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In 1950, Kerr took the lead in the romantic comedy Please Believe Me. In it, Kerr fights off the attentions of not one, not two, but three gentleman suitors. This role was a far cry from all the pious parts she’d previously played, and set Kerr’s career on a new path.
According to Powell, his affair with Kerr ended when she made it clear to him that she would accept an offer to go to Hollywood if one were made. [ 12 ] In 1943, aged 21, Kerr made her West End début as Ellie Dunn in a revival of Heartbreak House at the Cambridge Theatre , stealing attention from stalwarts such as Edith Evans and Isabel Jeans .
During the shooting of FHTE Lancaster and Deborah Kerr had an affair off-screen. The delightful Miss Kerr was not the prim and eternally proper woman she usually portrayed on screen. She enjoyed life in a refreshing, open way.
Deborah was, however, delighted when Sleepless in Seattle ’s mention of An Affair to Remember reignited interest in one of her favorite movies. “I’m almost hysterical at the thought of making...
But the hot/cold contradiction is even more potent distilled into a single role: in 1947’s voluptuously sensual Black Narcissus, Kerr’s icy Sister Clodagh is brought to the precipice of madness by her unworkable lust for David Farrar’s rough-hewn hunk of libidinous masculinity (an archetype that occurs surprisingly often opposite Kerr ...
Four years later, in “An Affair to Remember,” she’s a worldly woman who flirts with Cary Grant while pretending that she’s too sophisticated to do anything as obvious as flirting. Her performance...
Co-stars adored her and she was not above having affairs with her leading men. But more of that later. with director (and lover) Michael Powell. In 1943 Deborah made The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and fell into an intimate relationship with its director Michael Powell.
By 1953, movie fans had grown used to seeing Deborah in largely virtuous roles. Playing Karen, an Army wife consumed by an extramarital affair, was a big departure for the actress. "I knew I could be sexy," said Deborah, who dyed her hair blonde and learned an American accent.
She was a sheep drover’s wife in “The Sundowners,” a headmaster’s wife in “Tea and Sympathy,” and the wife of Brutus in “ Julius Caesar.”. She missed an appointment with Cary Grant atop the Empire State Building in “An Affair to Remember.”.
Deborah and Yul made two films together – “The King and I” (1956) and “The Journey” (1959). Yul chose personally Deborah to play the role of Anna Leonowens, after seeing her on Broadway in 1955 in “Tea and Sympathy”.