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Guys and Dolls' Simmons dies -
24 January 2010
-Guys And Dolls actress Jean Simmons has died at the age of 80.-
-The British star, who had been suffering from lung cancer for some time, passed away at her home in Santa Monica, California on Friday (22Jan10), a week before her 81st birthday, according to her agent.
Jean Simmons - what members say
review by from Wolstenbury, Sussex
A true classic 14 May 2004
review by roncoach from
One of the best Westerns........a film to watch whether you like the genre or not 24 October 2011
review by from Harlow, England
guys and dolls - a thoroughly modern musical 16 July 2004
Jean Simmons - filmography
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Shadows In The Sun
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ophelia Lovibond, Raymond Waring, Toby Marlow
Director: David Rocksavage
Certificate: 
A stranger proves to be the catalyst for a family who have lost their way, in this tale set on the Norfolk coast in the 1960s. After a life spent enjoying the cultural highlights with her late diplomat husband, Hannah (Jean Simmons) is content to while away her days in her remote Norfolk house ..read more »
 
53%
from 177 members
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Howl's Moving Castle
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Akio Ohtsuka, Haruko Kato
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Certificate: 
Sophie, a diligent teenage girl working in her family's hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when a handsome-but-mysterious wizard named Howl sweeps her off her feet. This innocent encounter enrages the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste, who transforms Sophie into a 90-year-old woman. ..read more »
79%
from 26,730 members
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Her Own Rules
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jeremy Sheffield, Melissa Gilbert, Jean Simmons
Director: Bobby Roth
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Hotel chain owner Meredith Sanders (Melissa Gilbert) makes a shocking discovery when she returns to the English village where she grew up. After visiting her ailing friend, Agnes, Meredith discovers that her mother, whom she believed long dead, is in fact still alive. The inevitable confrontation ..read more »
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from 339 members
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The Thornbirds - Season 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Ken Howard, Richard Chamberlain, Jean Simmons
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The entire mini-series (based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough) following the fortunes of the Cleary family, whose lives are touched by a seemingly unalterable destiny. The story spans generations and continents and deals with the relationship between an ambitious priest (Richard ..read more »
70%
from 2,315 members
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Dominique is Dead
(1978)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter
Director: Michael Anderson
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Wealthy and greedy David Ballard wants his wife Dominique out of his life... permanently. He begins subjecting her to cruel mind games, hoping to drive the poor woman insane. Convinced that she is actually being tortured by malevolent spirits, Dominique is eventually pushed to suicide. Far from ..read more »
30%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Say Hello To Yesterday
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Leonard Whiting, Jean Simmons
Director: Alvin Rakoff
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1970s' comedy drama about an unlikely romance. Jean Simmons plays a housewife who is bored with her marriage to a stocks analyst (John Lee). While shopping in London, a young man (Leonard Whiting), notices the mature women and is instantly attracted to her. He chases her around town and finally ..read more »
60%
from 23 members
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Heidi
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Jennifer Edwards
Director: Delbert Mann
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Children's adventure based on the classic book by Johanna Spyri. Young Heidi (Emma Bolger) is sent to live with her bad-tempered grandfather (Max von Sydow) in the mountains, and before long she has managed to cheer him up. But when Heidi is forced to become a companion to a young invalid girl, she ..read more »
62%
from 36 members
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Divorce American Style
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Joe Flynn, Dick Van Dyke
Director: Bud Yorkin
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Classic comedy starring Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds as Richard and Barbara Harmon, a typical American couple, together for 17 years. But lately things have become too predictable and stale. The once loving couple spends their evenings arguing, their marriage quickly unravelling. They visit a ..read more »
52%
from 65 members
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Rough Night in Jericho
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Dean Martin, George Peppard, Jean Simmons
Director: Arnold Laven
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Back in the saddle after such triumphs as Texas Across the River and The Sons of Katie Elder. Dean Martin hits the dusty road once again for another extraordinary Western adventure. It's the lawless Old West. One time lawman Alex Flood (Martin) is now the ruthless boss of the town of Jericho, a ..read more »
56%
from 13 members
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Life At The Top
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Frances Cosslett, Margaret Johnston, George A. Cooper
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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Sequel to 'Room at the Top' (1959), following a northern man who heads to London in search of a change in fortune. Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has it made. He has married his boss's daughter, Susan (Jean Simmons), and looks forward to a settled life of advancement within the company and ..read more »
66%
from 48 members
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The Grass Is Greener
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant
Director: Stanley Donen
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A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's Stately Homes of England is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ..read more »
64%
from 262 members
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Elmer Gantry
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Edward Andrews, Burt Lancaster, Dean Jagger
Director: Richard Brooks
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Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation ..read more »
