RIP: Deborah Kerr~~worked with Grayson Hall

[David]

The great actress Deborah Kerr, who shared a brief scene with Grayson in Night of the Iguana (1964) has passed on at age 86.

Kerr starred in the chilling 1961 ghost story, The Innocents.
Like the Quentin/Beth ghost story on DS, Innocents was based on Henry James' Turn of the Screw.

RIP to a Lady

David

[arashi]

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. I absolutely love The Innocents. CREEPTASTIC movie.

[Julianka7]

I am sorry to hear this too. She was in so many movies I love.

[markyboo]

Deborah Kerr was a magnificent actress - so regal, so classy, so elegant.

I'm sure as soon as she reached heaven, she ran into Yul Brynner.

I hope they'll be waltzing together for all of eternity...

Rest in peace, Deborah Kerr.

[Gothick]

Grayson and Debs had a number of scenes together in Noti.  Miss Fellows is not actually in the scene but I love it when Hannah (Debs' character) is chopping up the fish for dinner and is venting just a wee bit about Miss Fellows and chops the head of the fish off with a big WHACK.  Fabulous moment--and I write that as a vegetarian for the last 26 years.

I also loved Debs in Casino Royale, and she was wonderful opposite Niven again in Eye of the Devil (a hauntingly shot 1966 film that deserves to be more widely known--same themes as The Wicker Man but much more understated and quietly creepy).

She had a flair for memoir as well, as her diaries about the shooting of Noti, published in one of the glossy magazines in 1963, show brilliantly.

G.

[Julia99]

She had a flair for memoir as well, as her diaries about the shooting of Noti, published in one of the glossy magazines in 1963, show brilliantly.

Call me a skeptic but i wonder if her husband, author Peter Viertel who died just on November 4th, didn't have at least an editorial hand in the diaries.