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Jean Kent

Jean Kent

Actor · 1921 – 2013 · Brixton, London, England, UK

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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.0

    Shout at the Devil

    1976 · 55 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie6.7

    Bonjour Tristesse

    1958 · 149 votes

  • Movie8.2
  • Movie6.4

    Good-Time Girl

    1948 · 16 votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Browning Version

    1951 · 107 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.0

    Quel bandito sono io

    Her Favourite Husband

    1950 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Wicked Lady

    1945 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Sleeping Car to Trieste

    1948 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Grip of the Strangler

    1958 · 41 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Trottie True

    1949 · 3 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Beyond This Place

    Web of Evidence

    1959 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Fanny by Gaslight

    1944 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Woman in Question

    1950 · 22 votes

  • Movie8.0

    K Is for Killing

    1974 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie6.8

    The Rake's Progress

    1945 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie6.7

    Caravan

    1946 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Magic Bow

    1946 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Please Turn Over

    1959 · 16 votes

  • Movie4.5

    The Lost Hours

    The Big Frame

    1952 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Man Within

    1947 · 4 votes

Series14

  • TV5.2

    The Wednesday Play

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    ITV Playhouse

    1967 · 3 votes

  • TV4.8

    No Hiding Place

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV7.0

    United!

    1965 · 1 votes

  • TV7.0

    Thriller

    1973 · 12 votes

  • TV7.4

    Lovejoy

    1986 · 56 votes

  • TV8.2

    Public Eye

    1965 · 6 votes

  • TV5.1

    Sir Francis Drake

    1961 · 7 votes

  • TV7.8

    Steptoe and Son

    1962 · 39 votes

  • TV7.3

    Up Pompeii!

    1969 · 12 votes

  • TV7.3

    Lytton's Diary

    1985 · 3 votes

  • TV8.0

    Tycoon

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV6.7

    After Henry

    1988 · 6 votes

  • TV7.0

    Time of My Life

    1980 · 1 votes