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Deborah Kerr Foundation for the Performing Arts
"The First Lady of Hollywood."
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Dedicated to the work of Deborah Kerr
and all the people, actors and technicians - producers,
directors - who helped Deborah make those wonderful films
we all loved to watch over and over again and again - and
identified with all these years. . . .
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Anthony Bartley died in Cork, Ireland on Friday, April 6th,2001 at thew age of 82.
He was the first husband of actress Deborah Kerr and the father of her two daughters, Melanie and Francesca. They divorced in 1959 and Mr. Bartley remarried in 1965 to Victoria Mann and had two more children, both girls.
Miss Kerr remarried in 1960 to novelist and screenwriter Peter Viertel in Klosters, Switzerland, and they raised Peter's daughter - from another marriage where the mother died in a fire - Christine.
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AT A GLANCE
Date of Birth: September 30th, 1921
Education:
Family History: Wanted to be a Ballerina but turned to acting
with great success - "FIRST LADY OF HOLLYWOOD"
First Professional Role: Jenny Hill in "Major Barbara" 1940
Astrological Sign: LIBRA
A CULTURED ACTRESS RENOWNED FOR HER ELEGANCE AND DIGNITY.
Today she is content and happy in her retirement and her
devotion to family and theatrical friends of those by-gone
days. The eminent position and stardom that she has earned - in
her long career - are not laurels that she rests upon; they are
stepping-off points for endeavors long conquered; and now, so
many years later, still beautiful than ever, wearing glamour
like a mantle.
SHE MAY HAVE STARS IN HER EYES, BUT DEBORAH WILL ALWAYS HAVE HER
FEET ON THE GROUND.
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"Across the years we will walk with Deborah Kerr in deep green
forests, on shores of sand, and when our time on earth is
through, in heaven, too, she will have our hand." -- *[dkfrs]*
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CINEMACTRESS Biography:
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CARTED AWAY. (front page of the N.Y.Daily News - Nov. 16th,1967
Actress Deborah Kerr waves and Liz Taylor smiles as their cart passes one carrying their husbands, Richard Burton and Peter Viertel, at Kennedy Airport on way to plane. Liz and Dick, who arrived from Rome last week, flew to Coast to see her parents in Beverly Hills, The Burtons hope to return here for Thanksgiving.
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. . . Deborah Kerr & Bob Mitchum will re-team again if Dimitri de
Grunwald has his way. He's personally nudging both of 'em to share top billing in his "The Tower" pic . . .
. . . Deborah Kerr and Peter Viertel in town and house-guesting with the Irving Lazars. Miss Kerr and Marcello Mastroianni want to film "Tchin-Tchin" . . .
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NATIONAL ENQUIRER: November 5th, 1967
LONDON - Deborah Kerr and her spouse, Peter Viertel, had a sizzling hassle at a posh party when Peter blew his top because Deborah had been dancing cheek to cheek with Michael Caine for most of half an hour.
Peter struggled to control his temper as he ambled over to Deborah and Michael. In soft but firm tones he informed Mr. Caine that he was cutting in. When Michael refused to let him, Viertel's smoldering temper burst into a blaze of fury.
Viertel told Caine to take his hands off Deborah before he got flattened. Michael droped Kerr instantly and vanished. Viertel's rage subsided and he started to take his wife in his arms. But Deborah shoved him away and blistered his ears, telling him she was fed up with being subjected to his petty jealousy.
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The Film and Television Daily - Tues., July 16th,1968
Deborah Kerr to MGM in Hollywood from Europe to begin wardrobe fitting before joining director John Frankenheimer and co-stars Burt Lancaster, John Phillip Law, and Gene Hackman in Kansas for filming of "THE GYPSY MOTHS."
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Monday, August 5th, 1968:
Edward Lewis, executive producer of "THE GYPSY MOTHS," has arrived in Witchita, Kansas for meetings with director JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, who is currently filming the MGM production.
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Thursday, August 22nd, 1968:
Deborah Kerr returned to Hollywood after a week of rehearsals and conferences at the Witchita location of MGM's "THE GYPSY MOTHS," in which she stars with Burt Lancaster.
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GABRIEL PASCAL, DIES, AFTER LONG ILLNESS
British film producer and director dies at Roosevelt Hospital Tuesday, July 3rd, 1954, after a long illness.
After successfully producing "PYGMALION" in 1938, George Bernard Shaw announced that Pascal was the only person he would intrust with the filming of his plays.
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THE PILL TAKES OFF IN NEW YORK !
$345,536 FIRST FIVE DAYS "Prudence and the Pill"
SHOWCASE OUTGROSSES "Hombre" $305,495
"Fantastic Voyage" $290,577
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