Deborah Kerr Personal Collection: Personal collection of articles, images and assorted items

Posts Tagged ‘50s’

Filmography fanvids: King Solomon’s Mines

By Basilea • Aug 5th, 2010 • Category: Video

I needed a distraction and I needed a happier theme hence the silly results: Safari Deborah.



Radio play: The Women

By Basilea • Jun 12th, 2010 • Category: Audio Files, Downloads, Radio Plays, Theatre

Deborah participated in several radio shows in Hollywood. On December 17th 1950, she took part in Episode 7 of Tallulah Banhead’s weekly show as one of the cast members. She played Mary on this adaptation of the 1936 play “The Women” by Clare Boothe Luce.



Don’t Fire your Husband

By Basilea • Mar 21st, 2010 • Category: Articles, Family Life

Violet shares this remarkable piece where Deborah exposes her thoughts on what marriage should be about and the position of a woman in her house and in her man’s life. A very interesting read to put yourself in context with the time it was written. So many things have changed!



Deborah, Pleasure in Hollywood

By Basilea • Mar 11th, 2010 • Category: Articles, Family Life

Violet shares this lovely piece with us where Deborah talks about being married to Tony and her life in Hollywood. Thank you very much!!!



Six-time nominee in Pacific Palisades

By Basilea • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Articles, Family Life

Deborah opens her Pacific Palisades house to us. Thank you Faith! (And thank you Lisa for helping her out with these )



Deborah and Lucía (1958) – Translation

By Basilea • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Family Life, Interview, Translation

Deborah Kerr – on her third trip to Spain – is spending a few days with her friends Luís Miguel and Lucía Bosé. Being a bullfighting “aficionada” – she describes herself as “Dominguista -, Deborah won’t miss the even in Ventas bullfighting arena where her idol will perform among other bullfighting masters.
English translation of Spanish article from Triunfo magazine (1958).



Lady Pamela – Radio Play

By Basilea • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Audio Files, Downloads, Radio Plays, Theatre

Deborah Kerr stars in the radio play “Lady Pamela”. March 1953.
Deborah en la radio novela “Lady Pamela” de 1953.



I Confess

By Basilea • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Family Life

Deborah tells us what she likes, hates, is afraid of, is proud of and most of all, that she loves ducks. Several times.



Hollywood’s Elegant Redhead

By Basilea • Nov 26th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Family Life, Film & Career

Beautiful “as a wildflower” with a wit as sharp as a thorn, Deborah Kerr has her own ideas, a will – and usually her own way.

A Lisa – Cuckoo4kitties contribution. Thank you! ^^



Deborah’s Different

By Basilea • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Family Life, Film & Career

She has a rare spiritual beauty. But Deborah Kerr prefers to be known as the screen’s most versatile actress, not just t a “face”.

Unknown writter – 1940s



I Could not Dance

By Basilea • Nov 9th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Family Life, Film & Career

Realising that I would never make a good dancer I decided to take a chance on the movies-and luck has been with me ever since. Having spent some uncomfortable months in Africa, while making King Solomon’s Mines, I am now trying to persuade my studio to buy a ballet story for me. Have any of you any suggestions?



Love, Marriage and Me

By Basilea • Nov 9th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Family Life

By Deborah Kerr (as told to Dick Richards) – Picturegoer, Sept. 22nd 1956 If anyone believes that love and marriage have no special significance or lasting influence on a person’s life and is seeking an argument, then I’m hotly in favour of having one! For, without the love and security – spiritual, not material-that has [...]



The Lady Dared

By Basilea • Nov 9th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Family Life

A lady and a cockeyed optimist By Raidie Harris It was nine Thanksgivings ago that I first met Deborah Kerr, and ever since I’ve been thankful for a friendship that has grown deeper with each passing year. It isn’t easy to have a close relationship with a film star. In the first place, “to have [...]