Deborah Kerr

Dedicated to the lovely Deborah Kerr who enchanted everyone with her unfadingly ladylike and lovely behaviour and her vast talent.

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Deborah Kerr  photographed by Horace Roye, c. 1940s

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Ginger Rogers meets Deborah Kerr on the set of The Hucksters (1947)

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Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in The King and I, 1956

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“I never knew it could be like this. Nobody ever kissed me the way you do.”

Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster share one of the silver screen’s most iconic love scenes in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (‘53)

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“Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect, and whistle a happy tune so no one will suspect I’m afraid”

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Marlon Brando & Deborah Kerr on the set of Julius Caesar ~ c. 1953

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The camera is a very fascinating machine. It can have an almost microscopic eye on any artist … You can’t fight it. It’s there. It shows you what you really are. — Deborah Kerr

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“I adore not being me. I’m not very good at being me. That’s why I adore acting so much.”

-Deborah Kerr

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Plaza Theatre, Granville Street, Vancouver, 1946

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Finally finished a small homage to Deborah Kerr in my favorite film of all time, The Innocents (1961) directed by Jack Clayton.

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I went along to Deborah’s portable dressing room and found her making tea for Cary Grant, tall, cheerful and completely at ease. Like a perfect gentleman he bowed himself out - after a touching and hearty embrace of Deborah. “It’s all right, she’s my wife,” he assured me and went in search of tea elsewhere. — A reporter on the set of The Grass is Greener, 1960

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Deborah Kerr at a party, 1960s

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Richard Carlson, Deborah Kerr, and Stewart Granger in King Solomon’s Mine

Film Review by F. Maurice Speed, 1950

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Deborah Kerr photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, c.1947

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