See also: Kerr

Deborah Kerr (born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimer , the September 30th 1921 with Helensburgh, Scotland, the United Kingdom and dead the October 16th 2007 in the Suffolk, the United Kingdom), is a dancer and British actress which, after promising beginnings with the the United Kingdom during the war, became in the Années 1950 one of largest the stars of Hollywood.

Biography

It Marie in 1945 with Anthony Bartley, a soldier with whom it has two girls. The couple divorces in 1959. One year later she marries the scenario writer Peter Viertel.

Regarded as one of the largest actresses hollywodiennes of the Fifties. Named six times at the Oscar of the best actress, Deborah Kerr were one of the more good examples of European artists making career in the United States. Initially dancer, it begins on big screen in the Années 1940, but it is while crossing the Atlantic that it is success. Its roles in Innocent the (1961), God alone knows it (1957), Arrangement (1969), the King and me (1956) and especially As long as there will be men (1953), film in whom she saw a history of love impassioned with Burt Lancaster, brought the international recognition to him.

Also woman of theater, it is named Commandeur of the British Empire (CBE) by the queen Elizabeth II in 1998.

Suffering for several years from the Parkinson's disease, she has died the October 16th 2007 in the Suffolk, in the east of the England.

Nonexhaustive catalog of films

• 1940 : Spy on board ( Contraband ) of Michael Powell
• 1942: the Hatter and his castle ( Hatter' S Castle ) of Lance Comfort
• 1943: Colonel Blimp ( The life and Death off Colonel Blimp ) of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• 1946: Strange adventurous (I see has dark stranger) the , a comedy on Irish nationalism.
• 1947 : the black Narcisse ('' The Black narcissus '') , religious drama in a catholic monastery in the Indies.
• 1947 : Commercial of illusion (The Huckters) of Jack Conway with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner
• 1947: When comes the winter ( If Winter Comes ) from Victor Saville with Walter Pidgeon
• 1949: Edouard my son (Edward my his) of George Cukor with Spencer Tracy
• 1950: Mines of king Solomon (King Salomon' S mines) Compton Bennett with Stewart Granger
• 1950: Please Believe Me of Norman Taurog
• 1951: Quo vadis of Mervyn LeRoy with Robert Taylor
• 1952: the Prisoner of Zenda (The prisoner off Zenda) of Richard Thorpe with Stewart Granger: traditional of cloak and dagger film
• 1952: Thunder on the temple (Thunder in the East ) of Charles Vidor with Alan Ladd
• 1953: the virgin Queen (Young Bess) of Fred Zinnemann with Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger
• 1953: Jules César (Julius Caesar) of Joseph Mankiewicz with Marlon Brando, James Mason and Greer Garson
• 1953: the Woman dreamed ( Dream Wife ) of Sidney Sheldon
• 1953: As long as there will be men (From young stag to eternity) of Fred Zinnemann with Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra and Montgomery Clift, the film which started again the career of Frank Sinatra
• 1954: To live a great love (The End off to affair) of Edward Dymtryck
• 1956: a splendid bastard ( The Proud and Layman ) of George Seaton
• 1956: the King and me of Walter Lang with Yul Brynner
• 1956: And sympathy (Tea and Sympathy) of Vincente Minnelli with John Kerr
• 1957: God alone knows it (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison) of John Huston with Robert Mitchum
• 1957: It and Him (Year to affair to remember) of Leo McCarey with Cary Grant
• 1958: Hello sadness of Otto Preminger with David Niven, Jean Seberg and Mylène Demongeot
• 1958: separate Tables ( Separate tables ) of Delbert Mann with David Niven, Rita Hayworth and Burt Lancaster
• 1958: the Voyage (The Journey) of Anatole Litvak with Yul Brynner
• 1959: I married a French (Count Your Blessings) of Jean Negulesco
• 1959: One morning like the others ( Beloved Infidel ) of Henry King
• 1960: Ailleurs the grass is greener ( The Grass is greneer ) of Stanley Donen with Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons.
• 1960 : Horizons without border ( The Sundowners ) of Fred Zinnemann
• 1961: the naked Blade (The Nacked edge) of Michael Anderson with Gary Cooper
• 1961: Innocent the ( The Innocent ) of Jack Clayton
• 1964: the Night of the iguana (The Night off the Iguana) of John Huston with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner
• 1965: Inseparable the ( Marriage one the Rock'n'rolls ) from Jack Donohue
• 1966: the Mystery of the thirteen '' the Eye of malignant the '' ( Eye off the Devil ), of Jack Lee Thompson
• 1967: Casino Royal of Valley Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath and Robert Parrish with David Niven, Peter Sellers and Orson Welles.
• 1968 : Prudence and the pill (Prudence and the pill) of Fielder Cook with David Niven
• 1969: the Parachutists arrive ( The Gypsy moths ) of John Frankenheimer with Burt Lancaster and Faye Dunaway
• 1969: Arrangement ( The Arrangement ) of Elia Kazan with Kirk Douglas and Faye Dunaway

External bonds

• Cards devoted to Deborah Kerr on Internet Movie Database