Deborah Kerr

That's good news for "An Education" star Carey Mulligan. At the 1953 Oscars, Audrey Hepburn claimed the best-actress crown over Deborah Kerr (star of "From Here to Eternity," which beat "Roman Holiday" for best picture), Leslie Caron...

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...for about 2 Deborah Kerr in The King and I (1956) Marni Nixon delivered the vocals for Kerr's portrayal of the English governess to the children of the King of Siam (Yul Brynner). Nixon was uncredited, and not for the first time a she...

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...his mother is singer Marni Nixon (who provided the singing voice for numerous well-known actresses, notably Natalie Wood, Deborah Kerr, and Audrey Hepburn), his father was the late Academy Award-winning composer Ernest Gold. He has two...

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...Kerr and Bartley, who had two daughters, divorced. The following year she married author Peter Viertel whose novel "White Hunter, Black Heart" was a thinly-veiled portrait of Huston. No other actress - not Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day or...

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...were in the crowd. Marni Nixon was the singing voice of Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn in the movies and on the soundtracks of "The King and I," "An Affair to Remember," "West Side Story" and "My Fair Lady." And yes, in...

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...a serenity and real comfort in it." And she understands the appeal that playing such an independent female figure would have to such actresses as Deborah Kerr and Audrey Hepburn in the '40s and '50s. "They go beyond sexuality," she says.

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...loser Maggio, Sinatra won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. From Here to Eternity also featured Deborah Kerr, best known for prim and proper roles, as a philandering Army wife. And Audrey Hepburn, previously cast in delightful comedic...

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...to newcomer Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday." In 1986, Ms. Kerr told the Chicago Tribune that she was not disappointed by being overlooked during subsequent Academy Award ceremonies. "Quite the opposite, in fact, as I'm sure I've had...

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