Deborah Kerr died late Tuesday. She was 86 years old. The strange thing is that I had the recording of The King and I before I ever saw the movie and did not know until years later that it was not her voice I heard singing the songs, but Marni Nixon's. I guess my second favorite of her films was An Affair to Remember. Hand me some Kleenex, please.
The world loses an actress to remember
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danemodsandy
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Very Sad
I was a big fan of Deborah Kerr's; she was a very good and versatile actress. My favourite movie of hers was An Affair to Remember.
She'll be missed; the screen has almost no one today who has the talent and gentility she displayed in her films.
I was a big fan of Deborah Kerr's; she was a very good and versatile actress. My favourite movie of hers was An Affair to Remember.
She'll be missed; the screen has almost no one today who has the talent and gentility she displayed in her films.
I guess she really has gone from here to eternity.
danemodsandy
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Tom:
"I guess she really has gone from here to eternity."
This is starting to sound like the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show" ;-)
"I guess she really has gone from here to eternity."
This is starting to sound like the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show" ;-)
Joey Bishop
Joey Bishop also passed away today. The last member of the Rat Pack.
Joey Bishop also passed away today. The last member of the Rat Pack.
nurdlinger
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Also Teresa Brewer
three of em...
three of em...
And we can't forget Kerr in 'Tea and Sympathy', in which is plays the housemaster's wife at a boarding school who provides the titular comforts to 17-year old Tom, a 'sensitive' boy (the Hays code was still in effect for this mid-50's film) who liked sewing, cooking and the theater.
While Tom eventually falls for Kerr, his hunky, athletic roommate is Tom's sole defender within his peer group. Hunky roomie is also "coded", as he enjoys being with Tom and has no experience with (or interest in, for that matter) the ladies.
While Tom eventually falls for Kerr, his hunky, athletic roommate is Tom's sole defender within his peer group. Hunky roomie is also "coded", as he enjoys being with Tom and has no experience with (or interest in, for that matter) the ladies.
twinniefan
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How sad
What a sad week, Deborah Kerr I feel was certainly a distinguished and graceful actress I too liked "an affair to remember" and Teresa Brewer, I really liked her song "The ballad of Lover's hill", and the Rat Pack is finally gone forever, hhhmmmm my childhood is certainly starting to disappear at a somewhat alarming rate.
Thanks for the info guys.
Steve.
What a sad week, Deborah Kerr I feel was certainly a distinguished and graceful actress I too liked "an affair to remember" and Teresa Brewer, I really liked her song "The ballad of Lover's hill", and the Rat Pack is finally gone forever, hhhmmmm my childhood is certainly starting to disappear at a somewhat alarming rate.
Thanks for the info guys.
Steve.
danemodsandy
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Actually, The Rat Pack Has Some Members Left
...Lauren Bacall, Angie Dickinson and Shirley MacLaine.
I'd forgotten there were some female members, including those three, as well as Juliet Prowse and Judy Garland. Some count these women as official Rat Pack members, some count them as "mascots". I don't think anyone dared call Bacall a mascot while Rat Pack founding member Humphrey Bogart was alive.
Anyway, there are people who ran with the Pack who are still with us. I shoulda remembered, and a whole bunch of reporters shoulda done a little more homework.
...Lauren Bacall, Angie Dickinson and Shirley MacLaine.
I'd forgotten there were some female members, including those three, as well as Juliet Prowse and Judy Garland. Some count these women as official Rat Pack members, some count them as "mascots". I don't think anyone dared call Bacall a mascot while Rat Pack founding member Humphrey Bogart was alive.
Anyway, there are people who ran with the Pack who are still with us. I shoulda remembered, and a whole bunch of reporters shoulda done a little more homework.
mickeyd
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Tom, I loved her in the "Black Narcissus"
It's not too well known, and it's set in the montains of Tibet where some of the rooms in the Monastery are wide open to the mountain air. Very stirring and transporting film. Try to see it some time; she' s so good in it, a perfect Mother Superior in Anglcan (Episcopalian) order of nasty nuns who vie for the favors of a man.
It's not too well known, and it's set in the montains of Tibet where some of the rooms in the Monastery are wide open to the mountain air. Very stirring and transporting film. Try to see it some time; she' s so good in it, a perfect Mother Superior in Anglcan (Episcopalian) order of nasty nuns who vie for the favors of a man.
nurdlinger
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I heard this news on the radio yesterday. Googling produced several references, one is cited below.
www.latimes.com
Teresa Brewer, 76; 1950s pop singer who transitioned to jazz
Teresa Brewer, a singer who found fame as a novelty vocalist in 1950 with the chart-topping "Music!
www.latimes.com
nurdlinger
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Damn, getting old...
Above posting references Teresa Brewer.
Above posting references Teresa Brewer.
rinso
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Deborah Kerr has always been my favorite actress, even when I was a small child. My father had a crush on her, (approved by mom, of course) and he took me along to every movie she was in, in the 1950's.
Her beauty, grace, acting ability, and screen prescence was unparalleled. Oh, by the way, much of the singing you hear in "The King and I" is actually Kerr's own voice. In fact, the first song, "I Whistle a Happy Tune" is completely sung by Kerr. Marni Nixon helped her with the high notes, and notes that required sustaining and a little more polish. In fact, if you listen closely to "Shall We Dance" you can clearly hear the transfer from Kerr's voice to Nixon's. That was how they managed to make the dubbing so seamless. Kerr would start the song, and Nixon would take over.
There will never be another Deborah Kerr. She was truly, one of a kind.
Her beauty, grace, acting ability, and screen prescence was unparalleled. Oh, by the way, much of the singing you hear in "The King and I" is actually Kerr's own voice. In fact, the first song, "I Whistle a Happy Tune" is completely sung by Kerr. Marni Nixon helped her with the high notes, and notes that required sustaining and a little more polish. In fact, if you listen closely to "Shall We Dance" you can clearly hear the transfer from Kerr's voice to Nixon's. That was how they managed to make the dubbing so seamless. Kerr would start the song, and Nixon would take over.
There will never be another Deborah Kerr. She was truly, one of a kind.
Vintage Movie Actors
She first impressed me as a child in "The Innocents" a truly creepy adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Srew". I always watched her and hunky what's-his-name in "King Solomon's Mines". She was not only truly a class act, but proof of how lame the oscars are. I was saddened when I heard the news, but what a great life and what a great star. They don't make em like that anymore.
She first impressed me as a child in "The Innocents" a truly creepy adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Srew". I always watched her and hunky what's-his-name in "King Solomon's Mines". She was not only truly a class act, but proof of how lame the oscars are. I was saddened when I heard the news, but what a great life and what a great star. They don't make em like that anymore.
