Deborah Kerr Still Gets Nervous Acting On Stage! | The Dick Cavett Show

Dick Cavett welcomes Deborah Kerr along with Henry Fonda, Sandy Duncan and Alexander Cohen to the show where he asks Deborah Kerr about her show in London and why she still gets nervous when appearing on stage.
Date aired - April 19th 1972 - Deborah Kerr, Henry Fonda, Sandy Duncan and Alexander Cohen
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.

His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.

Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@TheDickCavettShow]

What's your favourite Deborah Kerr movie from the list Dick Cavett read out?

[@johnnybrighton9156]

Not all of the following were great movies, but I thought Deborah Kerr was excellent in them: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I See a Dark Stranger, Black Narcissus, The Hucksters, From Here to Eternity, The End of the Affair, The King and I, Separate Tables, The Sundowners, The Innocents, and Night of the Iguana.

[@emmylou-y4b]

Tea and Sympathy and, of course, The King and I.

[@ianbauer4703]

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, among many others.

[@dennispaulsmith6728]

Heaven knows mr Allison too!

[@Schwumbel]

The Innocents

[@faith2461]

You have no idea how much a adore this lady. Terrific interview-as always. Cavett’s interviews are very sincere. They’re always real conversations and it’s wonderful to see and listen to: awkward pauses and all. I find that terribly refreshing.

[@82barb]

Love her voice ❤️ she was incredible- adore her!

[@sagarsaxena6318]

Deborah Kerr is extremely underrated.

[@josephkearny5874]

wonderful performances in The Innocents, Bonjour Tristesse, the Chalk Garden and The Night of the Iguana in addition to the six roles for which she was a Best Actress nominee!

[@direfranchement]

That's a cliché, but in her case it's actually the truth.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

what a hackneyed comment. I wish you dopes would stop leaving it all over youtube when it's so laughably false

[@bobbyb7979]

She looks terrific here

[@peterd788]

Underrated? She was one of the most iconic actresses of her generation.

[@julieet52]

Loved Deborah Kerr. Such an amazingly talented and beautiful actress. 💕

[@ianbauer4703]

Ms Kerr is one of my favorite actors of all time; amazing and very classy woman who is greatly missed.

[@Alexandra-bk5pi]

The fact that’s it’s so hard finding any footage from Deborah makes me appreciate this video even more. Thank you !!

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Lots of footage around, and more than one terrific one on the making of 'The Innocents' film. Most of her films are all available either on DVD or Bluray. She didn't like interviews though.

[@linak7155]

A man who is willing to work in a lumber yard so he'd be able to buy an engagement ring 💍 for his future bride is okey in my book. Cavett married a year after I was born on June of '64' and is still kicking. I always liked his demeanor and soft spoken voice. 🤩🥳🤗

[@mctasty6094]

She is a absolute Star.

[@indiamedia147]

Please post more of Deborah Kerr!!!

[@michaeljames4904]

Countless directors and costars had quite the obsession for her, over the years, and seeing just how honest and straightforward she seems that fact speaks rather highly of the gents concerned.

[@jadezee6316]

countless? lol.....name a few of each and reference them....

[@brazenlilhussy5975]

@@jadezee6316 Go look for it yourself if you're that interested..this is the KZbin comment section jungle buddy, no rules round here! I've just seen this lady for the first time..a beautiful, and if what I've read is to be believed, a fantastic actor also.

[@paulbacchus1015]

So great to see this show back on You Tube, it is a fine show, after a hard day's work I sit and unwind to this show and the excellent guests.

[@Bailey2006a]

One word: CLASS. My personal favorite Kerr movie:.Black Narcissus.

[@SandySaunders9142]

How fabulous is this! Thank you for uploading! Massive DK fan here!

[@2seconds992]

She looks fantastic here, i think (not the outfit 😒)

[@SM-gl8yo]

Poor Dick. All he could get was Henry Fonda and Deborah Kerr as guests--LOL. Unbelievable. Thank you for the upload.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

A Excellent actor does get nervous that is healthy

[@user2144]

She would have been 100 years old in 2021.

[@johnaspinall5457]

Please show more ROBERT SHAW interviews.

[@barbaraprice2550]

Superb, beautiful actress and wonderful voice.

[@SweetDreams706]

Classy people….something you don’t see much of nowadays IMO.

[@jadezee6316]

it is very common for stage performers and actors to get nervous before going on stage...Laurence Olivier was notorious for it....Monroe was terrified to get in front of a camera....Phil Silvers suffered panic attacks and occasionally couldnt get on stage...the list is endless....and it is very easy to understand why...

[@onirannam]

Alexander Cohen must have been tripping. On Broadway, West Side Story (1957) and Bye Bye Birdie (1960) were never in competition at the same time for a Tony Award. Guess everyone was too polite to correct him.

[@jimtruscott5670]

Deborah Kerr is so beautiful and projects peerless class . Just stunning.