69%
from 630 members
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Spartacus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the ..read more »
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from 7,965 members
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Spartacus - Blu-ray
(1960)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's star-studded, historical epic concerns the efforts of the slave-gladiator Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) to lead the slaves of the Roman Empire in a rebellion against their masters. The ranks quickly swell as the slave army makes its way across Italy towards the coast. But the despotic ..read more »
77%
from 139 members
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The Big Country
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Charles Bickford, Chuck Hayward, Carroll Baker
Director: William Wyler
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When sea-captain Jim McKay (Gregory Peck) forgoes a life on the ocean waves and travels west to claim his bride Patricia Terrill (Carroll Baker), he finds more trouble than he bargained for. The Terrill clan are embroiled in a bitter feud over water rights with a rival family headed by Rufus ..read more »
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from 1,622 member
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Footsteps In The Fog
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
Director: Arthur Lubin
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Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons star in this compelling thriller set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London. As he buries his wife in a rain-soaked London churchyard, Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) thinks he has committed the perfect murder. He's wrong. His quick-witted young maid Lily (..read more »
69%
from 243 members
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Guys And Dolls
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: B. S. Pully, She, Vivian Blaine
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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A romantic gangster musical starring Frank Sinatra and a singing Marlon Brando. Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) is a New York gambler who needs $1000 in order to stage a big game during the Prohibition era. To get the money, he issues a typically enigmatic challenge to master gambler Sky Masterson (Brando)..read more »
68%
from 3,493 members
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The Robe
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Torin Thatcher, Ernest Thesiger, Dean Jagger
Director: Henry Koster
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Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) is a Roman centurion who wins the robe of the crucified Christ while gambling at the foot of the cross. At first insensitive to the beliefs of the new Christian church, Marcellus' possession of the robe soon begins to have a profound effect upon both him and his ..read more »
66%
from 685 members
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The Actress
(1953)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright
Director: George Cukor
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In 1914 Wallacestone (located outside of Boston), the Joneses are just making ends meet, and only if parents, Clinton and Annie, watch every cent that they spend. However, their seventeen year old daughter, Ruth, has no such concerns as she is single minded in her pursuit of wanting to become a ..read more »
57%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Young Bess
(1953)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton
Director: George Sidney, george sidney (2)
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The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch - the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her ..read more »
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from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Angel Face
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Morgan Farley, Leon Ames
Director: Otto Preminger
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Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled ..read more »
68%
from 318 members
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Androcles And The Lion
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Newton
Director: Chester Erskine
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1953 comedy starring Alan Young as Androcles, a Christian in ancient Rome. Androcles is a slave on the run from the Roman Empire when he comes across an injured lion. He assists the lion but is later caught by the Roman guards and is to be thrown to the lions in the colosseum. However, when the ..read more »
55%
from 26 members
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The Clouded Yellow
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Maxwell Reed, Trevor Howard, Barry Jones
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Early 1950s British thriller starring Trevor Howard as David Somers, an ex Secret Service agent who takes on a quiet job at a country estate cataloguing butterflies. However, he is unable to keep a low profile for long: his employer's beautiful niece Sophie (Jean Simmons) is framed for a murder she ..read more »
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from 296 members
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Hamlet - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Laurence Olivier directs and stars in this adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Hamlet (Olivier), Prince of Denmark, is still mourning over the death of his father and his mother Gertrude's (Eileen Herlie) subsequent remarriage to Hamlet's despised uncle, Claudius (Basil Sydney), who is now ..read more »
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from 60 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval ..read more »
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from 1,852 member
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Black Narcissus
(1946)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered ..read more »
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from 2,511 members
Not available for rental
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »
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from 5,615 members
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Great Expectations - Blu-ray
(1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »
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from 391 members
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Jean Simmons facts
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...ome and destroyed several legions along the way. Great support comes from lover Jean Simmons, nemesis Laurence Olivier, hero worshipping Tony Curtis, senator Charles Laught...
