Want to know the best Deborah Kerr movies? How about the worst Deborah Kerr movies? Curious about Deborah Kerr box office grosses or which Deborah Kerr movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Deborah Kerr movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) was a 6-time Oscar® nominated Scottish film, theatre and television actress. Her IMDb page shows 53 acting credits from 1940-1986. This page will rank 38 Deborah Kerr movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television roles and 6 of early British films were not included in the rankings.
Drivel part of the page: After really struggling with our last two movie pages (Top 50 Stars 1950-2010)…we were happy to see Lyle’s request for a Deborah Kerr page. Why you ask? A quick look in our database showed we already had 26 of her movies ready to go. That would leave about 10 movies to research….which is actually a very manageable amount of movies. In other words…..it was going to be easy to do…..and it moved up to the top of the request list. So without any further delay…please check out one of the most underrated actress of all-time….Deborah Kerr.
Deborah Kerr Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Deborah Kerr movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Deborah Kerr movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- Sort Deborah Kerr movies by yearly domestic box office rank or trivia
- Sort Deborah Kerr movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Deborah Kerr movie received.
- Sort Deborah Kerr movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Use the sort and search buttons to make this table very interactive. For example…if you type in “David Niven” in the search box….the 4 Niven/Kerr movies will pop right up.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Deborah Kerr Table
- Thirteen Deborah Kerr movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 34.21% of her movies listed. Quo Vadis (1951) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Deborah Kerr movie grosses $115.00 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 27 of Deborah Kerr’s movies are rated as good movies…or 71.10% of her movies. Black Narcissus (1947) was her highest rated movie while Casino Royale (1966) was her lowest rated movie.
- Eighteen Deborah Kerr movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 47.36% of her movies.
- Eight Deborah Kerr movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 21.05% of her movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 24 Deborah Kerr movies scored higher that average….or 63.15% of her movies. From Here to Eternity (1953) got the the highest UMR Movie Score while Count Your Blessings (1959) got the lowest UMR Movie Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Deborah Kerr
1. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1921.
2. Deborah Kerr holds the record for most Best Actress Oscar® nominations without winning. She was nominated 6 times.
3. Deborah Kerr is one of 4 Scottish actors to receive an acting Oscar® nomination. The other three? Mary Ure, Tom Conti and Sean Connery. Connery is the only one to win one.
4. Deborah Kerr did receive an Honorary Oscar® in 1994. For being “An artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance.”
5. 7 Deborah Kerr movies received a Best Picture Oscar® nomination: 1950’s King Solomon’s Mines, 1951’s Quo Vadis, 1953’s From Here To Eternity, 1953’s Julius Caesar, 1956’s The King and I, 1958’s Separate Tables, & 1960’s The Sundowners.
6. Deborah Kerr was married two times. She had two children and three grandchildren.
7. Deborah Kerr replaced Joan Crawford in 1953’s From Here To Eternity. She replaced Maureen O’Hara in 1956’s The King And I. She really wanted the Katharine Hepburn role in The African Queen….but MGM thought it was similar to her role in King Solomon’s Mines..and would not let her take the role.
8. Deborah Kerr’s An Affair To Remember (1957) was voted the 5th greatest romance of all time by the American Film Institute.
9. Our favorite quote on Deborah Kerr comes from William Wyler….” I still think of Audrey Hepburn as the princess but Deborah Kerr as the queen”.
10. Critical rating scores for the 6 early Deborah Kerr British movies: 1941’s Major Barbara 68.5%, 1941’s Love on the Dole 67.0%, 1942’s The Avengers 58.0%, 1942’s Courageous Mr. Penn 57.5%, 1942’s A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s Castle 61.0% & 1946’s I See A Dark Stranger 64.5%.
10A. Deborah Kerr’s cumulative totals: Adjusted domestic box office: $4.37 billion. Her movies received 71 Oscar® nominations….winning 22 Oscars®.
Check out Deborah Kerr’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
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She’s terrific in so many films!
You speak wisely Mr. Allan…..talented and pretty…a great combo to have.
The King and I, From Here to Eternity, and The Sundowners demonstrated her incredible range as an actress
Hey John….I agree with you 100%. I think The Sundowners is a forgotten classic. I just watched it a year or so ago…. I could not believe that I had not heard much about the movie. The King and I and From Here To Eternity still very entertaining…both have aged gracefully.
She was superb in From Here to Eternity.
I agree Marty K. the beach scene is an all-time classic.
She was a very underrated.She was Robert Mitchum’s favorite leading lady. Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows Mr Allison,Sundowners The King and I are among my favorites. Heck all of her movies I love equally
6 Best Actress Oscar nominations…starred in 7 movies that got a Best Picture Oscar nomination….blockbuster hits….and yet her name hardly gets mentioned when people list great actresses…that is a shame.
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison has always been my favorite.
Hey Peggy ……… I like Heaven Knows too…but I like the Mitchum/Kerr movie The Sundowners even more