Leading Lady continued...   Kerr returned to the screen in 1963 for the film adaptation of Enid Bagnold's play The Chalk Garden. The story of a governess who is hired to watch over a disturbed young girl remains a favorite of Kerr fans today. It is a literate, colorful and highly entertaining film. With Hayley Mills in The Chalk Garden   Kerr worked steadily throughout the remainder of the 1960's but her roles became secondary in most films (usually cast as the wife) and, with the exception of Night of the Iguana, they were not as memorable as her previous films. After the ill received The Arrangement in 1969, she announced that she would be retiring from the screen. In 1971, she returned to the stage, starring in The Day After The Fair, which was based on the Thomas Hardy short story "On The Western Circuit". It ran for nine months in Europe and in September of 1973, the play toured America. Her next stage play was Seascape, an Edward Albee play, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1975. The reviews were not good and the play folded after a month. She did have great success in the plays Longs Day Journey Into Night and Candida in 1977. In 1982, she returned to film work, this time for television, as Nurse Plimsoll in Witness For The Prosecution (1982). Later television work included A Woman Of Substance (1983), Reunion at Fairborough (1985) and Hold The Dream (1986). In 1985, she made a memorable feature film called The Assam Garden in which she portrayed a widow who strikes up a friendship with an Indian neighbor.

Deborah Kerr has the record for the most nominations for the Best Actress Academy Award without ever winning.  She was nominated a total of six times (Edward, My Son, 1949, From Here To Eternity, 1953, The King and I, 1956, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, 1957, Seperate Tables, 1958 and The Sundowners, 1960). In 1994, she was finally given an honorary Oscar as appreciation for her years of exemplerary work in many fine films. Glenn Close presented her with the award and she gave an eloqent speech. She and her husband lived in Klosters, Switzerland, until her illness led them to return to Britain to be near her daughters. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's several years ago. She died October 16, 2007 in Suffolk. New York Times Obituary

Receiving her honorary Oscar in 1994.