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Jean Kent
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1921-06-29,Brixton, London, England, UK
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

Bonjour Tristesse

6.6

Bonjour Tristesse
1958-01-15

The Prince and the Showgirl

6.33

The Prince and the Showgirl
1957-06-13

The Woman in Question

5.8

The Woman in Question
1950-10-03

Missing Persons

4

Missing Persons
1990-05-30

Champagne Charlie

5

Champagne Charlie
1944-08-25

3.8

The Big Frame
1952-09-01

The Browning Version

7.6

The Browning Version
1951-04-06

Please Turn Over

5.8

Please Turn Over
1959-12-17

4.6

Before I Wake
1955-02-10

5.9

Good-Time Girl
1948-04-28

Grip of the Strangler

5.9

Grip of the Strangler
1958-05-11

Fanny by Gaslight

5.7

Fanny by Gaslight
1944-05-08

Web of Evidence

4.8

Web of Evidence
1959-04-28

The Rake's Progress

7

The Rake's Progress
1945-12-06

5.3

The Magic Bow
1946-09-20

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

6.1

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960-04-02

6.8

Bond Street
1948-05-12

7.6

Carnival
1946-12-02

The Loves of Joanna Godden

7

The Loves of Joanna Godden
1947-06-08

Sleeping Car to Trieste

6.7

Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948-10-06

Shout at the Devil

6

Shout at the Devil
1976-04-12

7

Trottie True
1949-09-29

5.5

Caravan
1946-06-03

Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

0

Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
1989-02-16

The Reluctant Widow

6.5

The Reluctant Widow
1950-05-01

The Wicked Lady

6

The Wicked Lady
1945-11-15

5.3

Warn That Man
1943-07-13

It's That Man Again

6.3

It's That Man Again
1943-03-22

5.7

The Man Within
1947-05-19

Her Favourite Husband

5.5

Her Favourite Husband
1950-05-11

Two Thousand Women

6.8

Two Thousand Women
1944-11-06

Bees in Paradise

5.3

Bees in Paradise
1944-03-20

6

Waterloo Road
1945-02-05

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

8

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01

Madonna of the Seven Moons

6.3

Madonna of the Seven Moons
1945-01-22

Miss London Ltd.

5.2

Miss London Ltd.
1943-06-14

Soldier, Sailor

0

Soldier, Sailor
1944-06-01

K is for Killing

0

K is for Killing
1974-03-02

7.4

Lovejoy
1986-01-10

No Hiding Place

3.7

No Hiding Place
1959-09-16

0

United!
1965-10-04

Sir Francis Drake

4

Sir Francis Drake
1961-11-12

6.6

Thriller
1973-04-14

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

7.2

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996-01-03

7.8

Public Eye
1965-01-23

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

0

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986-09-21