Hollywood Remembers Deborah Kerr
Scottish born Deborah Kerr trained as a dancer in Bristol and won a scholarship to Sadler’s Wells ballet school. She made her British film debut in Major Barbara (1941) and In 1947 she played the role of a nun in Black Narcissus, which led her to Hollywood and a role opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters.
Always playing the role of well-bred young ladies, she finally managed to shake off that image when she rolled on the sand with co-star Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953). She won a wider variety of roles thereafter and earned six Oscar nominations over the course of her career.
