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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.

Known For: Acting
Born: Brixton, London, England, UK, 1921-06-29
Died: 2013-11-30

Film

No.YearTitleRoleVote Average
11943Kitty63
21943The Encyclopedia Girl52
31943Frances Lane53
41944Jani53
51944Lucy Beckett57
61944Cigarette Girl0
71944Dolly Bellwood51
81944Bridie Johnson68
91945Vittoria63
101945Toni60
111945Jackson's Doxy61
121945Jill Duncan70
131946Rosal55
141946Bianchi53
151946Irene Dale76
161947Lucy57
171947Ellen Godden70
181948Gwen Rawlings59
191948Ricki Merritt68
201948Valya67
211949Trottie True70
221950Elinor Cheviot65
231950Dorothy Pellegrini55
241950Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)59
251951Millie Crocker-Harris76
261952Louise Parker38
271955Florence Haddon46
281957Maisie Springfield63
291958Mrs. Helen Lombard66
301958Cora Seth59
311959Louise Burt48
321959Janet Halliday58
331960Julienne61
341974Mrs. Garrick0
351976Mrs. Smythe60
361988Self (archive footage)80
371989Self0
381990Phillida Meadowhite40

Television

No.YearTitleRoleVote Average
1195937
21961Queen Elizabeth I40
31965Mrs Podmore78
419650
51970Aphrodite76
61973Mrs. Garrick66
71986Madelene Gilbert73
819860
91996Phillida Meadowhite72
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