Jean Simmons

...Abnormally Attracted to Sin - a line that was inspired by the 1955 Guys and Dolls musical. "As soon as I heard [the actress] Jean Simmons say that I put the movie on pause and never went back to it, just because my mind as a minister's...

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...Long at the Fair is a 1950 British thriller film directed by Terence Fisher and Anthony Darnborough. It stars Dirk Bogarde and Jean Simmons. In its plot elements and style the film is reminiscent of many of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The...

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...in Lower Holloway, London, England, to Charles Simmons and his wife Winifred (Loveland) Simmons, Jean Simmons began acting at the age of 14. During WWII, the Simmons family had been evacuated to Winscombe in Somerset. Her father, a physical...

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...a sophisticated older lover (Peter Sarsgaard). Mulligan is drawing comparisons to such sublime ingenues as Audrey Hepburn and Jean Simmons. Yet before Mulligan went to Sundance - "It was my first film festival" - Sarsgaard warned her to...

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...Clouded Yellow." He takes a job in the country to catalog butterflies (hence the title), but soon enough, a stunning young woman (Jean Simmons) gets into trouble and the butterflies get shunted aside. And then there are those films about...

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...her husband tried to remind her of all those years ago, and one of the last scenes shows her diving off the high dive. Em (Jean Simmons/Joanna Going) marries young, like most of the women in the story. Despite the promiscuity of her...

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14 and 10 Across 1982 film featuring Malcolm McDowell as Paul Gallier (3,6) 19 'The ---', 1953 film starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons (4) 20 and 23 Across 1990s television series that featured Daniela Nardini as Anna Forbes (4,4)

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But he wasn t just devoting his attention to his career. Along the way there were affairs with leading ladies Claire Bloom and Jean Simmons as well, apparently, as Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe. However the spectacular affair that...

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...since the movie's heavy-handed style harks back to the kind of 1950s Hollywood quasi-biblical parables starring Victor Mature and Jean Simmons that paraded themselves as sacred. Visually as well as narratively, the movie embraces extremes.

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SO CLOSE: Robert and Jean in Beautiful But Dangerous, 1954 AFTER years of keeping mum, Hollywood legend Jean Simmons has admitted she had an affair with tough-guy actor Robert Mitchum. The pair collaborated in the Fifties in films...

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