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Young Jack Buchanan1393 viewsEntertainer and film star Jack Buchanan pictured as a boy in 1900. He is with the Rev John Baird, father of TV inventor John Logie Baird, his childhood friend whom he later backed financially and who lived across the road in West Argyle Street.
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Deborah Kerr and the Queen1385 viewsHelensburgh film star Deborah Kerr curtseys to HM The Queen at the royal premiere of 'Kramer vs Kramer' in London in 1979, watched by Stewart Granger. Neither appeared in the film.
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Deborah Kerr and family1377 viewsHelensburgh-born film and theatre star Deborah Kerr pictured with her first husband, Battle of Britain pilot Squadron Leader Tony Bartley, and their daughters Francesca (left) and Melanie. Image circa 1956.
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Deborah Kerr 19671365 viewsHelensburgh film star Deborah Kerr pictured at London's Heathrow Airport on December 13 1967 before flying to Zurich to spend Christmas at her home in Switzerland.
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Deborah Kerr and Peter Viertel1357 viewsHelensburgh film star Deborah Kerr with her second husband, the German-born, Californian-educated author and screenwriter Peter Viertel, photographed in their home in Klosters, Switzerland, in September 1964 four years after their marriage. She died in England on October 16 2007, and he died 19 days later on November 4 in Marbella, Spain, where they had a second home.
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Master Joe Petersen1354 viewsMaster Joe Petersen, billed as 'The Phenomenal Boy Singer', was in fact Mary O'Rourke, born at 6 Maitland Street, Helensburgh, on July 26 1913, the 12th of 14 children of Hannah O’Rourke and her Irish mason’s labourer husband Joseph, who were married in the town on September 16 1892. As Joe, she rose to become a British and continental recording star from 1933 to 42, and in her later years remained a stage favourite in Scotland until she died of bronchitis in Glasgow on Christmas Eve 1964 at the age of 51. Image copyright Herald and Times, Glasgow.
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Deborah Kerr 19721336 viewsHelensburgh film star Deborah Kerr at 50. She was photographed in a London hotel on August 10 1972 while rehearsing for a new play 'The Day After The Fair', based on a Thomas Hardy short story and written by Frank Harvey. The production went on a short tour of the provinces before opening at London's Lyric Theatre in October.
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Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr1312 viewsA Front of House Lobby Card featuring Burt Lancaster and Helensburgh film star Deborah Kerr in the MGM production of 'The Gypsy Moths'. A 1969 American film, directed by John Frankenheimer, it was based on the novel of the same name by James Drought. It is the story of three barnstorming skydivers and their effect on a midwestern American town. At the time, the sport of skydiving was in its infancy.
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Deborah Kerr CBE1311 viewsA 1970 studio shot of Oscar-winning Helensburgh film and stage star Deborah Kerr CBE, who died in Suffolk on October 16 2007 at the age of 86.
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Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant1308 viewsHelensburgh film star Deborah Kerr with Cary Grant in a scene from 'An Affair To Remember', a 1957 romantic drama directed by Leo McCarey. Two people fall in love on a cruise and agree to meet in six months at the Empire State Building — but will it happen?
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Proud mum Deborah Kerr1300 viewsHelensburgh film star Deborah Kerr is pictured with her daughters, Melanie Jane (3) and baby Francesca. Image circa 1952.
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Buchanan and Astaire1296 viewsIn 1953, the top UK and US song-and-dance men met in The Band Wagon. Helensburgh man Jack Buchanan and Fred Astaire's duet, "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan", and their clever version, with Nanette Fabray, of "Triplets" fame, made this one of MGM's most acclaimed musical films, and the pinnacle of Buchanan's career.
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