Jean Kent
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress. She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. Kent's first good role in Two Thousand Women (1944), playing a stripper who is interned by the Germans. She was a Pacific Islander in Bees in Paradise (1944) with Arthur Askey and was the ingenue in a Tommy Trinder musical Champagne Charlie (1944). The turning point in her career came when she was given a dramatic part in the Gainsborough melodrama film Fanny by Gaslight (1944). The movie established Kent as Gainsborough's backup to Margaret Lockwood. Kent played another sexually aggressive girl in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) with Calvert and Granger. It was a big hit. Rank borrowed her to support Rex Harrison in The Rake's Progress (1945). Kent continued to have success in films. Her favorite film was musical Trottie True (1949) where she played the lead. Kent's film appearances grew less frequent from the mid 1950s onward. She had support roles in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) and Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and a good part in the horror film The Haunted Strangler (1959). She was in the comedy Please Turn Over (1959) and the thriller Beyond This Place (1959). She was one of several female stars in Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) with George Sanders. Kent was married to Austrian actor Josef Ramart from 1946 until his death in 1989, aged 70. They met on the set of Caravan. Actor Stewart Granger was the best man at their wedding. They appeared together in the films Caravan and Trottie True. Kent made her last public appearance in June 2011, when she was honoured by the British Film Institute on her 90th birthday. Kent died in the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds on 30 November 2013, following a fall at her home in Westhorpe. The coroner recorded a narrative verdict that Kent died from accidental injuries and that cardiac disease may have contributed to a fall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Kent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 1996 · Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Phillida Meadowhite
- 1990 · Missing Persons as Phillida Meadowhite
- 1989 · Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do as Self
- 1988 · The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 · Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures as
- 1986 · Lovejoy as Madelene Gilbert
- 1976 · Shout at the Devil as Mrs. Smythe
- 1974 · K is for Killing as Mrs. Garrick
- 1973 · Thriller as Mrs. Garrick
- 1965 · United! as
- 1965 · Public Eye as Mrs Podmore
- 1961 · Sir Francis Drake as Queen Elizabeth I
- 1960 · Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons as Julienne
- 1959 · Please Turn Over as Janet Halliday
- 1959 · No Hiding Place as
- 1959 · Web of Evidence as Louise Burt
- 1958 · Grip of the Strangler as Cora Seth
- 1958 · Bonjour Tristesse as Mrs. Helen Lombard
- 1957 · The Prince and the Showgirl as Maisie Springfield
- 1955 · Before I Wake as Florence Haddon
- 1952 · The Big Frame as Louise Parker
- 1951 · The Browning Version as Millie Crocker-Harris
- 1950 · The Woman in Question as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
- 1950 · Her Favourite Husband as Dorothy Pellegrini
- 1950 · The Reluctant Widow as Elinor Cheviot
- 1949 · Trottie True as Trottie True
- 1948 · Sleeping Car to Trieste as Valya
- 1948 · Bond Street as Ricki Merritt
- 1948 · Good-Time Girl as Gwen Rawlings
- 1947 · The Loves of Joanna Godden as Ellen Godden
- 1947 · The Man Within as Lucy
- 1946 · Carnival as Irene Dale
- 1946 · The Magic Bow as Bianchi
- 1946 · Caravan as Rosal
- 1945 · The Rake's Progress as Jill Duncan
- 1945 · The Wicked Lady as Jackson's Doxy
- 1945 · Waterloo Road as Toni
- 1945 · Madonna of the Seven Moons as Vittoria
- 1944 · Two Thousand Women as Bridie Johnson
- 1944 · Champagne Charlie as Dolly Bellwood
- 1944 · Soldier, Sailor as Cigarette Girl
- 1944 · Fanny by Gaslight as Lucy Beckett
- 1944 · Bees in Paradise as Jani
- 1943 · Warn That Man as Frances Lane
- 1943 · Miss London Ltd. as The Encyclopedia Girl
- 1943 · It's That Man Again as Kitty