Dear Deborah...

I figure you've already seen a sufficient number of From Here To Eternity shots...

...here she's primly enchanting in Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)...and here's Michael Powell, his adoration still palpable, recalling the making of that picture in the first half of his epic autobiography...

I remember standing at the lattice window and watching Deborah walk away up the street to Belgrave Square and noticing how straight her back was and how high she held her head.

Ten days later we started making the film. It was an unforgettable experience for everybody. It is difficult for me to explain what it feels like to be borne along on the wings of inspiration...We all depended upon each other, we all learnt from one another. I was not the only director. There were four directors. I learnt from Anton [Walbrook] what an artist is. I learnt from Roger [Livesey] what a man is. I learnt from Deborah what love is.

...here's Deborah at the end of the belltower struggle in P&P's Black Narcissus (1947), one of the most terrifying scenes ever created...

...and here she's just plain taking the piss—something she wasn't asked to do often—putting on a broad Scottish accent and propositioning David Niven's Bond in 1967's Casino Royale. In the screen cap above, she has just demanded "Doodle me."

Comments

[Steve Macfarlane]

She was elegant and sexy to the end (of this post.)

[Nelson]

Writer Peter Viertel (The African Queen, White Hunter Black Heart), 86, Deborah Kerr's widow, died yesterday in Marbella (Spain).

[canada goose parka]

If you want something you've never had, then you've got to do something you've never Done.

[Canada Goose sale]

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.