Deborah was married twice, her second husband Peter Viertel passed away two weeks after Deborah.(married 47 years) She left behind two daughters & three grandsons & her dear companion & personal assistant Faith of nearly 30 years. She was loved & admired by millions of adoring fans who knew she was simply as beautiful on the inside as out.
Deborah loved to spend time in her flower garden. She enjoyed needlepoint,painting,music, reading,ballet,theater & Alastair Cook's - ' Letter From America'(radio). She loved cats and dogs(small terriers) owls & ducks. Favorite color - Blue. Favorite flower- Coral pink roses. Favorite birthday treats- Salmon & pink champagne.
She was very shy an introvert. She loved to joke and she had a beautiful laugh & smile.
She came to Hollywood a young star of stage & film and stayed for many years living in California. She later lived the majority of her adult life dividing her time between her two homes in Klosters, Switzerland & Marbella,Spain. The last years of her life were spent in England. A shy young girl who lived in a small English village who dreamed of becoming an actress one day & her dream came true.
Music
Dvorak's - 'New World Symphony'
Johann Strauss - 'The Blue Danube'
The Dubliners - 'The Irish Rover'
Nat King Cole - 'Autumn Leaves'
Julio Iglesias - 'Me Olvir De Vivide'
The Carpenters - 'You're The One'
Movies
Citizen Kane
Oliver (the musical)
Favorite Celebs: Albert Finney;John McEnroe;Diana, Princess Of Wales
(Deborah with actress Audrey Hepburn)
I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people who are being persecuted for anything
Years from now, when you talk about this -- and you will -- be kind. --DK, her famous line as she is about to bed a 17-year-old schoolboy in the play and film version of "Tea and Sympathy"
I'm almost hysterical at the thought of making people cry with joy 30-odd years after Cary [Grant] and I did our stuff. I've certainly shed tears at "An Affair to Remember", even though I know all the tricks of movie magic that went into it. Believe me, Cary and I knew how to kiss. When we did a love scene, we may not have been trying to swallow each other but, for those brief moments, we just loved each other.
Deborah's Favorite Leading Men - The three actors she most liked working with (and on several occasions) were Robert Mitchum, Cary Grant, and David Niven. All three were also very good friends of hers.
She didn't work with many actresses because she usually had the leading lady role - but she did work with Jean Simmons a few times and Jean also remained a good friend throughout Deborah's life. She also enjoyed working with Glynis Johns and Jean Seberg.
Her best female friend in Hollywood was Dinah Shore.
DEBORAH KERR MOVIE POSTERS
Television
News & Current Affairs Horse-Racing Tennis Costume Dramas(period piece)
Books
John Irving - 'Hotel New Hampshire'
Han Suyin - 'A Mortal Flower'
Heroes
Yehudi Menuhin Anna Pavlova WilliamShakespeare
DEBORAH'S LEADING MEN
Deborah Kerr's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Helensburgh, Scotland
Body type:
5' 6" / Slim / Slender
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Libra
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
Professional Actress
Income:
$250,000 and Higher
Deborah Kerr Enjoy your Sunday may it be blessed with happiness & love Posted 5 hours ago view more
I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much - Deborah Kerr
At the top of the list of what makes a
successful marriage, is a sense of humor.
- Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr Fast Facts
* Abandoned ballet dancing to focus on an acting career.
* Made her screen debut in a bit part in 1940's Contraband; first big breakout role was 1947's Black Narcissus.
* Perhaps best known for her iconic beach scene with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953).
* Her singing role was famously dubbed by Marni Nixon in The King And I.( Deborah sang one song in the film,I Whistle A Happy Tune) Deborah also did 'Shall I Tell You What I Think of You' - which was cut from the movie but which is on the CD.
* Honored as a Commander of the British Empire in 1998.
Deborah with Marni Nixon
Deborah & Marnie Nixon in the recording studio for The King & I
OSCAR Nominations
1949 EDWARD, MY SON Best Actress Nomination
1953 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Best Actress Nomination
1956 THE KING AND I Best Actress Nomination
1957 HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON Best Actress Nomination
1958 SEPARATE TABLES Best Actress Nomination
1960 THE SUNDOWNERS Best Actress Nomination
1993 HONORARY OSCAR for Career Achievement
If my memory serves me right, my two daughters, Melanie & Francesca, were with me for the ceremony, and although I was thrilled with the honour, THEY were absolutely thrilled at the idea of mummy plunging her hands into wet cement! They would have loved to have done it too!
Dk's & Yul Brenner's hand & foot prints.Ceremony #112: March 22,1956. Mann's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, CA (formerly Gruman's Chinese Theatre)
Dk's Star 1711 Vine St - corner of Hollywood & Vine, Hollywood CA. DK's star was located in front of the famous Brown Derby Restaurant until it went out of business.
DK & Yul Brenner's wax figures from The King & I Movieland Wax Museum, Buena Park,CA
Who I'd like to meet:
A Touch Of Scot & A Lot Of Class!
Personal Quotes
All the most successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.
I came over here [Hollywood] to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative.
I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.
[speaking in 1969] When I was under contract to MGM, with people like poor Robert Taylor and so many others, the cinema's job was solely entertainment. It filled a public need then. Now the cinema serves so many other purposes; it functions as psychiatrist, politician, message-maker, money maker and, incidentally, entertainer. But it's no good regretting that things are different. Times have to change.
When You're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. You have higher standards of what's really good; you're fearful that you wont live up to what's expected of you
[On John Wayne]He's a warm, kind-hearted, loving, generous, intellectual genius.
[On Alan Ladd] He was awfully good in putting across what he had, in looks and in manner; he had something very attractive -- a definite film personality which he had worked very hard to perfect.
I was mad about ballet, but I grew too tall, and when I eventually realized I'd never become the second Margot Fonteyn, I auditioned for a play instead and got the part.
It had to have rocks in the distance, so the water could strike the boulders and shoot upward -- all very symbolic. The scene turned out to be deeply affecting on film, but, God, it was no fun to shoot. We had to time it for the waves, so that at just the right moment a big one would come up and wash over us. Most of the waves came up only to our feet, but we needed one that would come up all the way. We were like surfers, waiting for the perfect waves. Between each take, we had to do a total cleanup. When it was all over, we had four tons of grit in our mouths--and other places. -- DK, referring to her famous romantic beach scene with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity"
I don't think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit. - - DK, referring to her role in "From Here to Eternity" Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely different way, an awful lot that perhaps I'd never have the courage to lay bare, to open up. He just knows how to get you to do it, to bring out some inner quality
For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
[on Elia Kazan] As you know, people will give their right arm, literally, and most of their blood to work with him. He's got a kind of incredible instinct with people. He's so in sympathy with all the fears and frights of actors, through having done it himself. And he's got a personal magic that gets within your very being
I'd rather drop dead in my tracks one day than end up in a wheelchair in some nursing home watching interminable replays of The King and I
Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself. ~Norman Wesley Brooks~
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