1. Jean Kent, born Joan Mildred Field was an English film and television actress.
27 Facts About Jean Kent
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Jean Kent started her theatrical career at age 10 in 1931 as a dancer.
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Jean Kent used the stage name Jean Carr when she appeared as a chorus girl in the Windmill Theatre in London from which she was fired by Vivian Van Damm.
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Jean Kent signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War.
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Jean Kent had small roles in It's That Man Again, Miss London Ltd.
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Jean Kent appeared in Two Thousand Women, playing a stripper who is interned by the Germans.
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Jean Kent portrayed a Pacific Islander in Bees in Paradise with Arthur Askey and the ingenue in a Tommy Trinder musical Champagne Charlie.
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Jean Kent played a part turned down by Margaret Lockwood, that of the childhood friend of the character played by Phyllis Calvert, who becomes the mistress of James Mason's character.
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Jean Kent shared top billing with Granger in Caravan, playing a gypsy girl in another melodrama.
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Granger and Jean Kent were reunited in The Magic Bow, with Jean Kent again taking a part originally meant for Margaret Lockwood.
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Jean Kent had a good part in The Loves of Joanna Godden and was given a star role in Good-Time Girl, a melodrama about a girl who goes off the rails.
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Jean Kent was top billed as one of several names in Bond Street and was the female lead in a thriller Sleeping Car to Trieste, playing a spy.
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Jean Kent had her best chance yet playing the lead in a musical Trottie True which became her favourite film.
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Jean Kent made a comedy in Italy, Her Favourite Husband and appeared opposite Dirk Bogarde in The Woman in Question.
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In 1950, Jean Kent was voted the 9th biggest British star in Britain.
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Jean Kent starred in the melodrama The Reluctant Widow then had a good role as the unfaithful wife in The Browning Version.
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Jean Kent was in a thriller The Lost Hours with American actor Mark Stevens and Before I Wake.
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Jean Kent appeared in Arthur Watkyn's historical play The Moonraker in 1952 and in 1953 was in a play Uncertain Joy.
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In 1954, Jean Kent fell ill while touring in a stage production of The Deep Blue Sea in South Africa.
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Jean Kent had supporting roles in The Prince and the Showgirl, Bonjour Tristesse, and the horror film The Haunted Strangler.
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Jean Kent was in the comedy Please Turn Over and the thriller Beyond This Place.
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Jean Kent was one of several female stars in Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons with George Sanders.
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Jean Kent was married to Austrian actor Josef Ramart from 1946 until his death in 1989, aged 70.
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Jean Kent was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1974 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Strand Theatre.
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Jean Kent made her last public appearance in June 2011, when she was honoured by the British Film Institute on her 90th birthday.
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Jean Kent was a guest at a screening of Caravan at the BFI Southbank.
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Jean Kent died in the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds on 30 November 2013, following a fall at her home in Westhorpe.