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Deborah Kerr: Roles
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In 1947, Kerr was reunited with Powell and Pressburger for a heady masterwork, Black Narcissus. She played the pivotal role of Sister Clodagh, an insecure nun in charge of a Catholic missionary school (Pinewood stood in - remarkably - for the Himalayas). Jealousy, passion, frustration and death become the order of the day in this timeless work. A blend of repression, gentleness and inner turmoil was to feature in many later, often inferior, films but this remains a benchmark in her career.
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Kerr returned to the London stage in the fall of 1972 in The Day After the Fair and took the play on a tour of the United States in 1973. Since then she has appeared in numerous other plays, anmong them Edward Albee's Seascape, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Shaws's Candida. Kerr made her television debut in the BBC production Three Roads to Rome. Other television appearances have included roles in Witness for the Prosecution, A Woman ofSubstance, and Reunion at Fairborough. The actress has ... graced a few Oscar broadcasts, hosted the Tony Awards in 1972, and narrated several documentaries.
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In 1968, Kerr decided not to work in movies. She disliked the explicit sex and violence portrayed in films of the time. She continued to take some stage and television roles during the 1970s and '80s and worked on a number of television productions including the mini-series A Woman of Substance in 1984 and Hold the Dream in 1986, after which she retired completely. Kerr has ... been the subject of a BBC documentary programme entitled Deborah Kerr: Not Just an English Rose (1986).
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