Jean Simmons
Actor
Lives RememberedAmerican actor who appeared in Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), with Clark Gable, in Elmer Gantry (1960), opposite Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons, and in a multitude of television series, among them The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Hawaii... In this article: Yale University, Emmy, Elmer Gantry, Battle of Britain, Daily Post, RAF, Chuckles the Clown, King Baudouin, and Oldham Athletic |
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Stuff | November 13, 2009
Tori Amos: Sins and sensibility
...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...
In this article: Tori Amos, Crucify, Cornflake Girl, Me and a Gun, Peabody Conservatory, Taylor Swift, Guys and Dolls, and George Bush
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Wikipedia | October 27, 2009
So Long at the Fair
...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...
In this article: So Long at the Fair, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Terence Fisher, Into Thin Air, and Benjamin Frankel
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
Jean Simmons
...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...
In this article: Jean Merilyn Simmons, Ophelia, Stewart Granger, Rank Organisation, Richard Brooks, London, Spencer Tracy, Howard Hughes, Officer in the Order of the British Empire, and Give us the Moon
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Boston Herald | October 12, 2009
British newcomer earns Oscar buzz for 'Education'
...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...
In this article: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Oxford University, An Education, Golden Globe, Audrey Hepburn, and Pride and Prejudice
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L.A. Times - Movie Reviews | October 11, 2009
'Footsteps and Fog: British Film Noir'
...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...
In this article: The Third Man, John Mills, Jules Dassin, Britain, UCLA, They Drive by Night, London, New York, Night and the City, and Joseph Cotten
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
How to Make an American Quilt
...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...
In this article: Loren Dean, How to Make an American Quilt, Dog, Anne Bancroft, and Dermot Mulroney
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Sunday Mirror | August 11, 2009
QUIZWORD CROSSWORD
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)
In this article: Man Booker Prize, Pain-killer, The Gathering, Superman, Malcolm McDowell, Richard Burton, Daniela Nardini, Emilio Estevez, and Harry Dean Stanton
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Daily Express | July 22, 2009
The idle idol
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...
In this article: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, James Hunt, Cleopatra, Laurence Olivier, Oscars, and Bluebeard
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New York Times | June 25, 2009
Movie Review 'The Stoning of Soraya M.': An Iranian Village Mob and a Wife's Execution
...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.
In this article: The Stoning of Soraya M., House of Sand and Fog, Islamic, Jim Caviezel, Cyrus Nowrasteh, and Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Daily Express | June 23, 2009
Jean spills beans on Mitchum
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...
In this article: Robert Mitchum, Hollywood, Grass Is Greener, Angel Face, Stewart Granger, Stanley Donen, Otto Preminger, and Spencer Tracy
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Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (born January 31, 1929) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. Simmons was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
- Name At Birth:
- Jean Merilyn Simmons
- Birth Date:
- January 31, 1929
- Birthplace:
- Crouch Hill, London, England, United Kingdom
- Years Active:
- 1944-present
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