Jean Simmons
Birthday: 1929-01-31
Place of Birth: Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
Biography: Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Movies
Spartacus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
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Angel Face
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...
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Guys and Dolls
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e...
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Elmer Gantry
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside e...
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Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet ...
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How to Make an American Quilt
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin...
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The Egyptian
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien...
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The Grass Is Greener
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours...
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The Big Country
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud ...
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Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefa...
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The Robe
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixi...
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Désirée
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napol...
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The Clouded Yellow
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the cou...
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Young Bess
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch ...
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The Way to the Stars
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri...
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A Bullet Is Waiting
A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California bea...
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Footsteps in the Fog
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed ...
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Black Narcissus
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climat...
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Rough Night in Jericho
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control b...
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Shadows in the Sun
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and d...
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So Long at the Fair
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both...
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Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave...
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Down at the Hydro
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love....
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Uncle Silas
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and sc...
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The Happy Ending
When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read abou...
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This Could Be the Night
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a ...
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Going Undercover
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect...
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On Cukor
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the...
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Divorce American Style
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world ...
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The Actress
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom....
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Affair with a Stranger
Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband....
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Fun in the Big Country
Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."...
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Home Before Dark
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital....
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All the Way Home
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidenta...
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Until They Sail
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII....
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Winter Solstice
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor...
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Cage of Gold
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falt...
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This Earth Is Mine
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide wheth...
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Adam and Evelyne
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl....
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Hilda Crane
After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew....
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Life at the Top
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in t...
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Say Hello to Yesterday
Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows her...
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Hungry Hill
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune....
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Dominique
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death....
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The Dawning
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her...
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Mister Buddwing
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is....
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Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and d...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge....
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Meet Sexton Blake
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some ...
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The Blue Lagoon
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days a...
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Laker Girls
Three hopefuls — a college grad, a dance teacher from Watts, and an incognito heiress — vie for a sp...
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Give Us the Moon
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at hav...
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Inherit the Wind
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teache...
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Heidi
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to g...
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The Woman in the Hall
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using ...
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A Friendship in Vienna
Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is...
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Midas Valley
Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitiv...
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Sensibility and Sense
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged ov...
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interfer...
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Decisions! Decisions!
A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the ...
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of cre...
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Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very dif...
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The Easter Promise
Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successf...
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Daisies in December
A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and ...
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A Moment in Time
Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a...
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to b...
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something w...
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Mr. Emmanuel
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German ...
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Her Own Rules
Melissa Gilbert stars as Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for...
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Beggarman, Thief
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, s...
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December Flower
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's strugg...
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Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra....
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Golden Gate
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the...
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People Like Us
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, a...
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A Small Killing
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug con...
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Sports Day
A schoolboy almost misses the school sports day when he is wrongly punished for cruelty to a dog....
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