Deborah kerr actress death

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She was ladylike, wearing dramatic gowns with an ease both envied and admired.

And she was sexy, pushing the envelope in ways that riveted moviegoers on both sides of the Atlantic.

British actress Deborah Kerr, a Hollywood icon who shared one of cinema's most famous kisses as an army officer's unhappy wife in "From Here to Eternity" and danced with the Siamese monarch in "The King and I," died Tuesday at the age of 86.

Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died in Suffolk, eastern England, according to her agent, Anne Hutton.

Kerr's roles as forceful, sometimes frustrated women expanded the limits of Hollywood's treatment of sex on the screen during the censor-bound 1950s.

For many she will be remembered best for her passionate clinch in the surf with Lancaster in the 1953 wartime drama "From Here to Eternity" - regularly voted as one of the greatest kisses ever captured on film.

Other memorable roles included Anna Leonowens, the widowed governess who falls for the king of Siam in "The King and I."

Kerr's film roles were eclectic, ranging from nuns to a "Bond girl" in the 007 spoof "Casino Royale."

Born in Helensburgh, Scotland in 1921, Kerr trained as a ballet dancer, began her acting career in regional British theaters and entertained the troops during World

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Deborah Kerr, the elegant, red-headed actress best known for her roles in The King and Iand From Here to Eternity, died Tuesday (10/16) of Parkinson's disease in Suffolk, England. She was 86. Kerr was born in Scotland in 1921. A former ballet dancer, she acted on the stage as well but was quickly put before the cameras. She was 20 when she was cast in a supporting part in Major Barbara, opposite Rex Harrisonand multiple roles in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimpas Blimp's (and the directors') ideal woman. Her next role for Powell, a lead part as a Catholic nun in Black Narcissusfive years later, made her a star and got the attention of Hollywood. On contract with MGM, she was often cast as a refined paragon of womanly virtue, appearing as the virtuous Lygia in Quo Vadis?, the headstrong Beth in King Solomon's Mines, and Portia, the noble wife of the equally noble Brutus (James Mason) in Julius Caesar. Kerr went decidedly against that typecasting when she landed the part of the adulterous Karen Holmes, who has an affair with one of her husband's subordinates, played by Burt Lancaster, in 1953's From Here to Eternity. Kerr and Lancaster's lusty beachside romp, one so intense that they seem oblivious to the

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