. Deborah Kerr (Photo credit: Wikipedia). According to agent Anne Hutton, Kerr died on . 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She said that Deborah Kerr was staying with Mrs Kirkwood Brown and was a relative of hers. Thanks for your help! Kerr experienced a career resurgence on television in the early 1980s when she played the role of the nurse (played by Elsa Lanchester in the 1957 film of the same name) in Witness for the Prosecution, with Sir Ralph Richardson. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. She had a strong support role in Major Barbara (1941) directed by Gabriel Pascal. Try again. She played ladies who didn't mind if their tramp showed. 1. In 1944 she was in the Clyde area on location, filming 'Perfect Strangers' with actor Roland Culver. 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. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Sorry! 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. She started taking part in productions at the Open Air Theater in Regent Park, London and changed her name to Deborah Kerr. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. 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. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. The Scottish-born actress will forever be associated with her roles in. 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. 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 impossible to stop because the camera was shooting on Mr Culver and I couldn't break the scene. 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. Her death, in Suffolk, England, was announced on Thursday by her. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? [10], Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. 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. Though the alabaster-skinned redhead was honored that evening for her "impeccable grace and beauty," the secret of Miss Kerr's singular appeal was her devil-may-care peccability. The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing". It is considered among the most romantic films of all time according to the American Film Institute. She also performed with the Oxford Repertory Company. 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. Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (ne Smale) and Capt. Deborah Kerr holds a candle in a scene from the film 'Black Narcissus', 1947. Kerr's first marriage was to Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley on 29 November 1945. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? She was the female lead in Penn of Pennsylvania (1941) which was little seen; however Hatter's Castle (1942), in which she starred with Robert Newton and James Mason, was very successful. [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]. Durdham Lodge was owned by Kerr's aunt Phyllis Smale, who ran it as a dance academy in the 1930s . Yet, despite . The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.[17]. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. Corrections? Not even the promise of another coin when they got home could stem the tears. 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 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]). Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). Her parents were Kathleen ne Small and Arthur Kerr-Trimmer. She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. CELEBRITY HOMES: Revisiting Deborah Kerr's Former Home in the Huntington. After divorcing Anthony she married a writer, Peter Viertel. The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing". The plan was that Jack, Col and little Deborah should follow after Jack had worked out his contract with Sir William Arrol, and in 1923 they moved to Ardencaple Quadrant, where homes had been built for those wounded in the war. She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950). Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post | October 19, 2007. "[21], 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. 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. After 1947 Kerr established herself in Hollywood, typecast by MGMin what Kerr referred to as tiara rolesas a well-bred young British matron. Many Hollywood stars of the wartime generation ended their careers in cameo roles or cult movies, even schlock horror or, worst of all, television soaps. 0 cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). In 1955 she got a nomination for the BAFTA Award for The End of the Affair. Andrew, Penelope. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born on Sept. 30, 1921, in Helensburgh, Scotland. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. [1][13] She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. Beyond demonstrated 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 played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn (1942). You see, Kerr had a very strict grandmother who concocted a somewhat cruel form of therapy for her. What nationality was Deborah Kerr? Deborah Kerr, 86, the cultivated Scottish rose beloved in such 1950s blockbusters as From Here to Eternity, The King and I, and An Affair to Remember, died Tuesday in Suffolk, England. She married Peter Viertel, a novelist and screenwriter, in 1960 and they lived in Klosters, Switzerland for many years. She made A Woman of Substance in 1984 and Reunion at Fairborough in 1985. She was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. A machine gun expert, he returned to action in France, but was shot through the right kneecap at the Battle of the Somme. In 1977, she came back to the West End, playing the title role in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. This browser does not support getting your location. She won a BAFTA Fellowship Award in 1991. In 1955 she acted in the film version of Graham Greenes The End of the Affair. [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. She starred in The Day after The Fair on the London stage in 1972 and toured the United States with it in 1973. British director Michael Powell gave her a role in film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in 1943 in which she appeared thrice. She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn (1942). Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. Her definitive role was as the Governess Anna Leonowens duelling with Yul Brynner in the King and I (1956). She acted in The Innocents and also in the BBC production Three Roads to Rome in 1961. On 30 September 2021, on what would have been Kerr's one hundredth birthday, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Philip Braat, unveiled a memorial plaque in Ruskin Terrace, on the site of the nursing home where Kerr was born. Family members linked to this person will appear here. From this point on, Kerr was offered a wider variety of characters with a broader emotional range. In "Bohemian Rhapsody," Rami Malek starred as Freddie Mercury, but his singing voice was an "amalgamation of a few voices." There are no volunteers for this cemetery. She first appeared on stage as Harlequin in 1937 for 'Harlequin And Columbine'. The elegant and talented actress died in Suffolk, England on October 16, 2007. In 1964 she acted in Tennessee Williams The Night of The Iguana and also starred in The Chalk Garden. Deborah Kerr died from the effects of Parkinson's disease on 16 October 2007 at the age of 86 in the English village of Botesdale, Suffolk. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday. Please reset your password. In between Paramount borrowed her to appear in Thunder in the East (1951) with Alan Ladd. 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 had a younger brother, Edmund (Teddy). [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. The BritishHeritage.org seeks to recognize individuals who have attained Peter Viertel died of cancer on 4 November 2007, less than three weeks later. 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 . "Finally the scene was over and I leapt to my feet and screamed I found I had been sitting on an ants nest! She reprised her role in the 1956 film adaptation. In 1941 she made her British film debut in a supporting role as a Salvation Army volunteer in the film adaptation of George Bernard Shaws Major Barbara. Her zodiac sign is Libra. Her parents, Captain Arthur Charles Trimmer and Kathleen Rose Trimmer, nee Smale, who were married at the brides home town of Lydney, Gloucestershire, on August 21 1919, were living in Helensburgh at the time. 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). She appeared in the films Julius Caesar and From Here to Eternity in 1953. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. 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. Identikit and personal data Name Deborah Last name Kerr Born September 30, 1921 in Glasgow Died October 16, 2007 in Botesdale, Suffolk When she was 5 the family moved to Bristol, England, where the famously shy girl studied dance at her aunt's academy. Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. 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