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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 Grang…
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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.
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Missing Persons
as Phillida Meadowhite
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
as Self
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
Shout at the Devil
as Mrs. Smythe
K Is for Killing
as Mrs. Garrick
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Julienne
Please Turn Over
as Janet Halliday
Web of Evidence
as Louise Burt
Grip of the Strangler
as Cora Seth
Bonjour Tristesse
as Mrs. Helen Lombard
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Maisie Springfield
Before I Wake
as Florence Haddon
The Big Frame
as Louise Parker
The Browning Version
as Millie Crocker-Harris
The Woman in Question
as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Her Favourite Husband
as Dorothy Pellegrini
No Poster
The Reluctant Widow
as Elinor Cheviot
Trottie True
as Trottie True
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Valya
Bond Street
as Ricki Merritt
Good-Time Girl
as Gwen Rawlings
The Loves of Joanna Godden
as Ellen Godden
The Man Within
as Lucy
Carnival
as Irene Dale
The Magic Bow
as Bianchi
Caravan
as Rosal
The Rake's Progress
as Jill Duncan
The Wicked Lady
as Jackson's Doxy
Waterloo Road
as Toni
Madonna of the Seven Moons
as Vittoria
Two Thousand Women
as Bridie Johnson
Champagne Charlie
as Dolly Bellwood
Soldier, Sailor
as Cigarette Girl
Fanny by Gaslight
as Lucy Beckett
Bees in Paradise
as Jani
Warn That Man
as Frances Lane
Miss London Ltd.
as The Encyclopedia Girl
No Poster
It's That Man Again
as Kitty