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Deborah Kerr: Miss Kerr
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The studio began to use Kerr as decorative contract fodder opposite sturdy leading men and costume became the order of the day in such movies as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Quo Vadis (1951) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). She had the small role of Portia in Julius Caesar, but this movie - the best-ever screen treatment of Shakespeare - is remembered for Marlon Brando and John Gielgud, and not the refined Miss Kerr. The MGM period ended dismally with Young Bess (1953).
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Synopsis: This film adaptation of Edith Bagnold's play stars Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, the secretive new governess of British "problem child" Laurel (Hayley Mills). Both Madrigal and faithful butler Maitland (John Mills) are aware that Laurel's atrocious behavior stems from her belief that herRead More
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A line Miss Kerr delivered in the 1956 movie “Tea and Sympathy” exemplified her seemingly new knowingness. As she’s about to sexually initiate an anguished student, she tells him, “Years from now, when you talk about this — and you will — be kind.”
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It was another picture from this period, though, that made Kerr freshly famous with a whole new generation in the 1990s. In Sleepless in Seattle, Meg Ryan's character has a thing about the 1957 film An Affair to Remember — in which Kerr played a woman who suffers a terrible accident and misses a crucial rendezvous with Cary Grant atop the Empire State Building. When Sleepless became a hit in 1993, An Affair to Remember briefly became the nation's most-rented video — and one of Kerr's high-minded, long-suffering characters once again left audiences awash in tears.
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