Deborah Kerr

Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Scotland en 1921, she was the daughter of a soldier who had been gassed dans World war I. A shy, insecure child, she found outlet for expressing her feelings en intérim. Her tante, a star de la radio, got her some stage work when she was a adolescent, and she came to the attention of British film producer Gabriel Pascal, oms cast dans his film de George Bernard Shaw "Major Barbara" (Major Barbara (1941)) and Love on the Dole (1941). She quickly became a star of the British cinema, playing de recherche de divers roles as the three women in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and the maintenant dans Black Narcissus (1947). En 1947 she "crossed the pond" and came to MGM, where she found success in film like The Hucksters (1947), Edward, My Son (1949) et Quo Vadis (1951). After a while, however, she tired of playing prim and proper English dames, de sorte she made the most of the role of the adulteress oms romps on the beach, with de Burt Lancaster dans From Here to Eternity (1953). The film was a success, and Kerr received her second Oscar nomination. She also achieved success on the Broadway stage dans le "Tea and Sympathy," reprising her role in the 1956 film version (Tea and Sympathy (1956)). That same year she played one of her best-remembered screen roles, "Mme Anna" The King and I (1956). More success followed in Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957), À Affair to Remember (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961) and The Night of the Iguana (1964). Then en 1968 she suddenly quit films, appalled by the explicit sex and violence of the day. After some stage and TV work in the 1970s 1980s and and swan song performances dans The Assam Garden (1985) and Hold the Dream (1986), she retired from intérim altogether. Kerr holds the record for the most Academy Award nomination for Best Actress without a win (six), but that was made up for en 1994, when she was given Honoraire à Oscar for her screen achievements.