Deborah Kerr Biography
Summary
"Deborah Kerr", born "Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer", CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007) was a Scottish stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in "Tea and Sympathy," a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, "The King and I," and she was also the recipient of honorary Academy, BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival awards.
She was nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress but never won. In 1994, however, she was cited by the Motion Picture Academy for a film career that always represented 'Perfection, Discipline and Elegance'. Amongst her most famous films were: "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember", "From Here to Eternity", "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" and "Separate Tables".
Although the Scottish pronunciation of her surname is closer to a phonetic reading of the name (), when she was being promoted as a Hollywood actress it was made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as 'car'. In order to avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer of MGM billed her as 'Kerr rhymes with Star!'
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