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Deborah Kerr: Eternity
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In 1947 Kerr moved to Hollywood and in the same year appeared in Black Narcissus and The Adventuress, for which she received Best Actress Award from the New York Film Critics. Kerr seemed destined to be typecast as the typical prim and proper English lady, but she soon shattered that illusion with her performance as the nymphomaniac Karen Holmes in From Here to Eternity (1953). This very successful film brought an Oscar nomination but, alas, no award.
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Miss Kerr made "From Here to Eternity" even though Harry Cohn, chief of Columbia Pictures in that era, had wanted Joan Crawford in the part and had to be persuaded to accept Miss Kerr. She regarded the role as the high point in her climb to stardom in the United States, and it yielded her second Academy Award nomination.
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From Here to Eternity opened in movie theaters while Kerr was appearing on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy, and she later said that that year was the high point in her life. But the whole next decade proved a heady one, with Best Actress Oscar nominations arriving like clockwork.
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A major star during her career, Kerr's nominations were ... for some of the biggest box-office hits of their time. They were: 1949's Edward My Son (with Spencer Tracy), 1953's From Here to Eternity, 1956's The King & I (with Best Actor winner Yul Brynner), 1957's Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (with Robert Mitchum), 1958's Separate Tables and 1960's The Sundowners (again, with Mitchum).
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Ms. Kerr insisted that her acting range was much broader than many critics would allow. She reminded generations of reporters that she had played "everything from nuns to nymphos," the latter referring to her role in "From Here to Eternity" (1953).
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[E]ven while playing an unfaithful wife in from "From Here to Eternity," Kerr is dignified, Basinger said. "She could give you the whole range in one performance, and that made her unique."
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