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British actress Deborah Kerr has died aged 86. In a career spanning 46 years, she made almost 50 films including Prisoner of Zenda and Black Narcissus.
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She began her acting career on the London stage, before making the leap to film. In The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, she played three characters.
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She came to the attention of Hollywood producers as a nun in Black Narcissus and, shortly after the war, signed a £750-a-week contract with US film studio MGM.
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In 1953 she made From Here To Eternity, famous for its torrid beach tussle with Burt Lancaster.
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Kerr's other co-stars included James Mason, with whom she shared the screen in an adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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1957's An Affair To Remember saw the actress team up with Cary Grant. The American Film Institute later ranked it fifth in its list of the 100 most passionate films.
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Musical The King and I was one of six films that saw Kerr receive an Oscar nomination for best actress. However, she never managed to win the award.
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In later years, she devoted more time to theatre work, but occasionally popped up on television. Here she is seen in a 1982 BBC production of Noels Coward's A Song At Twilight.
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Kerr eventually received an Oscar statuette of her own when the Academy awarded her an honorary award in 1994.
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