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Jean Kent

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1921-06-29

Birth Place

Brixton, London, England, UK

Movies and TV shows :

Bees in Paradise

Bees in Paradise

1944

5.3

Movie
Before I Wake

Before I Wake

1955

4.6

Movie
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

1960

6.1

Movie
Bond Street

Bond Street

1948

6.8

Movie
Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse

1958

6.6

Movie
Caravan

Caravan

1946

5.5

Movie
Carnival

Carnival

1946

7.6

Movie
Champagne Charlie

Champagne Charlie

1944

5.2

Movie
Fanny by Gaslight

Fanny by Gaslight

1944

5.7

Movie
poster

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

1986

0.0

TV
Good-Time Girl

Good-Time Girl

1948

5.9

Movie
Grip of the Strangler

Grip of the Strangler

1958

6.0

Movie
Her Favourite Husband

Her Favourite Husband

1950

5.5

Movie
poster

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

1996

7.2

TV
It's That Man Again

It's That Man Again

1943

6.3

Movie
K is for Killing

K is for Killing

1974

0.0

Movie
poster

Lovejoy

1986

7.3

TV
Madonna of the Seven Moons

Madonna of the Seven Moons

1945

6.3

Movie
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

1989

0.0

Movie
Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd.

1943

5.2

Movie
Missing Persons

Missing Persons

1990

4.0

Movie
poster

No Hiding Place

1959

3.7

TV
Please Turn Over

Please Turn Over

1959

5.8

Movie
poster

Public Eye

1965

7.8

TV
Shout at the Devil

Shout at the Devil

1976

5.9

Movie
poster

Sir Francis Drake

1961

4.0

TV
Sleeping Car to Trieste

Sleeping Car to Trieste

1948

6.7

Movie
Soldier, Sailor

Soldier, Sailor

1944

0.0

Movie
The Big Frame

The Big Frame

1952

3.8

Movie
The Browning Version

The Browning Version

1951

7.6

Movie
The Loves of Joanna Godden

The Loves of Joanna Godden

1947

7.0

Movie
The Magic Bow

The Magic Bow

1946

5.3

Movie
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

8.0

Movie
The Man Within

The Man Within

1947

5.7

Movie
The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl

1957

6.3

Movie
The Rake's Progress

The Rake's Progress

1945

7.0

Movie
The Reluctant Widow

The Reluctant Widow

1950

6.5

Movie
The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

1945

6.3

Movie
The Woman in Question

The Woman in Question

1950

6.0

Movie
poster

Thriller

1973

6.6

TV
Trottie True

Trottie True

1949

7.0

Movie
Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women

1944

6.9

Movie
poster

United!

1965

0.0

TV
poster

Up Pompeii!

1970

7.6

TV
Warn That Man

Warn That Man

1943

5.3

Movie
Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road

1945

6.0

Movie
Web of Evidence

Web of Evidence

1959

4.8

Movie