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Deborah Kerr: Hollywoods
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After leaving Hollywood in 1968, Deborah Kerr appeared on the big screen only once more, in The Assam Garden (1985). Her TV appearances included an Emmy-nominated role in A Woman of Substance, a 1983 miniseries.
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Deborah Kerr provided the cinema with memorable studies in English gentility. Blessed with a natural beauty that faded little over the years, she was a star before she was 21, quickly snapped up by Hollywood, where for a couple of decades she specialised in ladylike roles.
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With a string of performances like these, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood beckoned the graceful blonde star, and Kerr was soon co- starring opposite Clark Gable in the enjoyable satire of advertising The Hucksters (1947). In many ways, she filled the void Irene Dunne would soon create by leaving films. Gracious, ladylike and smart, Kerr would in fact recreate two Dunne roles: the proper Englishwoman who becomes governess to a potentate's brood in the musicalized version of Anna and the King of Siam, The King and I (1956), with her singing dubbed by Marni Nixon, and the heroine prevented from making a crucial rendezvous with her lover in An Affair to Remember (1957), based on Dunne's Love Affair. The actress' regal quality suited her for period adventures including Quo Vadis? (1951) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), and she ... ventured into comedy in Dream Wife (1953) and The Grass Is Greener (1961).
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Kerr left Hollywood at the peak of her career, a six-time Oscar nominee celebrated for her reserve, her grace and her refinement. In one of her best early films, Black Narcissus, she played a repressed nun; elsewhere in the 1940s, she was cast as fragile governesses, loyal wives, and decorous beauties in such costume epics as The Prisoner of Zenda and Quo Vadis. She'd come to Hollywood to act, but lamented that all producers seemed to want her to do was be, as she put it, "high-minded, long-suffering, white-gloved and decorative."
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From then on, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress,[9][10]. She portrayed a nun (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison), a mama's girl (Separate Tables), and a governess (The Chalk Garden), but she ... portrayed an earthy Australian sheep-herder's wife (The Sundowners) and lustful and beautiful screen enchantresses (Beloved Infidel, Bonjour tristesse). She also starred in comedies (The Grass is Greener).
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In a varied screen career that spanned 45 years Kerr established herself as one of the last great stars of Hollywood’s golden era. She was nominated for an Oscar six times, although she never won.
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