Jean Kent
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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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.743 |
Birthday | 1921-06-29 |
Place of Birth | Brixton, London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Joan Mildred Summerfield, Jean Carr, Joan Kent, Joan Summerfield, Peggy Summers, ジーン・ケント, |
1958
Bonjour Tristesse
6.633/128
Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cec...
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Bonjour Tristesse
1957
The Prince and the Showgirl
6.353/173
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
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The Prince and the Showgirl
1950
The Woman in Question
5.8/15
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions...
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The Woman in Question
1944
Champagne Charlie
4.8/5
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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Champagne Charlie
1945
Waterloo Road
6/16
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Waterloo Road
1952
The Big Frame
3.8/8
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The Big Frame
1951
The Browning Version
7.6/86
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1959
Please Turn Over
5.808/13
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Please Turn Over
1955
Before I Wake
4.571/7
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Before I Wake
1948
Good-Time Girl
5.9/14
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in pet...
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Good-Time Girl
1958
Grip of the Strangler
5.944/36
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Grip of the Strangler
1959
Web of Evidence
4.8/4
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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Web of Evidence
1944
Fanny by Gaslight
5.7/8
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Fanny by Gaslight
1945
The Rake's Progress
6.7/10
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The Rake's Progress
1946
The Magic Bow
5.3/7
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The Magic Bow
1960
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
6.1/9
A murderer enriches his finances by marrying and then killing off a series of wealthy women.
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1948
Bond Street
6.8/3
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1946
Carnival
7.6/5
A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the brig...
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Carnival
1947
The Loves of Joanna Godden
7/2
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
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Shout at the Devil
6.1/36
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Shout at the Devil
1948
Sleeping Car to Trieste
6.8/8
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
1949
Trottie True
7/2
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true b...
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1946
Caravan
5.5/4
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1950
The Reluctant Widow
6.5/2
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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The Reluctant Widow
1945
The Wicked Lady
6.04/25
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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The Wicked Lady
1943
Warn That Man
5.3/6
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1943
It's That Man Again
6.3/3
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1947
The Man Within
5.7/3
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1944
Two Thousand Women
6.8/9
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1950
Her Favourite Husband
5.5/4
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1944
Bees in Paradise
5.3/6
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1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8/3
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1945
Madonna of the Seven Moons
6.286/14
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1943
Miss London Ltd.
5.2/5
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1944
Soldier, Sailor
0/0
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Soldier, Sailor
1974
K is for Killing
0/0
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.
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Missing Persons
4/1
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Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
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