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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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Filmography (Movies)
Missing Persons
Character:Phillida Meadowhite
Release Date:30/05/1990
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
Character:Self
Release Date:16/02/1989
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/10/1988
Shout at the Devil
Character:Mrs. Smythe
Release Date:12/04/1976
K Is for Killing
Character:Mrs. Garrick
Release Date:02/03/1974
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Character:Julienne
Release Date:02/04/1960
Please Turn Over
Character:Janet Halliday
Release Date:17/12/1959
Web of Evidence
Character:Louise Burt
Release Date:28/04/1959
Grip of the Strangler
Character:Cora Seth
Release Date:11/05/1958
Bonjour Tristesse
Character:Mrs. Helen Lombard
Release Date:15/01/1958
The Prince and the Showgirl
Character:Maisie Springfield
Release Date:13/06/1957
Before I Wake
Character:Florence Haddon
Release Date:10/02/1955
The Big Frame
Character:Louise Parker
Release Date:01/09/1952
The Browning Version
Character:Millie Crocker-Harris
Release Date:06/04/1951
The Woman in Question
Character:Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Release Date:03/10/1950
Her Favourite Husband
Character:Dorothy Pellegrini
Release Date:11/05/1950
The Reluctant Widow
Character:Elinor Cheviot
Release Date:01/05/1950
Trottie True
Character:Trottie True
Release Date:29/09/1949
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Character:Valya
Release Date:06/10/1948
Bond Street
Character:Ricki Merritt
Release Date:12/05/1948
Good-Time Girl
Character:Gwen Rawlings
Release Date:28/04/1948
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Character:Ellen Godden
Release Date:08/06/1947
The Man Within
Character:Lucy
Release Date:19/05/1947
Carnival
Character:Irene Dale
Release Date:02/12/1946
The Magic Bow
Character:Bianchi
Release Date:25/11/1946
Caravan
Character:Rosal
Release Date:03/06/1946
The Rake's Progress
Character:Jill Duncan
Release Date:06/12/1945
The Wicked Lady
Character:Jackson's Doxy
Release Date:15/11/1945
Waterloo Road
Character:Toni
Release Date:05/02/1945
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Character:Vittoria
Release Date:22/01/1945
Two Thousand Women
Character:Bridie Johnson
Release Date:06/11/1944
Champagne Charlie
Character:Dolly Bellwood
Release Date:25/08/1944
Soldier, Sailor
Character:Cigarette Girl
Release Date:01/06/1944
Fanny by Gaslight
Character:Lucy Beckett
Release Date:08/05/1944
Bees in Paradise
Character:Jani
Release Date:20/03/1944
Warn That Man
Character:Frances Lane
Release Date:13/07/1943
Miss London Ltd.
Character:The Encyclopedia Girl
Release Date:14/06/1943
It's That Man Again
Character:Kitty
Release Date:22/03/1943
Television Appearances
After Henry
Character:Mrs Judd-Skeffington
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Character:
Lovejoy
Character:Madelene Gilbert
Tycoon
Character:Mary Clark
Thriller
Character:Mrs. Garrick
Up Pompeii!
Character:Aphrodite
United!
Character:
Public Eye
Character:Mrs Podmore
Sir Francis Drake
Character:Queen Elizabeth I
No Hiding Place
Character:
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