[12], 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. Likewise Burt Lancaster claimed that he was romantically involved with her during the filming of From Here to Eternity (1953). It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. Appeared in her first film, the 1941. 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. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. . In 1994, Glenn Close presented Kerr with the Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance".[34]. In 1978 she toured the US with the play The Last of Mrs. Cheney. She then went to the Sadler's Wells ballet school and in 1938 made her dbut in the corps de ballet in Prometheus. Neither film was much of a hit. Omissions? [8] After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. In 1953, Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar. Marni Nixon dubbed Kerr's singing voice. The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.[17]. ", Audrey Hepburn - Film Legend, Fashion Icon, Humanitarian Great, Vivien Leigh - "Too British" to play Scarlett O'Hara. She received six Academy Award nominations for best actress and was awarded an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 1993. But she never lost her love, or connection, with Scotland.. 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. 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 has the rare gift", wrote critic Beverley Baxter, "of thinking her lines, not merely remembering them. In 1959 she portrayed writer Sheilah Graham in the film Beloved Infidel. 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. In 1947 she moved to Hollywood where she acted in The Hucksters in 1947, King Solomons Mines in 1950 and Quo Vadis in 1951. Age (2022) Update Soon. Deborah Kerr /debr kr/ (Helensburgh, Scotland, September 30, 1921-Botesdale, Suffolk, October 16, 2007) was a British actress, one of the best-known faces of cinema of Hollywood in the fifties. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. She first appeared on stage as Harlequin in 1937 for 'Harlequin And Columbine'. In 45 films, in as many years, she seldom, if . 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. The film was a big hit in Britain. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. 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. [12] Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". They divorced in 1959. 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). Her last visit to Glasgow was in 1990, when she was a member of the international jury at the European Film Awards. She made her TV screen debut for CBS with Witness for the Prosecution in 1982. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22285687/deborah-kerr. Try again later. After her Broadway dbut in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. British director Michael Powell gave her a role in film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in 1943 in which she appeared thrice. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. According to Powell, his affair with Kerr ended when she made it clear to him that she would accept an offer to go to Hollywood if one were made. 1:07. 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. D Deborah Kerr Media in category "Deborah Kerr" In between Paramount borrowed her to appear in Thunder in the East (1951) with Alan Ladd. She performed in France, Belgium and Holland with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association, or Every Night Something Awful) - The British Army entertainment service. Kerr announced her retirement in 1969, though she continued to make occasional appearances onstage and in feature and TV movies. 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". After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. 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. 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. "My mother used to talk about her a lot and said she was a lovely person. She has appeared in many films from her first appearance in Major Barbara (1941). Oops, we were unable to send the email. Deborah Kerr Photo: 20th Century Fox 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. 0 cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England. She was born in Hillhead on 1921-09-30. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. HELENSBURGH people have long embraced Deborah Kerr as their very own film star, but the time she spent in the town was very short. Neither film was much of a hit. Kerr. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? She also performed with the Oxford Repertory Company. 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 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 was a widow in love with William Holden in The Proud and Profane (1956), directed by George Seaton. Though she never won, in 1994 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement in films. She made The Arrangement (1969) with Elia Kazan, her director from the stage production of Tea and Sympathy. Deborah Kerr's grandsons Joe and Lex Shrapnel with the blue plaque in her honour (Image: Weston Town Council) She died in Suffolk in 2007 aged 86 from Parkinson's Disease and is buried in Surrey . She subsequently performed with the Oxford Repertory Company 1939-40. Deborah Kerr CBE (born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer; 30 September 1921 - 16 October 2007) was a Scottish-born film, theater and television actress. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Deborah Kerr (22285687)? Countless newspaper, magazine and website articles say that the Scottish girl who became the archetypal movie perfect English rose was born in the burgh. [10], Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. Durdham Lodge was owned by Kerr's aunt Phyllis Smale, who ran it as a dance academy in the 1930s . Contribute Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos list. She won a BAFTA Fellowship Award in 1991. 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. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). 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. The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time. Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster were in From Here to Eternity (1953) together.. About. Failed to delete memorial. 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. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Kerr, Deborah. In 1943, aged 21, Kerr made her West End dbut as Ellie Dunn in a revival of Heartbreak House at the Cambridge Theatre, stealing attention from stalwarts such as Edith Evans and Isabel Jeans. Deborah Kerr made her stage debut in Harlequin and Columbine in 1937. Deborah Kerr is British by birth. But despite her illustrious future, her childhood was not a walk in the park. 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. From this point on, Kerr was offered a wider variety of characters with a broader emotional range. Appeared in her first film, the 1941 production of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara." Today, Deborah Kerr lives in . Accidentally she dropped the coin, which slid down between the seats of her carriage. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. But it wasn't long before. 0. She acted in the Oxford Repertory Company from 1939 to 1940. Resend Activation Email. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. Deborah Kerr has died at the age of 86 after a seven-year battle with Parkinson's disease. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. She appeared in the films Julius Caesar and From Here to Eternity in 1953. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. 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". Kerr became known playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. 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. 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 was the superintendent for Brown . She was 86. Deborah Kerr was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland. She won the Golden Globe Award and her third Academy Award nomination for the film The King and I in 1956. In 1959, Miss Kerr and Bartley, who had two daughters, divorced. Her first acting teacher was her aunt, Phyllis Smale, who worked at a drama school in Bristol run by Lally Cuthbert Hicks. "It was impossible to stop because the camera was shooting on Mr Culver and I couldn't break the scene. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. No other actress - not Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day nor Elizabeth Taylor - enjoyed more popular success in the second half of the 1950s than Miss Kerr. For many years she had battled Parkinson's disease with the dignified grace and quiet wit she brought to her many roles. 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. Thanks for your help! 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. Roland was expressing his adoration and I suddenly felt a tremendous stinging sensation, like pins and needles, on my behind! She told a story about it in a letter sent in 1990 from her home in Marbella, Spain. