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

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1943	It's That Man Again	Kitty	63
2	1943	Miss London Ltd.	The Encyclopedia Girl	52
3	1943	Warn That Man	Frances Lane	53
4	1944	Bees in Paradise	Jani	53
5	1944	Fanny by Gaslight	Lucy Beckett	57
6	1944	Soldier, Sailor	Cigarette Girl	0
7	1944	Champagne Charlie	Dolly Bellwood	56
8	1944	Two Thousand Women	Bridie Johnson	69
9	1945	Madonna of the Seven Moons	Vittoria	63
10	1945	Waterloo Road	Toni	62
11	1945	The Wicked Lady	Jackson's Doxy	64
12	1945	The Rake's Progress	Jill Duncan	70
13	1946	Caravan	Rosal	55
14	1946	The Magic Bow	Bianchi	53
15	1946	Carnival	Irene Dale	76
16	1947	The Man Within	Lucy	57
17	1947	The Loves of Joanna Godden	Ellen Godden	70
18	1948	Good-Time Girl	Gwen Rawlings	61
19	1948	Bond Street	Ricki Merritt	68
20	1948	Sleeping Car to Trieste	Valya	67
21	1949	Trottie True	Trottie True	70
22	1950	The Reluctant Widow	Elinor Cheviot	65
23	1950	Her Favourite Husband	Dorothy Pellegrini	55
24	1950	The Woman in Question	Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)	62
25	1951	The Browning Version	Millie Crocker-Harris	76
26	1952	The Big Frame	Louise Parker	38
27	1955	Before I Wake	Florence Haddon	46
28	1957	The Prince and the Showgirl	Maisie Springfield	64
29	1958	Bonjour Tristesse	Mrs. Helen Lombard	66
30	1958	Grip of the Strangler	Cora Seth	61
31	1959	Web of Evidence	Louise Burt	48
32	1959	Please Turn Over	Janet Halliday	61
33	1960	Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons	Julienne	61
34	1974	K is for Killing	Mrs. Garrick	0
35	1976	Shout at the Devil	Mrs. Smythe	60
36	1988	The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	Self (archive footage)	80
37	1989	Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do	Self	0
38	1990	Missing Persons	Phillida Meadowhite	40

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	No Hiding Place		37
2	1961	Sir Francis Drake	Queen Elizabeth I	45
3	1965	Public Eye	Mrs Podmore	78
4	1965	United!		0
5	1970	Up Pompeii!	Aphrodite	76
6	1973	Thriller	Mrs. Garrick	66
7	1986	Lovejoy	Madelene Gilbert	73
8	1986	Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures		0

Jean Kent

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