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Deborah Kerr: Burt Lancaster
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Deborah Kerr was a versitile performer who did not fit the mold of the typical Hollywood actress in the era she came to prominance. Whether as the blunt, aggressive (and damaged) Karen Holmes in From Here to Eternity (1953), or the mousy, repressed Sibyl from Separate Tables (1958), her acting ability impressed upon me the idea she was like the role she portrayed, but these two roles are as radically different as one might get in mid-century Hollywood. Sibyl cannot stand up to her dominating mother who is systemically destroying her identity in Separate Tables, and she seems to be physically smaller than everyone else on the screen. Yet, in From Here to Eternity, she goes toe-to-toe with (the very tall!) Burt Lancaster's leering, conflicted Army sargeant, she's as dangerous and as edgy as he is, ready for violence or any chance for a short, sharp retort.
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Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr star in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I," winner of five Academy Awards, in this undated file photo originally supplied by Twentieth Century Fox. Kerr, who shared one of cinema's most famous kisses with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity," has died in Suffolk, eastern England, her agent said Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007. She was 86.
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Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr share a scene in "The King and I" in March 1957. Kerr, who shared one of cinema's most famous kisses with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity," has died in Suffolk, eastern England, her agent said Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007. She was 86.(AP Photo)
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Very sad news: British actress Deborah Kerr, who shared one of cinema's most famous kisses with Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity,'' has died, her agent said Thursday. She was 86.
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Deborah Kerr, a strikingly versatile actress whose screen persona of a genteel, tea-sipping Englishwoman blossomed into a deeper, more provocative identity when she played a ocean-swept sex scene opposite Burt Lancaster in “From Here to Eternity,” died Tuesday in Suffolk, England. She was 86.
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Deborah Kerr, who memorably smooched on the beach with Burt Lancaster in the 1953 Oscar-winning Best Picture From Here to Eternity, has died after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease. She was 86.
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