DEBORAH KERR Her Amazing TRUE STORY
Closer US|November 07, 2022
THE ACTRESS DEFIED THE STUDIO SYSTEM AND LANDED THE ROLE THAT MADE HER AN INTERNATIONAL STAR
DEBORAH KERR Her Amazing TRUE STORY

In 1993's hit Sleepless in Seattle, a romance-starved woman played by Meg Ryan weeps nosily while watching Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember. "Those were the days when people knew how to be in love!" she sobs.

That scene helped a lot of people rediscover the beauty and talent of Deborah, whose versatile career spanned 50 years and earned her six Best Actress Oscar nominations. "She relished the challenge of playing complicated women," her daughter Francesca Shrapnel tells Closer.

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