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. When she was 5 the family moved to Bristol, England, where the famously shy girl studied dance at her aunt's academy. Although nominated six times as Best Actress, Kerr never won a competitive Oscar. 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. 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]). Marthas School in Surrey and then at the Northumberland House Boarding School in Clifton, Bristol. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). They divorced in 1959. 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. This is a carousel with slides. 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 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. Thu 18 Oct 2007 19.06 EDT. For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with . A copy of her birth certificate confirmed that her birthplace was Glasgow. . St James Terrace, in W2, has since been renamed Ruskin Terrace. Kerr and Bartley divorced in 1959. 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 . 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. Kerr was educated at the independent Northumberland House School, Henleaze in Bristol, and at Rossholme School, Weston-super-Mare. 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. Kerr was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1998, but was unable to accept the honour in person because of ill health. It was only after replacing Joan Crawford as the sex-starved army wife in From Here to Eternity that Miss Kerr made an American film equal to her British work. 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. 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. 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. Botesdale, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England. Despite these more adventurous roles, the image of Miss Kerr as prude persisted. Her agent Anne Hutton said she died on Tuesday in Suffolk, eastern England. Her final screen appearance was in the TV miniseries Hold the Dream in 1986. 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". In 1955, Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. cemeteries found in Alfold, Waverley Borough, Surrey, England will be saved to your photo volunteer list. . 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. She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. Please reset your password. Returned to the stage in the 1970's in plays including "The Day After The Fair" and "Candida." There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. 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. [20] When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is! On one occasion she gave my mother a 10 tip, and that was a lot of money in those days.. 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). Kerr's first marriage was to Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley RAF on 29 November 1945. and whose actions, in addition to their achievements, embody the Share this memorial using social media sites or email. 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. Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. She appeared in Separate Tables in 1958. An Affair to Remember is a 1957 American romance film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. 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 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]. English While she continued to play prim-and-proper, cultured, or virtuous women, such as the governess Anna in the film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammersteins hit musical The King and I (1956), a nun again in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, and a spirited unmarried artist in Tennessee Williamss Night of the Iguana (1964), she demonstrated her versatility with such passionate portrayals as her romantic role in the tearjerker An Affair to Remember (1957) and her moving performance as an Australian sheepherders wife in The Sundowners. The process of development from a romantic, silly girl to a hard, disillusioned woman in three hours was moving and convincing". "[13] Although the British Army refused to co-operate with the producersand Winston Churchill thought the film would ruin wartime moraleColonel Blimp confounded critics when it proved to be an artistic and commercial success. [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]. Her first appearance on the West End stage was as Ellie Dunn in "Heartbreak House" at the Cambridge Theatre in 1943. The race was officially nonpartisan, but Democrats and their money lined up solidly behind Underly. [8], Near the end of the Second World War, she also toured Holland, France, and Belgium for ENSA as Mrs Manningham in Gaslight (retitled Angel Street), and Britain (with Stewart Granger).[14]. [8], 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. [4] [citation needed]. At the age of sixteen she attended her aunt Phyllis Smales Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol. There he married Col in St Marys Parish Church. In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). 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. After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. She also performed with the Oxford Repertory Company. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. In 1964 she received a fourth BAFTA Award nomination for the film Chalk Garden. 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. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). In 1943 she acted on the London stage in George Bernard Shaws adaptation Heartbreak House. The scene from that film of Kerr and her costar Burt Lancaster making love on the beach as waves crash against them has become a classic Hollywood image and remains one of the steamiest in film history. Her role as a troubled nun in the Powell and Pressburger production of Black Narcissus (1947) brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers. 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. 1. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. Failed to report flower. [22][23][24] She is buried in a family plot at Alfold Cemetery, Alfold, Surrey. Kerr, 63, is the former superintendent of the Brown Deer school district in suburban Milwaukee. She is also one of the female myths of the seventh art. What nationality was Deborah Kerr? excellence and international renown in their chosen professional fields, He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. 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. His father Arthur worked with Sir William Arrols bridge building firm, and Jack took up a post with them as well. Try again later. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in Heartbreak House. 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 became known in Britain playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Please try again later. 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). Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Her final feature film was "The Assam Garden," also in 1985. She acted opposite Robert Mitchum in the film The Sundowners in 1960. 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). 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. There is a problem with your email/password. In The King and I she whistled a happy tune, and the world whistled along. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. The following year she married author Peter Viertel, whose novel White Hunter, Black Heart was a thinly veiled portrait of Huston. Deborah Kerr. She started taking ballet lessons from the age of five and enrolled at the St. Updates? 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. Marni Nixon - the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr and others was unsung herself . Deborah displayed a penchant for dramatics at a very early age when she would stage presentations for her family. This account has been disabled. She also did A Song at Twilight (1982). Weve updated the security on the site. She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). Her zodiac sign is Libra. 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. 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. 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. They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 18 December 1951, who married to the actor John Shrapnel). Peter Viertelm. She made music out of ordinary dialogue. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer on September 30, 1921, in Helensburgh, Scotland, she trained in ballet before moving . Kerr originally trained as a ballet dancer, first appearing on stage at Sadler's Wells in 1938. Her second marriage was to author Peter Viertel on 23 July 1960. Some of Kerr's leading men have stated in their autobiographies that they had an affair or romantic fling with her. House where The King and I star Deborah Kerr first learned to dance goes on sale for 1.85million. 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. 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. There is no independent corroboration of either actor's claims. American British Deborah Kerr/Nationality. 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