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). Kent continued to have success in films. Her favorite film was musical Trottie True (1949) where she played the lead. Kent's 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 Bluebeard's 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.

Filmography

• 1990Missing Persons — Phillida Meadowhite
• After Henry — Mrs Judd-Skeffington
• Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
• Lovejoy — Madelene Gilbert
• Lytton's Diary — Margot Shelley
• Time of My Life — Mrs Wordsworth
• Tycoon — Mary Clark
• 1976Shout at the Devil — Mrs. Smythe
• 1974K Is for Killing — Mrs. Garrick
• Thriller — Mrs. Garrick
• Up Pompeii! — Aphrodite
• ITV Playhouse — Beatrice
• Public Eye — Mrs Podmore
• United! — Margie Stringer
• The Wednesday Play — Mrs. Da Tanka
• Steptoe and Son — Daphne Goodlace
• Sir Francis Drake — Queen Elizabeth I
• 1960Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons — Julienne
• No Hiding Place
• 1959Please Turn Over — Janet Halliday
• 1959Web of Evidence — Louise Burt
• 1958Bonjour Tristesse — Mrs. Helen Lombard
• 1958Grip of the Strangler — Cora Seth
• 1957The Prince and the Showgirl — Maisie Springfield
• 1955Before I Wake — Florence Haddon
• 1952The Big Frame — Louise Parker
• 1951The Browning Version — Millie Crocker-Harris
• 1950Her Favourite Husband — Dorothy Pellegrini
• 1950The Reluctant Widow — Elinor Cheviot
• 1950The Woman in Question — Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
• 1949Trottie True — Trottie True
• 1948Bond Street — Ricki Merritt
• 1948Good-Time Girl — Gwen Rawlings
• 1948Sleeping Car to Trieste — Valya
• 1947The Loves of Joanna Godden — Ellen Godden
• 1947The Man Within — Lucy
• 1946Caravan — Rosal
• 1946Carnival — Irene Dale
• 1946The Magic Bow — Bianchi
• 1945Madonna of the Seven Moons — Vittoria
• 1945The Rake's Progress — Jill Duncan
• 1945The Wicked Lady — Jackson's Doxy
• 1945Waterloo Road — Toni
• 1944Bees in Paradise — Jani
• 1944Champagne Charlie — Dolly Bellwood
• 1944Fanny by Gaslight — Lucy Beckett
• 1944Soldier, Sailor — Cigarette Girl
• 1944Two Thousand Women — Bridie Johnson
• 1943It's That Man Again — Kitty
• 1943Miss London Ltd. — The Encyclopedia Girl
• 1943Warn That Man — Frances Lane

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1989Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do — Self
• 1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)