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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1921-06-29
Place of Birth: Brixton, London, England, UK
Also Known As: Joan Mildred Summerfield, Jean Carr, Joan Kent, Joan Summerfield, Peggy Summers, ジーン・ケント

Movies List of Jean Kent

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Bonjour Tristesse

1958 Movie
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The Woman in Question

1950 Movie
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Missing Persons

1990 Movie
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Champagne Charlie

1944 Movie
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The Big Frame

1952 Movie
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The Browning Version

1951 Movie
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Please Turn Over

1959 Movie
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Before I Wake

1955 Movie
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Good-Time Girl

1948 Movie
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Grip of the Strangler

1958 Movie
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Fanny by Gaslight

1944 Movie
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Web of Evidence

1959 Movie
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The Rake's Progress

1945 Movie
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The Magic Bow

1946 Movie
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Bond Street

1948 Movie
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Carnival

1946 Movie
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Shout at the Devil

1976 Movie
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Trottie True

1949 Movie
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Caravan

1946 Movie
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The Reluctant Widow

1950 Movie
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The Wicked Lady

1945 Movie
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Warn That Man

1943 Movie
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It's That Man Again

1943 Movie
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The Man Within

1947 Movie
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Her Favourite Husband

1950 Movie
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Two Thousand Women

1944 Movie
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Bees in Paradise

1944 Movie
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Waterloo Road

1945 Movie
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Miss London Ltd.

1943 Movie
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Soldier, Sailor

1944 Movie
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K is for Killing

1974 Movie