Editing Deborah Kerr (section)

===Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer===
[[File:Betta St. John-Deborah Kerr in Dream Wife.jpg|thumb|Kerr with [[Betta St. John]] (left) in ''[[Dream Wife]]'' (1953)]]
Kerr's first film for MGM in Hollywood was a mature satire of the burgeoning advertising industry, ''[[The Hucksters]]'' (1947) with [[Clark Gable]] and [[Ava Gardner]]. She and [[Walter Pidgeon]] were cast in ''[[If Winter Comes]]'' (1947). She received the first of her [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nominations for ''[[Edward, My Son]]'' (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring [[Spencer Tracy]].<ref name="McLellan 2007 Deborah Kerr">{{cite web | last=McLellan | first=Dennis | title=Deborah Kerr, 86; 'Eternity' star | website=Los Angeles Times | date=2007-10-19 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-19-me-kerr19-story.html | access-date=2024-02-16}}</ref>

In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. She had the lead in a comedy ''[[Please Believe Me]]'' (1950).<ref name="WarnerBros 1950 Please Believe Me">{{cite web | title=Please Believe Me | website=WarnerBros.com | date=1950-05-12 | url=https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/please-believe-me | access-date=2024-02-16}}</ref>

Kerr appeared in two huge hits for MGM in a row. ''[[King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)|King Solomon's Mines]]'' (1950) was shot on location in Africa with [[Stewart Granger]] and [[Richard Carlson (actor)|Richard Carlson]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Thomas F Brady |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 July 1949 |title=Deborah Kerr Gets Metro Movie Lead|id={{ProQuest|105803181}} }}</ref> This was immediately followed by her appearance in the religious epic ''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]'' (1951), shot at [[Cinecittà]] in Rome, in which she played the indomitable Lygia, a first-century Christian.

She then played Princess Flavia in a remake of ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1952 film)|The Prisoner of Zenda]]'' (1952) with Granger and Mason. In between Paramount borrowed her to appear in ''[[Thunder in the East (1951 film)|Thunder in the East]]'' (1951) with [[Alan Ladd]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}
 
In 1953, Kerr "showed her theatrical mettle" as Portia in [[Joseph Mankiewicz]]'s ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]''.<ref name="Telegraph"/> She made ''[[Young Bess]]'' (1953) with Granger and [[Jean Simmons]], then appeared alongside [[Cary Grant]] in ''[[Dream Wife]]'' (1953), a flop comedy.