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person_profile-Jean Kent

Jean Kent Died at age: 92

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jean Kent

Date of Birth:

Jun 29, 1921

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Nov 30, 2013

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Jean Kent

Found 36 Movies in total

Missing Persons

Phillida Meadowhite ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1989

... 1988

Shout at the Devil

Mrs. Smythe ( Actor )

... 1976

K is for Killing

Mrs. Garrick ( Actor )

... 1974

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

Julienne ( Actor )

... 1960

Please Turn Over

Janet Halliday ( Actor )

... 1959

Web of Evidence

Louise Burt ( Actor )

... 1959

Grip of the Strangler

Cora Seth ( Actor )

... 1958

Bonjour Tristesse

Mrs. Helen Lombard ( Actor )

... 1958

The Prince and the Showgirl

Maisie Springfield ( Actor )

... 1957

Before I Wake

Florence Haddon ( Actor )

... 1955

The Big Frame

Louise Parker ( Actor )

... 1952

The Browning Version

Millie Crocker-Harris ( Actor )

... 1951

The Woman in Question

Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice) ( Actor )

... 1950

Her Favourite Husband

Dorothy Pellegrini ( Actor )

... 1950

Trottie True

Trottie True ( Actor )

... 1949

... 1948

Bond Street

Ricki Merritt ( Actor )

... 1948

Good-Time Girl

Gwen Rawlings ( Actor )

... 1948

The Loves of Joanna Godden

Ellen Godden ( Actor )

... 1947

The Man Within

Lucy ( Actor )

... 1947

Carnival

Irene Dale ( Actor )

... 1946

The Magic Bow

Bianchi ( Actor )

... 1946

Caravan

Rosal ( Actor )

... 1946

The Rake's Progress

Jill Duncan ( Actor )

... 1945

The Wicked Lady

Jackson's Doxy ( Actor )

... 1945

Waterloo Road

Toni ( Actor )

... 1945

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Vittoria ( Actor )

... 1945

Two Thousand Women

Bridie Johnson ( Actor )

... 1944

Champagne Charlie

Dolly Bellwood ( Actor )

... 1944

Soldier, Sailor

Cigarette Girl ( Actor )

... 1944

Fanny by Gaslight

Lucy Beckett ( Actor )

... 1944

Bees in Paradise

Jani ( Actor )

... 1944

Warn That Man

Frances Lane ( Actor )

... 1943

Miss London Ltd.

The Encyclopedia Girl ( Actor )

... 1943