Jean Kent
Known for Acting · 50 credits
- Born
- 1921-06-29
- Died
- 2013-11-30
- Place of birth
- Brixton, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Joan Mildred Summerfield · Jean Carr · Joan Kent · Joan Summerfield · Peggy Summers · ジーン・ケント
Biography
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).
Known For
TV Shows (12)
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Beatrice
No Hiding Place
1959
Thriller
1973
as Mrs. Garrick
Lovejoy
1986
as Madelene Gilbert
Public Eye
1965
as Mrs Podmore
United!
1965
Sir Francis Drake
1961
as Queen Elizabeth I
Up Pompeii!
1969
as Aphrodite
Lytton's Diary
1985
as Margot Shelley
After Henry
1988
as Mrs Judd-Skeffington
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Tycoon
1978
as Mary Clark
Movies (38)
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
as Mrs. Helen Lombard
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957
as Maisie Springfield
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Shout at the Devil
1976
as Mrs. Smythe
The Wicked Lady
1945
as Jackson's Doxy
The Woman in Question
1950
as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Madonna of the Seven Moons
1945
as Vittoria
Carnival
1946
as Irene Dale
The Big Frame
1952
as Louise Parker
The Browning Version
1951
as Millie Crocker-Harris
Fanny by Gaslight
1944
as Lucy Beckett
Please Turn Over
1959
as Janet Halliday
The Magic Bow
1946
as Bianchi
Caravan
1946
as Rosal
Trottie True
1949
as Trottie True
Good-Time Girl
1948
as Gwen Rawlings
Grip of the Strangler
1958
as Cora Seth
Web of Evidence
1959
as Louise Burt
Her Favourite Husband
1950
as Dorothy Pellegrini
The Rake's Progress
1945
as Jill Duncan
Two Thousand Women
1944
as Bridie Johnson
Waterloo Road
1945
as Toni
Champagne Charlie
1944
as Dolly Bellwood
The Loves of Joanna Godden
1947
as Ellen Godden
Bond Street
1948
as Ricki Merritt
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948
as Valya
Warn That Man
1943
as Frances Lane
The Reluctant Widow
1950
as Elinor Cheviot
The Man Within
1947
as Lucy
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960
as Julienne
K Is for Killing
1974
as Mrs. Garrick
Missing Persons
1990
as Phillida Meadowhite
It's That Man Again
1943
as Kitty
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
1989
as Self
Before I Wake
1955
as Florence Haddon
Bees in Paradise
1944
as Jani
Miss London Ltd.
1943
as The Encyclopedia Girl
Soldier, Sailor
1944
as Cigarette Girl
About 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… With 50 credits spanning from 1943 to 1990, Jean Kent has appeared in 38 films and 12 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jean Kent Movies
- Bonjour Tristesse (1958) — as Mrs. Helen Lombard
- The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) — as Maisie Springfield
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988) — as Self (archive footage)
- Shout at the Devil (1976) — as Mrs. Smythe
- The Wicked Lady (1945) — as Jackson's Doxy
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