Actress Deborah Kerr died of complications related to Parkinson’s Disease on 16 October 2007. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer on 30 September 1921 in Helensburgh, Scotland, she’ll probably be best remembered for kissing Burt Lancaster on the beach in the film From Here to Eternity (1953). She received an honorary Oscar in 1994, and was nominated for six others; she also won two Golden Globes.
Kerr got her first film contract in 1939, and appeared in more than 50 productions. Her genre roles included: Casino Royale (1967), Eye of the Devil (1966), and The Innocents (1961).
Her first husband, Anthony Bartley, was a decorated British fighter pilot during World War II. They were married from 1945 until their divorce in 1960. She is survived by her second husband, novelist and screenwriter Peter Viertel, whom she married in 1969, her two daughters from her first marriage, Melanie and Francesca, and three grandchildren.