Jean Simmons (1929-2010) - A British beauty in many Hollywood movies

Fast Facts:

Birth name: Jean Merilyn Simmons

Birth date, place: 31 January 1929, Crouch Hill, London, England, UK

Death date, place: 22 January 2010, Santa Monica, Californa, USA

Height: 5'6"

Marriages: Stewart Granger (1950-1960), Richard Brooks (1960-1977)

Children: Kate Brooks, Tracy Granger

Awards: Emmy Award - outstanding supporting actress in a limited series or a special for The thorn birds; Golden Globe Award - best musical or comedy actress for Guys and dolls; Volpi Cup (Venice Film Festival) - best actress for Hamlet

FILMOGRAPHY:

Give us the moon 1944, dir: Val Guest

Mr. Emmanuel 1944, dir: Harold French

Kiss the bride goodbye 1945, dir: Paul L. Stein

Meet Sexton Blake 1945, dir: John Harlow

The way to the stars 1945, dir: Anthony Asquith

Caesar and Cleopatra 1945, dir: Gabriel Pascal

Great expectations 1946, dir: David Lean

Hungry Hill 1947, dir: Brian Desmond Hurst

Black narcissus 1947, dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Uncle Silas 1947, dir: Charles Frank

The woman in the hall 1947, dir: Jack Lee

Hamlet 1948, dir: Laurence Olivier

The blue lagoon 1949, dir: Frank Launder

Adam and Evelyne 1949, dir: Harold French

So long at the fair 1950, dir: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher

Trio 1950, dir: Ken Annakin, Harold French

Cage of gold 1950, dir: Basil Dearden

The clouded yellow 1950, dir: Ralph Thomas

Angel face 1952, dir: Otto Preminger

Androcles and the lion 1952, dir: Chester Erskine

Young Bess 1953, dir: George Sidney

Affair with a stranger 1953, dir: Roy Rowland

The robe 1953, dir: Henry Koster

The actress 1953, dir: George Cukor

She couldn't say no 1954, dir: Lloyd Bacon

The Egyptian 1954, dir: Michael Curtiz

A bullet is waiting 1954, dir: John Farrow

Desiree 1954, dir: Henry Koster

Footsteps in the fog 1955, dir: Arthur Lubin

Guys and dolls 1955, dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Hilda Crane 1956, dir: Philip Dunne

This could be the night 1957, dir: Robert Wise

Until they sail 1957, dir: Robert Wise

The big country 1958, dir: William Wyler

Home before dark 1958, dir: Mervyn LeRoy

This Earth is mine 1959, dir: Henry King

Elmer Gantry 1960, dir: Richard Brooks

Spartacus 1960, dir: Stanley Kubrick

The grass is greener 1960, dir: Stanley Donen

All the way home 1963, dir: Alex Segal

Life at the top 1964, dir: Ted Kotcheff

Mister Buddwing 1966, dir: Delbert Mann

Soldier in love 1967, dir: George Schaefer - TV movie

Divorce American style 1967, dir: Bud Yorkin

Rough night in Jericho 1967, dir: Arnold Laven

Heidi 1968, dir: Delbert Mann - TV movie

The happy ending 1969, dir: Richard Brooks

Say hello to yesterday 1971, dir: Alvin Rakoff

The Easter promise 1975, dir: Paul Bogart - TV movie

Mr. Sycamore 1975, dir: Pancho Kohner

The Dain curse 1978, dir: E. W. Swackhamer - TV mini series

Beggarman, thief 1979, dir: Lawrence Doheny - TV movie

Dominique 1980, dir: Michael Anderson

Golden Gate 1981, dir: Paul Wendkos

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the dolls 1981, dir: Walter Grauman - TV movie

A small killing 1981, dir: Steven Hilliard Stern - TV movie

The thorn birds 1983, dir: Daryl Duke - TV mini series

Midas Valley 1985, dir: Gus Trikonis - TV movie

North and South 1985, dir: Richard T. Heffron - TV mini series

North and South book II. 1986, dir: Kevin Connor - TV mini series

December flower 1987, dir: Stephen Frears - TV movie

Perry Mason - The case of the lost love 1987, dir: Ron Satlof - TV movie

Inherit the wind 1988, dir: David Greene - TV movie

Yellow pages 1988, dir: James Kenelm Clarke

A friendship in Vienna 1988, dir: Arthur Allan Seidelman - TV movie

The dawning 1988, dir: Robert Knights

Laker girls 1990, dir: Bruce Seth Green - TV movie

People like us 1990, dir: William Hale - TV movie

Great expectations 1989 - TV mini series

They do it with mirrors 1991, dir: Norman Stone - TV movie

One more mountain 1994, dir: Dick Lowry - TV movie

How to make an American quilt 1995, dir: Jocelyn Moorehouse

Daisies in December 1995, dir: Mark Haber - TV movie

Her own rules 1998, dir: Bobby Roth - TV movie

Winter solstice 2003, dir: Martyn Friend - TV movie

Shadows in the sun 2009, dir: David Rocksavage

QUOTES:

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.