1921-06-29 Brixton, 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.
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Missing Persons | Phillida Meadowhite | 1990-05-30 |
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Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do | Self | 1989-02-16 |
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
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Shout at the Devil | Mrs. Smythe | 1976-04-12 |
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K is for Killing | Mrs. Garrick | 1974-03-02 |
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Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons | Julienne | 1960-04-02 |
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Please Turn Over | Janet Halliday | 1959-12-17 |
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Beyond This Place | Louise Burt | 1959-04-28 |
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Bonjour Tristesse | Mrs. Helen Lombard | 1958-01-15 |
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Grip of the Strangler | Cora Seth | 1958-05-11 |
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The Prince and the Showgirl | Maisie Springfield | 1957-06-13 |
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Before I Wake | Florence Haddon | 1955-02-10 |
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The Lost Hours | Louise Parker | 1952-09-01 |
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The Browning Version | Millie Crocker-Harris | 1951-04-06 |
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The Woman in Question | Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice) | 1950-10-03 |
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Quel bandito sono io | Dorothy Pellegrini | 1950-05-11 |
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The Reluctant Widow | Elinor Cheviot | 1950-05-01 |
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Trottie True | Trottie True | 1949-09-29 |
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Bond Street | Ricki Merritt | 1948-05-12 |
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Sleeping Car to Trieste | Valya | 1948-10-06 |
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Good-Time Girl | Gwen Rawlings | 1948-04-28 |
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The Man Within | Lucy | 1947-05-19 |
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The Loves of Joanna Godden | Ellen Godden | 1947-06-08 |
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Caravan | Rosal | 1946-06-03 |
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Carnival | Irene Dale | 1946-12-02 |
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The Magic Bow | Bianchi | 1946-09-20 |
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The Rake's Progress | Jill Duncan | 1945-12-06 |
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Waterloo Road | Toni | 1945-02-05 |
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The Wicked Lady | Jackson's Doxy | 1945-11-15 |
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Madonna of the Seven Moons | Vittoria | 1945-01-22 |
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Soldier, Sailor | Cigarette Girl | 1944-06-01 |
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Champagne Charlie | Dolly Bellwood | 1944-08-25 |
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Fanny by Gaslight | Lucy Beckett | 1944-05-08 |
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Two Thousand Women | Bridie Johnson | 1944-11-06 |
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Bees in Paradise | Jani | 1944-03-20 |
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Warn That Man | Frances Lane | 1943-07-13 |
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Miss London Ltd. | The Encyclopedia Girl | 1943-06-14 |
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It's That Man Again | Kitty | 1943-03-22 |
