Deborah Kerr: A Biography

by Michelangelo Capua

Blessed with a natural beauty, Scotland-born actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) provided the cinema with memorable studies of English gentility. A star in British pictures before she was 21 and a Hollywood fixture from 1946 on, she projected a cool reserve and stoic nobility, often hinting at passion and insecurity beneath the surface. Frequently portraying selfless, sympathetic women, she was brilliant in such roles as Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1956). And in a fascinating departure from her normal range, her portrayal of the sexually frustrated Army wife in From Here to Eternity (1953) resulted in the screen's most famous "clinch"--the beach scene with Burt Lancaster. Though she never won an Academy Award despite six nominations, Deborah Kerr received an honorary Oscar in 1994.

Genres: Biography

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2010

Reviews

[Miriam · Rating 4 out of 5]

It sure tells you the life of Deborah Kerr, but it's like it's very compact and only with facts about her, told in quotes by her acquaintances, or how good or bad her movies were, who she slept with etc.

You still et to know a great deal about this beautiful actress, and if you love her, like i do, then it doesn't matter, because you just want to everything about her, and her life is very exciting, but it would be so much better, if it just weren't facts.

But it still is a very good book, that tells you the life and death of one of the most loveliest actress of all time.

[Debi Emerson · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent telling of the life of an amazing lady.