I noticed that Deborah Kerr passed away recently at age 86. I thought she was a great actress, and I really enjoyed many of her films.  Anybody else like her or any of her films?

Thinking of your post, I read online an article that listed a dozen of her movies.  Of course there was the movie with the famous kiss, and one of my favorite musicals "The King & I."   And the sappy but totally wonderful "An Affair to Remember."  The article listed:

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- "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943). With three roles, Kerr had a launching pad to stardom in the movie inspired by David Low's cartoons.

- "I See a Dark Stranger" (1946). Kerr's character hates the British so much that she becomes Nazi-recruiting bait until she meets a British intelligence officer (Trevor Howard).

- "Black Narcissus" (1947). Sexual repression and nuns in the Himalayas — arguably Kerr's best.

- "King Solomon's Mines" (1950). MGM's jungle-treasure epic won a best-picture nomination.

- "From Here to Eternity" (1953). Kerr got her second Oscar nomination and with Lancaster, an unforgettable Pacific-surf love scene.

- "The King and I" (1956). If you think of one Kerr role, her Anna may be it.

- "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" (1957). Robert Mitchum stars as a World War II Marine and Kerr as a nun in a comedy-drama that got her nomination No. 4.

- "An Affair to Remember" (1957). If anything, director Leo McCarey's remake of his own 1939 "Love Affair" is a bigger movie now than then.

- "Separate Tables" (1958). Cast as a mother-dominated spinster in a British seaside hotel. Nomination No. 5.

- "The Sundowners" (1960). Kerr and Robert Mitchum are married sheep-drovers trying to make a go of it in the Outback. Her sixth and final nomination.

- "The Innocents" (1961). This adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" is rated infinitely higher than, say, "Ghost" in the annals of ghost movies.

- "The Night of the Iguana" (1964). Ava Gardner is rightfully credited with stealing John Huston's movie of Tennessee Williams' play. But Kerr has some wonderful scenes opposite Richard Burton.

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She had so many great films.  I wasn't aware that she died.  That's what happens when I tune out the world.

I remember the first film I ever saw her in. I was quite young but still remember seeing it ~
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

My best friend and I were great movie fans from a tender age.  I was actually (yes I don't mind telling my age, many on the forum already know) ten years old when KING SOLOMON'S MINE played locally.   We were really into the adventure epics (later I was enthralled with RAIDERS OF THE LOST etal).  Ms. Kerr was so totally a lady.  She looked very much like my sister.  Talk about memory lane!!!  I'm going to call my friend now.  Thanks for the reminder.  YCF JuJu

Thanks for the responses, and for the list, Linda. I am thinking that it took some courage for Kerr to be in a film about sexual repression (Black Narcissus) in 1947!

An Affair to Remember is sappy and wonderful, so it's perfect for some sleep apneacs. She held her own playing across from Cary Grant.

I also remember a drama The Chalk Garden about a girl who was a sort of trouble juvenile delinquent, and Kerr plays the Governess who tries to help her.