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Jean Kent‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1921-06-29

Popularity

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Jean Kent

Brixton, London, England, UK

Jean Kent

Brixton, London, England, UK

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1921-06-29

Popularity

star7.5

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse‌
star6.6
calendar 1958

The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl‌
star6.3
calendar 1957

The Woman in Question

The Woman in Question‌
star5.9
calendar 1950

Missing Persons

Missing Persons‌
star4.0
calendar 1990

Champagne Charlie

Champagne Charlie‌
star5.1
calendar 1944

The Big Frame

The Big Frame‌
star3.8
calendar 1952

The Browning Version

The Browning Version‌
star7.6
calendar 1951

Please Turn Over

Please Turn Over‌
star5.8
calendar 1959

Before I Wake

Before I Wake‌
star4.6
calendar 1955

Good-Time Girl

Good-Time Girl‌
star5.9
calendar 1948

Grip of the Strangler

Grip of the Strangler‌
star5.9
calendar 1958

Fanny by Gaslight

Fanny by Gaslight‌
star5.7
calendar 1944

Web of Evidence

Web of Evidence‌
star4.8
calendar 1959

The Rake's Progress

The Rake's Progress‌
star7.0
calendar 1945

The Magic Bow

The Magic Bow‌
star5.3
calendar 1946

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons‌
star6.1
calendar 1960

Bond Street

Bond Street‌
star6.8
calendar 1948

Carnival

Carnival‌
star7.6
calendar 1946

The Loves of Joanna Godden

The Loves of Joanna Godden‌
star7.0
calendar 1947

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Sleeping Car to Trieste‌
star6.7
calendar 1948

Shout at the Devil

Shout at the Devil‌
star6.0
calendar 1976

Trottie True

Trottie True‌
star7.0
calendar 1949

Caravan

Caravan‌
star5.5
calendar 1946

Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do‌
star0.0
calendar 1989

The Reluctant Widow

The Reluctant Widow‌
star6.5
calendar 1950

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady‌
star6.1
calendar 1945

Warn That Man

Warn That Man‌
star5.3
calendar 1943

It's That Man Again

It's That Man Again‌
star6.3
calendar 1943

The Man Within

The Man Within‌
star5.7
calendar 1947

Her Favourite Husband

Her Favourite Husband‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women‌
star6.8
calendar 1944

Bees in Paradise

Bees in Paradise‌
star5.3
calendar 1944

Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road‌
star6.0
calendar 1945

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind‌
star8.0
calendar 1988

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Madonna of the Seven Moons‌
star6.3
calendar 1945

Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd.‌
star5.2
calendar 1943

Soldier, Sailor

Soldier, Sailor‌
star0.0
calendar 1944

K is for Killing

K is for Killing‌
star0.0
calendar 1974

Tv Credits

Lovejoy

Lovejoy‌
star7.3
calendar 1986

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place‌
star3.7
calendar 1959

United!

United!‌
star0.0
calendar 1965

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake‌
star4.0
calendar 1961

Thriller

Thriller‌
star6.6
calendar 1973

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates‌
star7.2
calendar 1996

Public Eye

Public Eye‌
star7.8
calendar 1965

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures‌
star0.0
calendar 1986