Turner Classic Movies Spotlights Six-Time Oscar® Nominee
Deborah Kerr with A Career to Remember
All Month Long in January 1996
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) salutes Hollywood great Deborah Kerr, nominated six times for the industry’s most coveted award, the Oscar®, as TCM presents Deborah Kerr with A Career to Remember, through out January with 16 of her best films. Each Saturday night beginning at 7 p.m. (ET), TCM will present a quadruple bill featuring some of the versatile actress's finest performances.
Highlighting TCM’s Deborah Kerr with A Career to Remember, are three of the films for which she won her six Best Actress Oscar® nominations: EDWARD, MY SON (1950, Jan. 6, 12:45 a.m.), the first film to bring her an Oscar® nomination; SEPARATE TABLES (1958, Jan. 20, 11:10 p.m.), in which she played against type as a mousy, mother-dominated spinster; and THE SUNDOWNERS (1960, Jan. 27, 9 p.m.), which brought her her third Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle. The month-long tribute to Kerr also features three letterboxed favorites—the film version of Kerr's stage hit TEA AND SYMPATHY (1956, Jan. 20, 9 p.m.), the family comedy COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS (1959, Jan. 27, 7 p.m.) and the steamy Tennessee Williams adaptation THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964, Jan. 27, 11:30 p.m.).
Kerr started out as a ballet dancer, making her London debut with the Sadler's Wells Ballet. After switching to acting, she made her British film debut with a supporting role in Major Barbara (1941), then worked her way up to leading roles in such international hits as Black Narcissus (1947), for which she won her first New York Film Critics Award. That film also led to an MGM contract. She made her U.S. movie debut opposite Clark Gable in THE HUCKSTERS (1947, Jan. 6, 8:45 p.m.) but soon found herself typecast as a virtuous British wife and mother. She broke that mold with a daring performance as an adulterous army wife in From Here to Eternity (1953). After leaving MGM in the mid-’50s, she returned to the stage with a smash Broadway run in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, which she would film in 1956. On-screen, she continued to display her versatility in such hits as The King and I (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957) and The Innocents (1961).
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Schedule For Turner Classic Movies
Tribute to Deborah Kerr
Saturday, January 6
7 p.m. VACATION FROM MARRIAGE (1945)—With Robert Donat and Glynis Johns—Oscar® for Best Original Story.
8:45 p.m. THE HUCKSTERS (1947)—With Clark Gable and Ava Gardner.
11 p.m. IF WINTER COMES (1948)—With Angela Lansbury and Walter Pidgeon.
12:45 a.m. EDWARD, MY SON (1949)—With Spencer Tracy—Oscar® nomination for Best Actress.
Saturday, January 13
7 p.m. PLEASE BELIEVE ME (1950)—With Peter Lawford and Robert Walker.
9 p.m. THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1952)—With Stewart Granger and James Mason.
11 p.m. YOUNG BESS (1953)—With Jean Simmons and Charles Laughton.
1 a.m. JULIUS CAESAR (1953)—With Marlon Brando and James Mason.
Saturday, January 20
7 p.m. DREAM WIFE (1953)—With Cary Grant.
9 p.m. TEA AND SYMPATHY (1956—Letterboxed)—With John Kerr and Leif Erickson.
11:10 p.m. SEPARATE TABLES (1958)—With Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth and David Niven—Oscars® for Best Actor (Niven) and Best Supporting Actress (Wendy Hiller); Oscar® nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Kerr), Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Score.
1 a.m. THE JOURNEY (1959)—With Yul Brynner, Jason Robards, Jr. and Ron Howard.
Saturday, January 27
7 p.m. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS (1959—Letterboxed)—With Rossano Brazzi and Maurice Chevalier.
9 p.m. THE SUNDOWNERS (1960)—With Robert Mitchum and Peter Ustinov—Oscar® nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Kerr), Best Supporting Actress (Glynis Johns), Best Director and Best Screenplay.
11:30 p.m. THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964—Letterboxed)—With Richard Burton and Ava Gardner—Oscar® for Best Costumes; Oscar® nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Grayson Hall) and Best Cinematography.
1:45 a.m. EYE OF THE DEVIL (1968)—With David Niven and Sharon Tate.