Deborah Kerr
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Separate Tables
(1958)The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play.

The Sundowners
(1960)In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move.

The Innocents
(1961)(1961) Classic chiller with Deborah Kerr. Are a governess's charges possessed by spirits?

Black Narcissus
(1947)As a group of nuns attempts to establish a convent in the Himalayas, isolation, extreme weather, and culture clashes conspire to drive them mad.

The King and I
(1956)Featuring Yul Brynner's 1956 Best Actor OSCAR-winning performance and the unforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein score, this beloved classic is based on the real story of English school teacher, Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr), who comes to teach at the royal court in Siam. Though she finds herself at odds with the stubborn monarch (Brynner), over time, Anna and the king begin to fall in love.
I See a Dark Stranger
(1946)
The Journey
(1959)Academy Award winners Deborah Kerr and Yul Brenner star as adversaries who are uncontrollably drawn to each other in this Cold War drama -- The Journey. 1956. At the border between Hungary and Austria, Russian Officer Major Surov (Brenner--The King and I) stops a bus filled with people trying to escape the Hungarian Uprising. He suspects that a rebel leader is on board, but he doesn't know which of the passengers the escaping rebel is. Englishwoman Diana Ashmore (Kerr--The King and I) is trying to help her boyfriend, the dissident (Jason Robards), escape. But while the passengers are held at the border, Ashmore cannot avoid her growing romantic interest in the Russian officer who could destroy the man she is supposed to love.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
(1957)A two-person character study directed by John Huston, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison stars Robert Mitchum as a World War II Marine sergeant and Deborah Kerr as a Roman Catholic nun. Both nun and sergeant are marooned on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. Mitchum does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her.

The End of the Affair
(1955)In wartime London, a writer begins a passionate love affair with a married woman. After he is injured in a bombing, she abruptly ends their tryst.

Eye of the Devil
(1966)Deborah Kerr and David Niven star in this supernatural thriller about a modern vintner who faces human sacrifice to save the villagers who tend his vineyards.
Tea and Sympathy
(1956)Homosexuality was a taboo subject in 1956 Hollywood. So it was a challenge for screenwriter Robert Anderson to adapt his hit Broadway play about a sensitive prepschooler called "sister boy" by his peers, and the lovely housemaster's wife who realizes she must offer more than tea and sympathy to help the boy prove his manhood. The frankness may be muted but the power remains in this stellar film. Under Vincente Minnelli's direction, Deborah Kerr and John Kerr reprise their Broadway roles as older woman and younger man in poignant performances that reveal the compassion and the torment of being human. Their stage costar Leif Erickson joins them in counterpoint as the emotionally clenched housemaster.

An Affair to Remember
(1957)An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during an ocean voyage. To test the depth of their commitment to each other, Grant and Kerr promise that...

The Prisoner of Zenda
(1952)Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr star in this swashbuckling adaptation of Anthony Hope's classic novel The Prisoner of Zenda. An English tourist (Granger) visiting a small Balkan kingdom looks like a twin of that country's crown prince. When the royal heir is poisoned and then kidnapped in a plot to block his coronation, the tourist is enlisted to double as the prince--saving the man and the country.

Quo Vadis
(1951)A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl as Nero intensifies persecution of the new religion.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
(1943)From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military while navigating life outside of it.

Witness for the Prosecution
(1982)Though advised by his doctor not to accept more cases, an ill-tempered barrister decides to defend an American accused of murdering an English woman.

Perfect Strangers
(1945)Robert and Cathy Wilson (Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr), possibly the dullest married couple in England, bid each other a tepid farewell when World War II separates them.

Edward, My Son
(1949)Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr (in an Academy Award®-nominated performance*). When the boy is five, his father (Tracy) commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocketlike career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife's love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream. Based on the play by Robert Morley and Noel Langley. *1949: Best Actress.

If Winter Comes
(1947)On the rebound from a broken heart, a writer (Pidgeon) marries another woman (Lansbury), but secretly longs for his former love (Kerr).

The Grass Is Greener
(1960)A rousing chorus of NoМДеЗl Coward's Stately Homes of England is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ends meet.