Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr (rhymes with "star", but this doesn't stop people in Britain saying it so it rhymes with the "err" sound in "ferry") was a Scottish-born actress who specialized in playing high-souled ladies of quality and one of Hollywood's favorite redheads from the 1940s through the 1960s. She's best known for From Here to Eternity (where she had [implied] sex on the beach with Burt Lancaster); An Affair to Remember (where she fell in love with Cary Grant); and The King and I. Her first leading role was the triple one of the three women loved by the title character of Michael Powell and Emmeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, but really shot to stardom in Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus, about nuns who struggle with, er, "carnal desires" in a former harem in India. I am not kidding.

Kerr was the queen of Oscar snubs, as she was nominated six times and never won.

She was a precursor to Meryl Streep, as she never gave a bad performance. One of Hollywood's most underrated stars.


 * George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941)
 * Love on the Dole (1941)
 * Penn of Pennsylvania (1942)
 * Hatter's Castle (1942)
 * A Battle for a Bottle (1942)
 * The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
 * Perfect Strangers (1945)
 * I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
 * Black Narcissus (1947)
 * The Hucksters (1947)
 * King Solomon's Mines (1950)
 * Quo Vadis? (1951)
 * The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
 * Young Bess (1953)
 * Julius Caesar (1953)
 * From Here to Eternity (1953)
 * The End of the Affair (1955)
 * The King and I (1956)
 * Tea and Sympathy (1956)
 * Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
 * An Affair to Remember (1957)
 * Separate Tables (1958)
 * Beloved Infidel (1959)
 * The Sundowners (1960)
 * The Innocents (1961)