Jean Kent

Jean Kent

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Kent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Jean Kent
  • Popularity: 3.287
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1921-06-29
  • Place of Birth: Brixton, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Joan Mildred Summerfield, Jean Carr, Joan Kent, Joan Summerfield, Peggy Summers, ジーン・ケント
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Jean Kent Movies

  • 1958
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    Bonjour Tristesse

    Bonjour Tristesse

    6.6 1958 HD

    Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa,...

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  • 1957
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    The Prince and the Showgirl

    The Prince and the Showgirl

    6.3 1957 HD

    An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

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  • 1950
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    The Woman in Question

    The Woman in Question

    5.8 1950 HD

    Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their...

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  • 1990
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    Missing Persons

    Missing Persons

    4 1990 HD

    During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage....

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  • 1944
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    Champagne Charlie

    Champagne Charlie

    5 1944 HD

    A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

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  • 1952
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    The Big Frame

    The Big Frame

    3.8 1952 HD

    An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...

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  • 1951
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    The Browning Version

    The Browning Version

    7.621 1951 HD

    Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his...

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  • 1959
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    Please Turn Over

    Please Turn Over

    5.8 1959 HD

    The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy...

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  • 1955
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    Before I Wake

    Before I Wake

    4.6 1955 HD

    A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy...

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  • 1948
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    Good-Time Girl

    Good-Time Girl

    5.9 1948 HD

    Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in...

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  • 1958
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    Grip of the Strangler

    Grip of the Strangler

    5.9 1958 HD

    A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

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  • 1944
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    Fanny by Gaslight

    Fanny by Gaslight

    5.7 1944 HD

    Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...

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  • 1959
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    Web of Evidence

    Web of Evidence

    4.8 1959 HD

    A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

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  • 1945
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    The Rake's Progress

    The Rake's Progress

    7 1945 HD

    Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his...

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  • 1946
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    The Magic Bow

    The Magic Bow

    5.3 1946 HD

    Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert...

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  • 1960
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    Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

    Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

    6.1 1960 HD

    A murderer enriches his finances by marrying and then killing off a series of wealthy women.

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  • 1948
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    Bond Street

    Bond Street

    6.8 1948 HD

    Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the...

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  • 1946
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    Carnival

    Carnival

    7.6 1946 HD

    A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the...

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  • 1947
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    The Loves of Joanna Godden

    The Loves of Joanna Godden

    7 1947 HD

    Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

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  • 1948
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    Sleeping Car to Trieste

    Sleeping Car to Trieste

    6.7 1948 HD

    Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

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  • 1976
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    Shout at the Devil

    Shout at the Devil

    6 1976 HD

    During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German...

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  • 1949
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    Trottie True

    Trottie True

    7 1949 HD

    Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true...

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  • 1946
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    Caravan

    Caravan

    5.5 1946 HD

    During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable...

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  • 1989
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    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

    1 1989 HD

    A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec...

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  • 1950
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    The Reluctant Widow

    The Reluctant Widow

    6.5 1950 HD

    A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.

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  • 1945
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    The Wicked Lady

    The Wicked Lady

    6.115 1945 HD

    A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

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  • 1943
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    Warn That Man

    Warn That Man

    5.3 1943 HD

    At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a...

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  • 1943
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    It's That Man Again

    It's That Man Again

    6.3 1943 HD

    Lunatic British comedy about a small town mayor who finds himself the owner of a broken-down London theatre and acting school. Insanity run amok.

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  • 1947
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    The Man Within

    The Man Within

    5.7 1947 HD

    A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.

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  • 1950
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    Her Favourite Husband

    Her Favourite Husband

    5.5 1950 HD

    While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank,...

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  • 1944
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    Two Thousand Women

    Two Thousand Women

    6.8 1944 HD

    During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

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  • 1944
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    Bees in Paradise

    Bees in Paradise

    5.3 1944 HD

    Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.

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  • 1945
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    Waterloo Road

    Waterloo Road

    6 1945 HD

    During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

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  • 1988
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    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    8 1988 HD

    This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

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  • 1945
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    Madonna of the Seven Moons

    Madonna of the Seven Moons

    6.3 1945 HD

    In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred...

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  • 1943
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    Miss London Ltd.

    Miss London Ltd.

    5.2 1943 HD

    Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers'...

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  • 1944
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    Soldier, Sailor

    Soldier, Sailor

    1 1944 HD

    Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.

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  • 1974
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    K is for Killing

    K is for Killing

    1 1974 HD

    A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.

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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.3 1986 HD

    The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 1965
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    United!

    United!

    1 1965 HD

    United! was a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC1. The series...

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  • 1961
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    Sir Francis Drake

    Sir Francis Drake

    4 1961 HD

    Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden...

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  • 1973
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.6 1973 HD

    Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a...

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  • 1996
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    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

    7.2 1996 HD

    Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her...

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  • 1965
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    Public Eye

    Public Eye

    7.8 1965 HD

    Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a...

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  • 1986
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    Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

    Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

    1 1986 HD

    A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

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