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Jean Merilyn Simmons OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. [1] [2] One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards. [3]
Jean Simmons. Actress: Guys and Dolls. Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944).
Jean Simmons. Actress: Guys and Dolls. Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944).
Jan 23, 2010 · Jean Simmons, a radiant British actress who as a teenager appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet” and emerged a star whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s in such films as...
Jun 26, 2024 · Jean Simmons, British-born American actress who was known for her cool elegance. She earned Academy Award nominations for her performances in Hamlet (1948) and The Happy Ending (1969). Learn more about Simmons’s life and career, including her other notable films.
Jan 23, 2010 · Jean Simmons, the English actress who made the covers of Time and Life magazines by the time she was 20 and became a major midcentury star alongside strong leading men like Laurence Olivier,...
Jan 24, 2010 · Between those landmarks, Jean Simmons, who died Jan. 22 at 80, traced the career arc of so many actresses whose beauty and brilliance the movies first exploit, then ignore. Born in London...
Jan 23, 2010 · Jean Simmons, who died Friday at age eighty, was in her early twenties when she played a predatory heiress who lures a hunky auto mechanic (Robert Mitchum) to his ruin, in Otto Preminger’s great...
Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.
Jean Simmons. Actress. 31 January 1929 to 22 January 2010. A former child actress, Simmons got an early break playing Estella in David Lean’s Great Expectations (1946).