Deborah Kerr - Фильмы

Born Дебора Джейн Керр-триммер в Шотландии в 1921, she was the daughter of a soldier who had been gassed in World War I. A shy, insecure child, she found an outlet for expressing her feelings in acting. Her aunt, a radio star, got her some work stage when she was a подросток, and she came to the attention of British film producer Габриэль Паскаль, who cast her in his film of George Bernard shaw's "Майор Барбара" (Major Barbara (1941)) and Love on the Dole (1941). She quickly became a star of the British cinema, playing such diverse roles as the three women in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) и теперь в the Black Narcissus (1947). В 1947 she "crossed the pond" and came to MGM, where she found success in films like The Hucksters (1947), Edward, My Son (1949) and Quo Vadis (1951). After a while, however, she tired of playing prim and proper English ladies, so she made the most of the role of the adulteress ВОЗ шумные игры у on the beach with Burt Lancaster в From Here to Eternity (1953). The film was a success, and Kerr received her second номинации Оскар. She also achieved success on the Broadway stage в "Tea and Sympathy," сиквел her role in the 1956 фильм версия (Tea and Sympathy (1956)). That same year, she played one of her best-remembered экран roles, "госпожа Анна" в The King and I (1956). More success followed in Heaven Knows, MR. Allison (1957), An Affair to Remember (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961) and The Night of the Iguana (1964). Then в 1968 she suddenly quit movies, appalled by the explicit sex and violence of the day. After some stage, TV and work in the 1970s and 1980s and swan song performances in The Assam Garden (1985) and Hold the Dream (1986), she retired from acting altogether. Керр holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for Best Actress without a win (six), but that was made up for in 1994, when she was given an почетный Оскар screen for her достижения.