Jean Kent
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1921-06-29
Day of Death
2013-11-30 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Brixton, London, England, UK
Jean Kent
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1990)
Missing Persons
as Phillida Meadowhite
(1989)
(1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1976)
Shout at the Devil
as Mrs. Smythe
(1974)
K is for Killing
as Mrs. Garrick
(1960)
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Julienne
(1959)
Please Turn Over
as Janet Halliday
(1959)
Web of Evidence
as Louise Burt
(1958)
Bonjour Tristesse
as Mrs. Helen Lombard
(1958)
Grip of the Strangler
as Cora Seth
(1957)
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Maisie Springfield
(1955)
Before I Wake
as Florence Haddon
(1952)
The Big Frame
as Louise Parker
(1951)
The Browning Version
as Millie Crocker-Harris
(1950)
The Woman in Question
as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
(1950)
Her Favourite Husband
as Dorothy Pellegrini
(1950)
The Reluctant Widow
as Elinor Cheviot
(1949)
Trottie True
as Trottie True
(1948)
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Valya
(1948)
Bond Street
as Ricki Merritt
(1948)
Good-Time Girl
as Gwen Rawlings
(1947)
The Man Within
as Lucy
(1947)
The Loves of Joanna Godden
as Ellen Godden
(1946)
Carnival
as Irene Dale
(1946)
Caravan
as Rosal
(1946)
The Magic Bow
as Bianchi
(1945)
Madonna of the Seven Moons
as Vittoria
(1945)
Waterloo Road
as Toni
(1945)
The Wicked Lady
as Jackson's Doxy
(1945)
The Rake's Progress
as Jill Duncan
(1944)
Fanny by Gaslight
as Lucy Beckett
(1944)
Champagne Charlie
as Dolly Bellwood
(1944)
Two Thousand Women
as Bridie Johnson
(1944)
Bees in Paradise
as Jani
(1944)
Soldier, Sailor
as Cigarette Girl
(1943)
Warn That Man
as Frances Lane
(1943)
Miss London Ltd.
as The Encyclopedia Girl
(1943)
It's That Man Again
as Kitty