As the more elder of us would agree, there were some people we grew up with on the silver screen, as it were, who made the world of the cinema more magical and enigmatic than it ever could have been. The golden age of the movies saw not just the greatest scripts ever written, not to mention the best, most quoted lines ("Frankly my dear, I couldn't give a damn...") amongst others but the most alluring faces we could ever wish to conjure up in our own wild imaginations.
Yesterday, we said a tearful farewell to one of our own kind in England - like many other famous future movie stars, like the vacant Bob Hope, we saw Deborah Kerr leave the English shores for a far more glittering career than British films could ever give her, and it was yesterday, we said another farewell to her, but this time, forever.
After reading probably one of the most heartfelt and warming obituaries in The Daily Telegraph yesterday, I felt, (and it is not often I do this...) to print a handful of lines which were written about her and her extraordinary Englishness which appeared in the paper.
To Miss Deborah Kerr - we will miss you....
(Featured in The Daily Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/18/db1804.xml )
"Kerr was the unfadingly ladylike and prototypical English rose whose red-haired, angular beauty and self-possessed femininity distinguished more than 50 films in four decades of cinema.
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She made serenity dramatic; and though her poise might be ruffled at critical moments in scenes of passion (most famously exemplified by her encounter on the beach with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity in 1953), her well-bred airs and social graces made her a model of British womanhood in Hollywood.
Her best-known film was probably The King and I, in which she played a haughty governess opposite Yul Brynner's Siamese monarch; and her principal problem as an accomplished actress was to convince Hollywood of her sensual potential. Although she herself was a more spirited, relaxed and informal person than her image on the screen suggested, producers were reluctant to cast her in passionate roles.
Nevertheless, when they came her way - as they did after From Here to Eternity - her type of refined sensuality proved refreshingly attractive, since it hinted at hidden desires and forbidden feelings, giving her acting an extra edge and interest."
Sit back and enjoy now the original theatre trailer of the film we will remember her for the most, The King And I......
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