Jean Kent

Known for ActingBorn 1921-06-29Died 2013-11-30Brixton, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Public Eye

Tycoon

K Is for Killing

Lytton's Diary

The Loves of Joanna Godden

Lovejoy

Carnival

The Browning Version

Up Pompeii!

ITV Playhouse

United!

Thriller

Trottie True

Soldier, Sailor

Bond Street

Two Thousand Women

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Bonjour Tristesse

The Rake's Progress

The Man Within

The Reluctant Widow

After Henry

Caravan

It's That Man Again

The Prince and the Showgirl

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

Please Turn Over

Good-Time Girl

The Woman in Question

Shout at the Devil

Madonna of the Seven Moons

The Wicked Lady

Grip of the Strangler

Bees in Paradise

Her Favourite Husband

Waterloo Road

Miss London Ltd.

The Magic Bow

Champagne Charlie

Warn That Man

Fanny by Gaslight

The Wednesday Play

Sir Francis Drake

Before I Wake

No Hiding Place

Web of Evidence

The Big Frame