News about Deborah Kerr

BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).

Thank goodness, too, for the Traitors, the BBC's now famous January gameshow delight, helmed by Claudia Winkleman and providing all the escapism one could possibly need to get through this bin fire of a month.

They were two of the world's most popular couples, with enough glamour between them to rival Hollywood stars of the day, from Cary Grant and Paul Newman to Natalie Wood and Deborah Kerr. So when Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, entertained US President John F Kennedy and his First Lady, Jackie, at Buckingham Palace in June 1961, the visit piqued unprecedented curiosity. The visit was part of a couple's trip to Europe in the aftermath of JFK's election and his inauguration as a young president in November 1960. The apprehensions were palpable. It was the start of something amazing for the Queen and Philip, as well as other aspects of royal life: its arrival on the international stage as celebrities, an aspect of royal life now so ingrained that it is impossible to remember.

In a UK tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King And I, Helen George is climbing into Deborah Kerr's ballet pumps to perform Anna Leonowens. The King And I features classics such as Getting To Know You and Hello Young Lovers. Ms George, who rose to fame as glamorous Trixie Franklin in Call The Midwife, will be hired by the King of Siam to educate his numerous wives and children. Kerr appeared in a big screen version opposite Yul Brynner in 1956. Bartlett Sher, Tony award-winning composer Bartlett Sher's debut in 2018, sold out at the London Palladium.

PATRICK MARMION: Well, they've been selling mince pies in M&S for weeks, and the seasonal lights are set to light up on Stratford's High Street. So perhaps we shouldn't be concerned with the pro-arrivalance of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Christmas Carol, starring Adrian Edmondson as Scrooge. Moreover, there are so many Dickens' yuletide yarn lines around the world this year that it's likely that the RSC would order theirs early. Nor is there any doubt that this will be one of the best in Dickensian Victoriana, thanks to Rachel Kavanaugh's sumptuous production of wigs, waistcoats, and wassail.