Raised by her Victorian grandparents, Deborah Kerr went on to represent elegance, refinement, and good taste.
So, what is your favorite Deborah Kerr performance?
I voted for Black Narcissus but my favourite Deborah Kerr movie is probably Seperate Tables. Terrence Rattigan rules
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 13, 2025 12:14 AM |
It IS your favorite Deborah Kerr performance!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 13, 2025 12:17 AM |
OP, you’re really reaching.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 13, 2025 12:37 AM |
The Innocents for me. Jamesian ambiguity and dread. Doll-like children enchanting, charming, and, finally, for Miss Giddens threatening, dark, corrupted. For me it has always been a perfect movie.
Second choice: Hannah Jelkes in Night of the Iguana.
Third choice, which is not in your poll, OP: Tea and Sympathy, which spoke to my lil tender gay heart when I first saw it and knew I was a doomed queen only to discover in my maturity that I was as honorable and sturdy and steadfast as any straight man. (I know, Oh. Mary!)
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 13, 2025 12:46 AM |
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER should be better known. It’s a shockingly intelligent, adult movie for 1955.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 13, 2025 3:28 AM |
You lost the high points, OP, but O have great affection for her sane, lowkey performance in “The Hucksters.” The adline for ittalked about “Introducing Deborah Kerr, Rhymes With Star!”
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 13, 2025 3:32 AM |
Tea And Sympathy.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 13, 2025 3:36 AM |
The Innocents
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 13, 2025 3:40 AM |
The Innocents. It's one of my favorite horror films, and she's fantastic in it. Such a multilayered performance. Black Narcissus and From Here to Eternity are also great.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 13, 2025 3:40 AM |
Correction: In R6 I meant
THE END OF THE AFFAIR as a shockingly adult movie for 1955.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 13, 2025 5:29 AM |
I wish I voted for The Sundowners, because even though I prefer her work in Black Narcissus, she’s wonderful in that film and the performance deserves to have at least one vote. It’s definitely a movie that people should seek out.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 13, 2025 5:43 AM |
Bonjour Tristesse with David Niven and Jean Seberg
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 13, 2025 6:01 AM |