http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2007/10/20/remembering-deborah-kerr/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2007/10/20/remembering-deborah-kerr/#comment-112 Foose Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:20:00 +0000 http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2007/10/20/remembering-deborah-kerr/#comment-112 I think her being a class act was what made her effective as Katherine Parr, another class act. My favorite sequence in <i>Young Bess</i>, however, is when the child Elizabeth is repeatedly dragged back to court to meet a new mother, encountering first an off-screen comic German (I think this was just after World War II and there was some anti-German humor going on there) as Anne of Cleves, and then the beautiful Catherine Howard, with Henry fondly and possessively pinching her neck...<br/>There's also the great scene when Henry is dying, with his children grouped dutifully at the foot of the bed, and he calls them all sheep; he calls poor Mary the "crazy sheep" (and admittedly the actress they got had a tinge of mania), and Edward the "lost sheep" and then his unloved Elizabeth steps forward and snarls, "I'm the black sheep!" It was hilarious. I think her being a class act was what made her effective as Katherine Parr, another class act. My favorite sequence in Young Bess, however, is when the child Elizabeth is repeatedly dragged back to court to meet a new mother, encountering first an off-screen comic German (I think this was just after World War II and there was some anti-German humor going on there) as Anne of Cleves, and then the beautiful Catherine Howard, with Henry fondly and possessively pinching her neck…
There’s also the great scene when Henry is dying, with his children grouped dutifully at the foot of the bed, and he calls them all sheep; he calls poor Mary the “crazy sheep” (and admittedly the actress they got had a tinge of mania), and Edward the “lost sheep” and then his unloved Elizabeth steps forward and snarls, “I’m the black sheep!” It was hilarious.

]]> http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2007/10/20/remembering-deborah-kerr/#comment-111 Lara Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:34:00 +0000 http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2007/10/20/remembering-deborah-kerr/#comment-111 Deborah Kerr was such a class act. I adored her. :-( Deborah Kerr was such a class act. I adored her.

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