Film Actors

[Timmy True]

Could someone please explain why Deborah Kerr the film star is not mentioned in the famous Scots sections as she must be the most famous Star, with only Sean Connery being a close 2nd

[dot.hawkes]

I never considered her to be Scorrish and proud of it the way i consider Maureen O'hara to be Irish and proud of it.

[dot.hawkes]

O'hara was cast in The King and I too and but for Rogers and Hammerstein having the final say and rejecting her at the last minute it would have been a whole different story to.

[jno]

she was educated in Bristol so I guess, whatever her birthplace, she wasn't Scottish for very long and as far as I know never used a Scots accent - unlike Maureen O'Hara, as dot says. I hadn't realised that both of these ladies were still alive, though Kerr has Parkinson's disease. Still you'd think Scots themselves would make more of her.

[Gef]

Info here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000039/bio

[cucuhullan]

Maureen O'Hara is still very much alive.
If you are a fan then Google Maureen O'Hara and you will be pleasantly surprised.

[Timmy True]

The reason why you didn't know she was Scots was because she was always known as the ''English Rose'' but if you are Scots and listen close enough you would know.
She probably like a lot of others thought it would be beneficial to change her accent slightly as she was brought up with a good accent living inHelensburgh which is different to a Glasgow accent. I also believe she was a far bigger star than Maureen O'hara. As was mentioned she was also schooled partly in England. But it still don't answer my question.Thank you all anyway.

[cucuhullan]

Miss Kerr played a Nun in "Heaven knows Mr Allison"opposite Robert Mitchum.
This was a charming film made all the more so by her accent.Could it have been a Helensburgh accent.?

[Timmy True]

Yes this was probably true and as a matter of interest she or her father probably have rubbed shoulders with ''John Logie Beard'' who came from the same place at the same time.
Helensburgh in they days would only have been a village and was where some of the rich people would have lived from the Glasgow area,and it's worth noting that some say she was born in Hillhead another rich area of Glasgow in these days so she would have been well groomed.

[Timmy True]

thank you