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An award-winning actress whose surname was often mispronounced, Deborah Kerr (sounds like "car") was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, on Sept. 30, 1921. Although she trained as a ballerina, Kerr ultimately chose the theater and then went on to star in a series of Hollywood classics across the pond.
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Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born in Scotland on September 30, 1921 to Arthur and Kathleen (nee Smale) Kerr-Trimmer. Kerr, pronounced "car" not "kerr", was educated firstly at boarding school and then at her aunt's (Phyllis Smale) drama school, Hicks-Smale Drama School in Bristol. In 1937 Kerr won a scholarship to Ninette de Valois's Sadler's Wells ballet school, but eventually decided she preferred acting.
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Kerr was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, the daughter of a first world war officer, and educated at Northumberland House, in the Bristol suburb of Clifton. She dabbled in acting during her teens, including radio work for the BBC West Region in Bristol, and in amateur theatricals. She moved to London to study at the Sadler's Wells ballet school, making her debut in Prometheus in 1939. That year too saw her in a small role in Much Ado About Nothing at the Regent's Park open air theatre, and from 1939 to 1940 she worked with the Oxford Repertory. An abortive screen debut as a cigarette girl in Contraband (1940), ended on the editing-room floor. But the directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were soon to remedy that unkind cut.
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Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born on Sept. 30, 1921, in Helensburgh, Scotland. From an early age, she staged dramatic presentations for her family. Her father, Arthur, was a naval architect who died when she was in her midteens.
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Kerr (pronounced CARR) was the only daughter of a civil engineer and architect who died when she was 14. Born in Helensburgh, Scotland, she moved with her parents to England when she was 5, and she started to study dance in the Bristol school of her aunt. Kerr won a scholarship to continue studying ballet in London, and at 17 she made her stage debut as a member of the corps de ballet in "Prometheus."
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Mark Schoifet of Bloomberg news reports that Kerr was born Sept. 30, 1921, in Helensburgh, Scotland, to a Navy captain, Arthur Kerr-Trimmer, and Kathheen Rose. She was trained as a ballet dancer but soon switched to acting, appearing in London's West End and in Europe.
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