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Deborah Kerr: The English rose actress being reclaimed by Glasgow
BBC Scotland arts correspondent
Deborah Kerr was billed as Hollywood's English rose and even her stage name was anglicised to be pronounced Carr - to rhyme with star.
But the famous actress was Scottish, born in a maternity home in the west end of Glasgow on 30 September 1921.
Her parents, Captain Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer and his wife Kathleen, spent three years living in Helensburgh with his parents, where it was generally assumed that Deborah was born.
Now, a group of performing arts students from Glasgow's Clyde College have confirmed that she was actually born in Glasgow, 100 years ago today, in a maternity home in what was then St James Terrace.
Today, it's Ruskin Terrace, and residents at number 7, where the home was, were happy to back the students' campaign to have a blue plaque sited outside their door in her honour.
"I know she's always thought of as an English rose but we want to reclaim her as a Scottish thistle,&q
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Deborah Kerr: 10 essential films
How different Deborah Kerr’s career might have been had she not agreed to join MGM as a spare Greer Garson. Had she not spent so long enduring roles unworthy of her unshowy, underestimated talent, she may well have been taken more seriously and, thus, converted one of her six Oscar nominations for best actress.
As it is, she holds the record for Academy overlooks in this category and had to settle for an honorary award in 1994, when she was hailed as “an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance”.
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By signing up to emails you are indicating that you have read and agree to the terms of use and privacy policy.But the stage-trained Scot was also deceptively versatile, whether playing a Ruritanian princess in The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), a guilt-stricken adulteress in The End of the Affair (1955), a prep school coach’s amorous spouse in Tea and Sympathy (1956
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Born Deborah Jane Trimmer in Glasgow, Scotland in 1921, she was the daughter of a soldier who had been gassed in World War I. A shy, insecure child, she found an outlet for expressing her feelings in acting. Her aunt, a radio star, got her some stage work when she was a teenager, and she came to the attention of British film producer Gabriel Pascal, who cast her in his film version of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" (Major Barbara (1941)) and Love on the Dole (1941). She quickly became a star of the British cinema, playing such diverse roles as the three women in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and the nun in Black Narcissus (1947).
In 1947, she "crossed the pond" to Hollywood and came to MGM, where she found success in films like The Hucksters (1947), Edward, My Son (1949) and Quo Vadis (1951). After a while, however, she tired of playing prim-and-proper English ladies, so she made the most of the role of the adulteress who romps on the beach with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953). The film was a success, and Kerr received
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