Deborah Kerr awards: a Cannes Film Festival Tribute in 1984; a BAFTA Special Award in 1991; and an Academy Honorary Award in 1994. In September and October 2010, Josephine Botting of the British Film Institute curated the "Deborah Kerr Season", which included around twenty of her feature films and an exhibition of posters, memorabilia and personal items loaned by her family. Deborah Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress: "Edward, My Son" (1949), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" (1957), "Separate Tables" (1958) and "The Sundowners" (1960). She received
Thunder in the East (1951 film) nonviolence. He also falls in love with a blind woman (Deborah Kerr). The film was based on Alan Moorehead's debut novel "The Rage of the Vulture", published in 1948. Moorehead got the idea for the novel after travelling through India in 1947. The film rights were bought by Charles Vidor who sold them on to Paramount with himself attached as director. Alan Ladd was assigned to star with Robert Fellows to produce. Filming was postponed, however so Ladd could make "Red Mountain". This meant Fellows dropped out and Everett Riskin became producer. "We have a tremendously large cast, fine settings