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Also known as Jean Merilyn Simmons

British-American actress (1929–2010)

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Jean Simmons was a British-American actress who had a long career in film and television from the 1940s until her death in 2010. She is remembered as an influential performer who worked across major Hollywood productions during cinema's golden age.

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Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • Dash Diet Cookbook
  • Hamlet (the Criterion Collection)
  • Prospectives
  • 5 Ingredient Slow Cooker Cookbook
  • The Easy Renal Diet Cookbook

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Film & TV

Acting · Crouch Hill, London, England, UK

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.

Known for

  • Discovering Hamlet — Ophelia (archive footage)2011
  • Shadows in the Sun — Hannah2009
  • Winter Solstice — Countess Lucinda Rhives2003
  • Winter Solstice2003
  • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within — Council Member (voice)2001
  • On Cukor — Narrator2000
  • Her Own Rules — Katherine Stratton1998
  • How to Make an American Quilt — Em1995
  • Daisies in December — Katherine Palmer1995
  • Mysteries of the Bible1994

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Japan
Active from
1929
Active to
2010
likedis auto

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,409
Total plays
5,077

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(1) Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (born 31 January 1929 in Holloway, London) is an English actress. She has starred in numerous movies, including the musical Guys & Dolls alongside Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando and Vivian Blaine. (2) A three-piece punk band from Rome, NY. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jean+Simmons">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,877x

  2. Situated Learning

    · 1991 · cited 30,538x

  3. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,222x

  4. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,660x

  5. The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

    · 2011 · cited 20,709x

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Quotes

  • No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there.

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean Merilyn Simmons (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.

Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hamlet (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Guys and Dolls (1955). Among her other films were Great Expectations (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Blue Lagoon (1949), So Long at the Fair (1950), Angel Face (1953), Young Bess (1953), The Robe (1953), The Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), Spartacus (1960), and The Happy Ending (1969), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won an Emmy Award for the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Simmons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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