Editing Deborah Kerr (section)

===''From Here to Eternity'' and Broadway===
[[File:Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity trailer.jpg|thumb|left|Kerr with [[Burt Lancaster]] in the iconic scene of ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'' (1953)]]
Kerr departed from [[typecasting]] with a performance that brought out her sensuality, as Karen Holmes, the embittered American military wife in [[Fred Zinnemann]]'s ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'' (1953), for which she received an Oscar nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]. The [[American Film Institute]] acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which she and [[Burt Lancaster]] romped illicitly and passionately amidst crashing waves on a Hawaiian beach. The organisation ranked it 20th in its [[AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions|list of the 100 most romantic films of all time]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/passions.aspx| title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions| website=American Film Institute| access-date=15 February 2019}}</ref>

Having established herself as a film actress in the meantime, she made her Broadway debut in 1953, appearing in [[Robert Anderson (playwright)|Robert Anderson]]'s ''[[Tea and Sympathy (play)|Tea and Sympathy]]'', for which she received a [[Tony Award]] nomination. Kerr performed the same role in [[Vincente Minnelli]]'s film adaptation [[Tea and Sympathy (film)|released in 1956]]; her stage partner [[John Kerr (actor)|John Kerr]] (no relation) also appeared. In 1955, Kerr won the [[Sarah Siddons Award]] for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. After her Broadway début in 1953, she toured the United States with ''Tea and Sympathy''.<ref name="McLellan 2007 Deborah Kerr"/>