Person Details

Birthday: 1921-06-29 09:57:24

Death: 2013-11-30 09:57:24

Aliases: Joan Mildred Summerfield , Jean Carr , Joan Kent , Joan Summerfield , Peggy Summers

Gender: Female

Place of birth: London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 26

TV Involvements: 4


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Kent (born 29 June 1921) is 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.

Most Famous Work

Public Eye
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8

Public Eye

(1965) Mrs Podmore
Thriller
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7

Thriller

(1973) Mrs. Garrick
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
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7

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

(1996) Phillida Meadowhite
Sir Francis Drake
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4

Sir Francis Drake

(1961) Queen Elizabeth I
Bonjour Tristesse
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7

Bonjour Tristesse

(1958) Mrs. Helen Lombard
Shout at the Devil
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6

Shout at the Devil

(1976) Mrs. Smythe
The Browning Version
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8

The Browning Version

(1951) Millie Crocker-Harris
The Woman in Question
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6

The Woman in Question

(1950) Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1996 Phillida Meadowhite
1990 Phillida Meadowhite
1988 (archive footage)
1986 Madelene Gilbert
1976 Mrs. Smythe
1974 Mrs. Garrick
1973 Mrs. Garrick
1965 N/A
Mrs Podmore
1961 Queen Elizabeth I
1960 Julienne
1959 Janet Halliday
N/A
Louise Burt
1958 Cora Seth
Mrs. Helen Lombard
1957 Maisie Springfield
1955 Florence Haddon
1952 Louise Parker
1951 Millie Crocker-Harris
1950 Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Dorothy Pellegrini
Elinor Cheviot
1949 Trottie True
1948 Valya
Ricki Merritt
Gwen Rawlings
1947 Ellen Godden
Lucy
1946 Irene Dale
Bianchi
Rosal
1945 Jill Duncan
Jackson's Doxy
Toni
Vittoria
1944 Bridie Johnson
Dolly Bellwood
Cigarette Girl
Lucy Beckett
Jani
1943 Frances Lane
The Encyclopedia Girl
Kitty
Year Character Movie/Tv

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