Deborah Kerr

Elia Kazan has his own opinion on the subject of female talent on stage and screen: "Deborah Kerr is a great lady. Let that stand by itself. She is also a fine actress, a joy to work with, devoted, understanding and gifted with a sense of humor. She is outstandingly fair to her fellow-performers. She is regally handsome. That's enough. If I say any more it might embarrass or swell her head. And I wouldn't want that."
Late in 1971, Deborah slipped quietly in to London to rehearse...

The Davenports had become a guiding force in her life, and she spent most weekends at their country home. However, it was outside John Gliddon's office that she ran into Michael Powell again, and was greeted by: "Hello, Deborah, I want you to star in my next film, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."
Powell had been watching her career with more than fatherly interest. His company, the Archers, in partnership with Emeric Pressburger, held a record of versatility in range of...

Mrs Johnson says that Deborah still seemed very close to her aunt Jane and that Mrs Kerr Trimmer visited her daughter frequently. She did not really care for Deborah living in London with the war on, but her attitude was : "If I'm going to buy it I'll buy it wherever I am." It was at the Union that she took lessons from a Norwegian lady who was happy to coach her to attain a "reasonably proficient" Norwegian accent for her part of Karin, the daughter of a Norwegian skipper in her next...

Garbo often visits her friends in Klosters, where her passion for solitude is understood and respected, and she made one of her rare public appearances when she went to see Deborah Kerr in SEASCAPE in New York -- a great evening for the entire company who knew, but did not let it be known she was there, and for the Viertels, who value her friendship highly. Garbo went backstage after the play to congratulate Deborah: her exquisite bone structure was unmistakable, despite a fur hood which...

An enormous Pyreneas Mountain dog of extraordinary beauty, GUAPA, which means just that in Spanish - the land all around St Jean is sheep country, and one day when the family were at lunch, GUAPA, with tremendous pride, herded a huge sheep into the living-room, and stood grinning from ear to ear, waiting for praise for what she had done.
"Poor GUAPA was only doing her own thing" so it was said by Deborah, and she added, she couldn't understand why we were not delighted.