From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress.She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. Kents 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 Gainsboroughs 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 Rakes Progress (1945).Kent continued to have success in films. Her favorite film was musical Trottie True (1949) where she played the lead.Kents 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 Bluebeards 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.
Maisie Springfield
Film 1957
Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Film 1950
Phillida Meadowhite
Film 1990
Dolly Bellwood
Film 1944
Louise Parker
Film 1952
Millie Crocker-Harris
Film 1951
Janet Halliday
Film 1959
Florence Haddon
Film 1955
Gwen Rawlings
Film 1948
Cora Seth
Film 1958
Lucy Beckett
Film 1944
Jill Duncan
Film 1945
Bianchi
Film 1946
Julienne
Film 1960
Ricki Merritt
Film 1948
Irene Dale
Film 1946
Mrs. Smythe
Film 1976
Trottie True
Film 1949
Rosal
Film 1946
Self
Film 1989
Elinor Cheviot
Film 1950
Jackson's Doxy
Film 1945
Frances Lane
Film 1943
Kitty
Film 1943
Lucy
Film 1947
Dorothy Pellegrini
Film 1950
Bridie Johnson
Film 1944
Jani
Film 1944
Self (archive footage)
Film 1988
Vittoria
Film 1945
The Encyclopedia Girl
Film 1943
Cigarette Girl
Film 1944
Mrs. Garrick
Film 1974
Madelene Gilbert
Tv 1986
Tv 1959
Tv 1965
Queen Elizabeth I
Tv 1961
Mrs. Garrick
Tv 1973
Phillida Meadowhite
Tv 1996
Mrs Podmore
Tv 1965
Tv 1986