[@arthurmaestrini4350]

Gorgeous outfit of Mrs. Kerr 😍

[@Kimllg88]

elegant!

[@husseinm.4723]

A shame she never got an Oscar.. what did the Academy have against her?

[@piustwelfth]

I believe she was awarded an Oscar for her career work.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

she won an honorary Oscar in '94

[@percyweasley9301]

Good interview 😊

[@arthursteven5601]

Miss kerr born in glasgow scotland

[@Thesavageeye]

I just wish I could’ve met this woman…. So I could say….. HOW I LOVE HER‼️😻 WONDERFUL MS KERR⭐️✨⭐️✨ My favorite Movie: The Innocents… 👻 She was magical ❣️

[@slc2466]

Regarding "West Side Story" and the Tonys, it was actually "The Music Man" that bested WSS for Best Musical at the 12th annual Tony Awards.

[@surfrescue3232]

My dad always corrected me that her name was pronounced car.. not Kerr … but in fact it is actually Kerr rhyming with “her”. American casting agents couldn’t understand the Scottish pronunciation.

[@michaelcullen5308]

Although born in Scotland, she was educated in England at a time when actors were expected to speak RP. So they wouldn't have ever heard the "Scottish" pronunciation. And in this interview she clearly says "car".

[@surfrescue3232]

@@michaelcullen5308 but isn't she saying Car in the interview because that's how she was "marketed"? I like Car better. Also what is RP? Didn't she have a very Scottish accent early on? Just curious about all of this thanks to my dad. I only learned what I said above through an American doco so don't know how accurate.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

I think it's pronounced the way she herself pronounces it, which you can hear quite clearly in this clip is "carr"

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@surfrescue3232 RP = received pronunciation

[@nkt1]

Interesting. I’m Scottish; I have cousins whose surname is Kerr, and they pronounce it as it appears, rhyming with the ‘terr’ in terrace.

[@apolinary29]

from here to eternity and separate tables

[@golfingmags5]

Who was the other lady who never opened her mouth?

[@SandySaunders9142]

Cavette seems a but nervous in the beginning, at least!

[@jochenstossberg5427]

She had to be charming didn't she? She was brilliant, and her slightly nervy quality mixed with the calm exterior was what made her so great. I don't think she liked being interviewed though. Around this time however, when she toured with play she spoke of, she was just staring to show signs of being unwell. Very sad.

[@MartinMcMartin]

All that brown and orange.

[@johnminehan1148]

Rather good breath control for a comedian . . . . She was a tall lady, taller than the 5'7" she was credited as . . . . She was not too comfortable, but seemed to be a nice lady.

[@MiguelGonzalez-yl5vf]

Is this the original gender assignment 🤔 maybe who knows but I guess it takes awhile for us to catch on lol

[@gerardmackay8909]

An incredibly stilted interview with painful silences Excruciating

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Yes it is, I agree. She was very nervous I thought, and as I mentioned above, around this time she was just starting to become 'forgetful.' So she was possibly tense because of it. When she toured with the play she mentioned, which I saw, the cast was very concerned about her, because it appeared that she couldn't remember her lines and as the season went on it got worse. They were surprised that such a distinguished actress would. Of course nobody knew what lay ahead. Very sad. She was great though.

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@jochenstossberg5427 I knew she had Parkinson’s late in life but I had never heard cognitive decline had set in this early (she was still working well into the 1980s and even won an Emmy for her work in ‘A Woman of Substance, although of course there’s no pressure to remember lines in TV work). Anyway she was enchanting and one of those rare stars totally without ego. I read Christopher Isherwoods diaries and he and his partner Don absolutely adored her, joining her for a family Christmas in Klosters in the early 70s)

[@ricardovelasco3976]

I always adored her.

[@123abcdef3]

Absolutely love her! One of my favorite actresses from the golden era!

[@Keltster]

Even with the awful looking styles of the early 70s DEBORAH KERR manages to look like a million bucks in an elegant black velvet pantsuit.

[@dknippify]

So true! She looks fantastic - very classy.

[@surfrescue3232]

Do you think she’s as elegant as cardi -b though ?

[@Dory8]

@@surfrescue3232 Wag!

[@rwc20071]

Black Narcissus is a 10/10

[@lynngregory393]

So classy, I miss women who conducted themselves like her❤️

[@Wolshanze]

She buried in my local cemetery

[@Jolly56Roger]

I think she is the most attractive women ever,she is lovely.

[@jaykane7655]

Cohen is incorrect - WEST SIDE STORY lost the Tony to THE MUSIC MAN, not BYE BYE BIRDIE

[@chrisspathelf2310]

I'm 44 years old and I may have heard Deborah Kerr's name but I had no idea what she looked like this will happen to the stars of today they will be forgotten which is kinda of sad.

[@keyontedollison8547]

Debroah kerr💖💖💖💖

[@Gannooch]

I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Art Carney or Jackie Gleason? I don’t have Decades.