1921-06-29 ( 103 years old ) in Brixton, London, England, UK
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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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Movies
Missing Persons
1990-05-30
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
1989-02-16
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01
Shout at the Devil
1976-04-12
K is for Killing
1974-03-02
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960-04-02
Please Turn Over
1959-12-17
Web of Evidence
1959-04-28
Grip of the Strangler
1958-05-11
Bonjour Tristesse
1958-01-15
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957-06-13
Before I Wake
1955-02-10
The Big Frame
1952-09-01
The Browning Version
1951-04-06
The Woman in Question
1950-10-03
Her Favourite Husband
1950-05-11
The Reluctant Widow
1950-05-01
Trottie True
1949-09-29
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948-10-06
Bond Street
1948-05-12
Good-Time Girl
1948-04-28
The Loves of Joanna Godden
1947-06-08
The Man Within
1947-05-19
Carnival
1946-12-02
The Magic Bow
1946-09-20
Caravan
1946-06-03
The Rake's Progress
1945-12-06
The Wicked Lady
1945-11-15
Waterloo Road
1945-02-05
Madonna of the Seven Moons
1945-01-22
Two Thousand Women
1944-11-06
Champagne Charlie
1944-08-25
Soldier, Sailor
1944-06-01
Fanny by Gaslight
1944-05-08
Bees in Paradise
1944-03-20
Warn That Man
1943-07-13
Miss London Ltd.
1943-06-14
It's That Man Again
1943-03-22
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