Deborah Kerr Dies

With Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember

Sad news, Deborah Kerr has died.

Though, at 86, one would have expected her to have passed on with the knowledge that she has led a full life that likes of which we will probably not see for a while given the current shelf-life of actresses in Hollywood today.

She never gets mentioned with the rest of the Hollywood immortals from yesteryear, but no matter what any critic/film historian might think of her acting ability, there can be no denying the quality of the films she appeared in (to name but a few):

From Here to Eternity [yup, that was her and Burt Lancaster rolling around in the sand in perhaps the most famous cinematic kiss in history)
An Affair to Remember
The King and I [Though she didn’t sing her own songs]
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Julius Caesar [the one with Marlon Brando and James Mason]
Black Narcissus
Tea and Sympathy
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
The Night of the Iguana The Arrangement
The Sundowners
Separate Tables
Colonel Blimp [Not a well-known film, but apparently she was really good in it]

With Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity

Links:

New York Times Obituary