However, there was one huge problem. They decided to do something different, which is all they could do.. Please let us know if a fact weve published is inaccurate (or even if you just suspect its inaccurate) by reaching out to us at [email protected]. [citation needed]. Her parents encouraged her singing when they discovered that she had. But first, she had to risk it all. After her Broadway dbut in 1953, she toured the United States with Tea and Sympathy. In 1955, Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. Kerrs agent, Allenberg called up Columbia head honcho Harry Cohn to petition Kerr for the role in From Here To Eternity. Deborah Kerrs stage name pays homage to her Scots roots. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. ", Audrey Hepburn - Film Legend, Fashion Icon, Humanitarian Great, Vivien Leigh - "Too British" to play Scarlett O'Hara. After moving south with her parents when she was just a few years old, Kerr was educated in Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare. She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950). 6th January 2022 On 21st October 1921, Arthur Trimmer registered the birth of his daughter Deborah Jane in the Hillhead district of Glasgow. Even though Kerr and Lancaster were getting sand in all the wrong places, something very real happened on that beach. But who was the real Deborah Kerr? Kerr's first film for MGM in Hollywood was a mature satire of the burgeoning advertising industry, The Hucksters (1947) with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. She was born in California as Margaret Nixon McEathron, the daughter of Charles Nixon and Margaret McEathron (nee Wittke). Kerr was born on September 30, 1921, in Hillhead, Glasgow, Scotland, and died on October 16, 2007, in Suffolk, England. Scottish-born actress Deborah Kerr, the graceful star who romped in the surf with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity" and danced with Yul Brynner in "The King and I," has died at age 86. Cohn still couldnt rid himself of the impression of Kerr as a prim and proper ladyor worse stilla nun. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer. This error message is only visible to WordPress admins, Revealed: Trees planted to help achieve net zero are adding to Scotlands carbon emissions, Dreading the hordes? "The camera goes right through the skin. Powell had likely cast Kerr in Black Narcissus to keep her acting in British films and to keep her out of Hollywood. Theres evidence, however, that Kerr was a glutton for punishment. Mother would love it: Star's daughter on why proud Scot Deborah Kerr She originally trained as a ballet dancer. Crawford was Hollywood royalty at the time, so Kerr and Allenberg started counting their losses. Jon Dahl Tomasson laments Blackburns lack of goals despite clinching late draw, Arsenal suffer extra-time loss as Wolfsburg reach Womens Champions League final, Investigation launched after woman stabbed to death in broad daylight, Investors sue Adidas over Kanye West partnership. To her aunt, acting seemed like the best way for her niece to face her fears and overcome them, once and for all. The odds of being that close to an explosion were pretty smallbut not as small as landing her next role.
