Programmed September 2021

Starring Deborah Kerr

Whether playing a repressed nun in the Himalayas or an adulterous army wife engaged in a passionate beachside tussle with Burt Lancaster, the Scottish-born Deborah Kerr—whose one-hundredth birthday we’re celebrating this September—exuded both a refined elegance and an undeniable inner strength and fire. Displaying preternatural poise in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s British classics The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Black Narcissus , Kerr soon captured the attention of Hollywood, where she proved her versatility with her boldly sensual turn in From Here to Eternity , sensitive portrayal of an unfulfilled faculty wife in Vincente Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy , and heartfelt performance in Leo McCarey’s classic romance An Affair to Remember . To each of these roles, she brought an intelligence and equanimity that made her the epitome of dignified grace.