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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Oct 19, 2007 4:00 AM UTC  British actress Deborah Kerr, star of From Here To Eternity and The King And I, seen in this 1954 file photo, has died at the age of 86. British actress Deborah Kerr, star of From Here To Eternity and The King And I, seen in this 1954 file photo, has died at the age of 86.AP by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Oct 19, 2007 4:00 AM UTC We remember movie actors of the 50s as an assembly of damaged brutes (starting with Brando) and buxom babes (mainly Monroe). But that was just part of the cosmology. They had ladies then, actresses who, in their fine features and perfect poise, their manner and manners, suggested that the old aristocracy was not ready to be overthrown. They could play women of nobility or ordinary girls with a sense of breeding. Often they came to Hollywood from English theater and films, but to many American viewers they seemed visitors from a higher realm. Their names still say “class”: Vivien Leigh, Wendy Hiller, Jean Simmons, Claire Bloom. Of course, in a class by herself, Audrey Hepburn. And Deborah Kerr, whose grounded grace illuminated some of the best relics from the 40s and 50s, and who died Tuesday at 86\. How ladylike was Kerr (pronounced “car”)? Three times the New York Film Critics’ Circle named her best actress prize, and two of those awards came for playing nuns, in _Black Narcissus_ in 1947 and _Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison_ a decade later. (The third was as the wife of sheepherder Robert Mitchum in the 1960 _The Sundowners_.) How congenial? In 1956 she was given a Hollywood bauble called the Golden Apple Award as Most Cooperative Actress. Most cooperative and most respected: she was an Academy Award finalist six times in a dozen years, earning Oscar nominations for _Edward, My Son; From Here to Eternity; The King and I; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Separate Tables_ and _The Sundowners_. But Kerr never took home a competitive statuette. In 1994, the Academy voted her a lifetime achievement award, proclaiming her “an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance.” That tribute, like my opening paragraph, betrays a nostalgia for a kinder, gentler moviescape, back when stars spoke love in whispered metaphors and a leading lady knew how to get out of a limo without exposing her crotch. But that notion of refinement was a fiction too. It happened to be the prevailing tone of A-list movies of the 40s that lingered through the 50s. Kerr was not some elevated being who allowed herself to be photographed. She was an actress, convincingly playing these roles. And though her career was never marked by scandal, off-camera she could be as earthy as the next mid-century star. “People always think I’m the epitome of the English gentlewoman,” she told the _Chicago Tribune_ after she retired, “which just goes to show that things are never quite what they seem.” Born in Scotland in 1921, the daughter of an architect who rose to Captain (and was wounded) in World War I, Deborah Jane Kerr Trimmer was a shy child who communicated through family theatricals. She studied dance and won a scholarship to the Sadler’s Wells school, making her London debut in the corps de ballet of _Prometheus_. The first film in which she appeared was the 1941 _Major Barbara_; she played a winsome Salvation Army lass under the tutelage of Hiller, the fresh-faced rage of the day. Kerr’s radiance was both more demure and more alluring; and when pregnancy forced Hiller to drop out of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s war epic _The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp_, Powell cast Kerr as the three women who, over a 40-year span, weave a romantic spell over the lead character. And over the co-director: Powell fell in love with her. During the shoot, on her 21st birthday, Powell proposed marriage. (They never wed.) In 1947, the Powell-Pressburger _Black Narcissus_ brought Kerr to Hollywood’s attention, and she was signed by MGM, where she quickly earned her first Oscar nomination as Spencer Tracy’s alcoholic wife in _Edward, My Son_. You didn’t have to be a talent scout to recognize that Kerr was the perfect package of a quality actress. Her large blue eyes could glare in disapproval or moisten dewily in the surrender to love. Her mouth expressed primness or sensuality, as needed; and in many films it relaxed into the self-depreciating smile of a woman who can’t believe people when they say she’s gorgeous — someone for whom every conquest is a new surprise. Whether her film characters had an unapproachable (and thus enticing) air or bore the unspoiled stamp of the dream girl next door, she stirred romantic interest in her movie men. From the start they’d be considering strategies to thaw her out, measure up, muss her up. And often it’s the men who’d be reformed. Playboy Cary Grant, in the 1957 _An Affair to Remember_, meets chanteuse Kerr on a long cruise and, at nearly the first stop, takes her ashore to meet his aged mother. By the end of the voyage they’ve agreed to test their love by waiting six months before meeting again at the top of the Empire State Building (“the nearest thing to heaven”). The ending, which I’ll just say involves painting and walking, makes this film all-time romantic soaper, and Kerr and Grant the ideal middle-aged lovers. Often in a Kerr movie, love is unspoken, not acted on, as in _Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison_ (again with Mitchum), whose plot sounds like the first line of a joke — did you hear the one about the Marine and the nun, stranded on a Pacific island? There’s the spark of attraction too when she plays the English governess to Yul Brynner’s Siamese monarch in _The King and I_. Shall they dance? Divinely. Consummate their affections? Unthinkable. Another part of Kerr’s chameleonic character was her red hair, a dramatic frame for her pale skin. For her three _Colonel Blimp_ characters she had worn it in different shades and styles, from upswept scarlet to sensible russet. She was a natural for Hollywood in the postwar years, when more movies were made in Technicolor, and red was the fashionable tint for an actress. Yet in her most famous film role — anyway, film scene — she went platinum blond. That was the 1953 _From Here to Eternity_. As it rescued Frank Sinatra’s career from the B-movie commode, the film also showed that Kerr could play something tougher than a lady: a woman. As the company commander’s wife in Pearl Harbor just before the war, she’s a siren this time, a notorious lay on Army barracks from New Jersey to Hawaii. “Her and them sweaters!” one soldier says as she walks toward him. In curly blond hair and a halter dress like the one Monroe wore two years later in _The Seven Year Itch_, Kerr lasers a knowing, weary sensuality. On the beach with a beau, when she removes her skirt to reveal a swimsuit, she could be Monroe’s double; the resemblance is that close. But there’s also a battered bitterness in this Karen Holmes. She may sashay in public, but at home with her philandering husband she spits out her contempt in cigarette puffs. Her hatred for him, and what he did to her, leads Karen into liaisons out of desperation and revenge. She thinks that robust Sgt. Warden (Burt Lancaster) may be the man she searched for in all those other men. In the famous beach scene, as waves crash over them, they lie down and she rolls on top of him, in command. “Nobody ever kissed me the way you do,” she purrs (“kiss” being a metaphor for a closer form of contact). Suddenly he’s proprietary, wondering how many men she has “kissed.” “Can’t you give me a rough estimate?” he asks, and she replies, “Not without an adding machine.” The scene is remembered for the much-imitated smooch at the shoreline, but it’s more mature and complicated than that. _From Here to Eternity_ helped Hollywood approach themes of sexual yearning and remorse in a more mature fashion. The movement could have no finer exemplars than Lancaster, the wily male animal, and Kerr, the lady who revealed, with her subtlety and daring, that things may never be quite what they seem. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6908526/from-her-to-eternity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6908526/from-her-to-eternity/"},"headline":"From Her to Eternity","datePublished":"2007-10-19T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T15:28:09.150Z","description":"We remember movie actors of the 50s as an assembly of damaged brutes (starting with Brando) and buxom babes (mainly Monroe). 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