by Shannonn Kelly
Born Deborah Jane Kerr Trimmer on September 30, 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland. Suffering since the 90’s from Parkinson’s disease, Kerr died, in Suffolk, England on Tuesday October 16, 2007. Her death was ‘officially’ announced on Thursday October 18, 2007 by her agent. Kerr, nicknamed “The English Rose” was 86.
ReelHeART is saddened to see this passing of this graceful beauty who just last month went back to watch her in one of her more ‘gritty roles’ as a boozy “used” woman in 1953s “From Here To Eternity” co-starring Burt Lancaster (whom she was rumored to be having an affair with), the lucious Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra, for which Kerr was nominated for an Academy Award. The beach scene is aguably one of the most well-known and well acted love scenes in cinema.
Kerr won a Golden Globe for playing “Mrs. Anna” in The King and I (1956) with Yul Brynner. She held the record for the most Oscar nominations for a female with 6 nods, until she was awarded an Honorary Oscar in 1994.
Read more abour Kerr in an article from the San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/19/MNSHSS9VT.DTL
Read more history on Deborah Kerr at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Kerr
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:54 pm
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