Today’s post is all about some of my favorite movies starring another one of my favorite actresses, the lovely and accomplished Deborah Kerr (1921 - 2007):
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957)
Deborah Kerr earned an Academy Award nomination for her fine work as a nun living alone on an island in the Pacific during WWII. A US marine (played by Robert Mitchum) is washed up on shore and soon the two must work together to remain hidden from an impending invasion from the Japanese army. During their time together the nun and the sergeant begin to have deep, tender feelings for one another.
The King And I (1956)
Deborah Kerr earned another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in this grand musical. Kerr portrays a widowed schoolteacher brought to Siam in the early 1860s to teach the children of the King (played to perfection by Yul Brynner - he won the Oscar for this role). Initially, the king and the schoolteacher clash but gradually they learn to respect each other and eventually fall in love.
Separate Tables (1958)
Once again, Deborah Kerr was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar (she deservedly received an Honorary Oscar in 1994) in this touching movie, playing a shy, spinsterish woman, staying at a hotel with her overbearing mother. Kerr develops an acquaintance and kindred friendship with an awkward retired major also staying at the hotel (played by David Niven, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his compelling performance).
Tea And Sympathy (1956)
In this moving drama Deborah Kerr plays the wife of a school housemaster who befriends a young student (played by John Kerr - no relation to her in real life) who is constantly teased and humiliated by the other male students at his school because he is more sensitive and not interested in sports. John begins to question himself and his identity and Deborah tries to whatever she can to help him, no matter what it might take.
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