I first saw Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners, and fell in love with her. She was one of the most beautiful, graceful, elegant, talented actresses i have ever seen on the screen. It's my sincere hope that people will continue to discover what a tremendous presence she was, and that she will not be forgotten.
@@susan1073 , I lived in Australia for seven years and met and worked with enough Aussie women to say Kerr neither sounded nor looked like any of them. I found “The Sundowners” totally unconvincing in every way.
Hi @David Allen I've lived all 65 yrs of my life in Australia 🇦🇺 born and bred. The Australian accent is hard to master and given that I stand by my comment. Have a good day.
If I was Stockard Channing, I would probably say to Miss Kerr, " I don't even want this award I'm just ridiculously pleased to get to meet you!!" Well deserved award and lucky girl; got to meet Miss Deborah Kerr!!!!! thanks for posting!!!
I remember watching this as a kid when it first aired. I didn't know who Deborah Kerr was then, but since, have become a huge fan. I read that she was always very nervous initially in front of live audiences and I think that was the reason for the lovely nervous giggle. Hey, she may have been just a tad tipsy as well. We will never know. Thanks for posting this.
Who is the luckiest one in the world ? It’s peter vertel and her daughters. I discovered her only recently during this covid-19 from youtube. Amazing acting skills or she was just natural on big screen. She was such a powerful communicator with her eyes, voice and so at ease with her co-actor...She spoke beautifully too when you listened to her speech in many occasions. Love the older generations who tried to be perfect in every way.!
I will look. Thanks. I still think, judging from the television I saw here, that there wasn't nearly enough attention given the news of her death. I remember being appalled. Thanks again for making me aware of what you've posted.
?? She's not drunk. Or ill. Honestly I think she was marvelous, maybe just a little nervous. She was too much of a lady to show up on the stage drunk, besides. I adore her -3
@@TheTerryE She was diagnosed with parkinsonis disease after the millennium. Then she died aged 86 on 2007. In this clip she's neither ill or drunk as she was only 57yrs old here.
@@garypatterson2055 Deborah Kerr was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1989 and showed the full effects of the disease when she accepted her Honorary Oscar in 1994 but she wrote that she was feeling it as early as 1987. Here I think she's just trying to have fun ...
she is so fun & vivacious. alos so gracious. even calling people a witch she is adorable. Its ironic she gives an award to Stockard. Kerr embraces the roles she is best known for. But stockard always seems a bit ashamed of Grease. which is of course her most widely beloved role.
If you look at some of the obits I posted showing the coverage she received around the world and on some networks in this country you will see she did have a lot more respect than one thought, though she did not make the front page in most papers. Yet at the end of the year, when discussing hundreds of entertainers who died, she was always mentioned in the prime group of 10 or 15. NBC's tribute dissolved thru 3 of her scenes plus dialogue, while most got 1 picture & some were shown in pairs.
She got such a warm reception at this ceremony, yet when she died current Hollywood hardly noticed. That blurb-if you blinked you missed it- on E.T. was disgraceful. But then I find that Hollywood these days is hellbent on being flushed down the toilet.
And I noticed that almost every leading man who co-acting with her looked they are madly in love with her and be protective of her off the screen. A lovely lady that turn every man and lesbian crazy about her! Haha
@dannybex Thanks for your comments, but, having looked at the Wikipedia page, which has a picture of her in a stage play, looking prim and proper, looks pretty good to me and not as if she were 60. Re "deterioration" at the Oscars, it was not 6 years later but 15 years later. Although she was halting at moments and wasn't as lively as when she was younger it was more due to nerves than anything else. Once she got going she was poised and in full control.
I don't think she is affected by Parkinson's or is drunk. I think Miss Kerr - who was a very shy person - would have found this presentation an ordeal - to start with, anyway. PS She was far too professional a person to get drunk knowing she had to present an award.
@kerrloy She definitely doesn't seem ill. Maybe a little drunk, but not ill. Sad that she had deteriorated so badly within just six years when she received the Oscar in 1994.
@kerrloy If she was only 57 in this clip, she looks okay, because it's so blurred. The picture of her on her wikipedia page, taken when she was just 52, well...take a look at it yourself...she looks like she's at least 60.
Nonetheless highly rated at the time, attended by many of Hollywood's glitterati and she was the recipient of a terrific introduction and garnered a warm, long ovation.
@@kerrloy The "People's Choice Awards" were never "highly rated". It was always a two-bit award show which ranked right down with the Cable ACE Awards.
@@rah62 I'm so sorry you don't share many of our reverent feelings for Deborah Kerr, who holds the record for most nominations for Best Actress (6), never having won a competitive Oscar (though she did finally get a career Oscar, at which the standing ovation was over a minute, the longest of a very highly rated awards show).
@@kerrloy Did I mention anything about my feelings about Ms. Kerr? No. You clearly misinterpreted my comments. Maybe deliberately. My feelings were directed solely towards the People's Choice Awards. A star of her former magnitude had no place on that two-bit award show.
The Queen never recognized her. Probably the wrong politics. Dame Vera Lynn was recognized. How come? From what my boss said, Lynn accepted plundered gifts from soldiers. Pathetic. My boss was in Burma at the same time as Sir Captain Tom.
Actually in the New Years List of 1998, the Queen FINALLY recognized Deborah with a CBE, normally a very high honour, but a number of us had campaigned for her to be made a Dame a few months earlier, with letters to the Ceremonial Secretariat. I led the campaign and enlisted Hollywood major screenwriters, such as Daniel Taradash (From Here to Eternity), John Gay (Separate Tables), Ernest Lehman (The King and I) and Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy), plus Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H), who had not worked with her but admired her. Others, too, contacted them and they told me they appreciated being notified that she had never at all been honored during her long career. Normally, they don't honour people after their career was over, and she was now 76 and ailing, but I guess they made an exception, though it was CBE, a step below, and it rankles me to this day. I spoke with Deborah shortly after and she laughed when I said we wanted Dame, because "There's Nothing Like a Dame." I later met with Tom Clarke, the Minister for Film and later wrote to his replacement Janet Anderson, both of whom said they would try, but... I even wrote to many knights and dames and heard personally from Judi Dench and Sean Connery, indicating they'd write letters, but all to no avail. So, bottom line: She should have been made a Dame, but she was awarded a CBE at last, so the Queen did not totally ignore her as you indicated.
