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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 from Harlow, England
guys and dolls - a thoroughly modern musical 16 July 2004
review by from west sussex
Elmer Sinks with a Fudd 27 June 2005
Jean Simmons - filmography
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Shadows In The Sun
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan
Director: David Rocksavage
Certificate: 
Set in a remote house on the East Anglian coast in the 1960's, Hannah (British-born Hollywood actress Jean Simmons - Spartacus) lives a perfectly happy life with her poetry, garden and much younger friend Joe (Jamie Dornan)
When Hannah's son, Robert (James Wilby) arrives with his teenage daughter ..read more »
 
52%
from 163 members
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Howl's Moving Castle
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Certificate: 
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.
79%
from 25,685 members
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Her Own Rules
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Melissa Gilbert, Jean Simmons, Jeremy Sheffield
Director: Bobby Roth
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Meredith Sanders returns to the English village where she was born to find her that her friend Agnes is dying and her mother is still alive. A chain of events follows propelling Meredith on a journey enabling her to find the courage to love again... Based on the novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
55%
from 332 members
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The Thornbirds - Season 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Jean Simmons
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Australian drama set in the out-back, where a priest called Father Ralph De Bricassart and Maggie Cleary come to know a forbidden love. Based on the novel by Colleen McCullough. Made for television.
70%
from 2,263 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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Heidi
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Jennifer Edwards, Maximilian Schell
Director: Delbert Mann
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This is a made-for-television version of Johanna Spyri's timeless classic about a young orphan girl named Heidi living with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. At first Heidi finds him to be a cold and distant man, but soon her heartwarming nature sheds light and a newfound happiness on her once ..read more »
62%
from 34 members
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Divorce American Style
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards
Director: Bud Yorkin
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In this dark Norman Lear comedy about the debilitating process of divorce, an average American ex-couple (Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds) realise that, after matchmaking hell, alimony-avoiding schemes, and commiserations with fellow divorcees, married life doesn't seem so bad.
51%
from 59 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 »
35%
from 2 members
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Life At The Top
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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Laurence Harvey turns in an excellent performance in this sequel to the highly successful Room At The Top which follows the life of a social climber whose self-doubt tarnishes his success. With his marriage to the boss' daughter on the rocks, Harvey finds himself embroiled in an affair with a ..read more »
62%
from 25 members
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The Grass Is Greener
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Donen
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When American millionaire Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum) stumbles into the private quarters of Victor (Cary Grant) and Hilary (Deborah Kerr), an English aristocratic couple who allow public tours through their stately mansion, he brings a whirlwind of trouble with him. Hilary's dissatisfaction ..read more »
64%
from 242 members
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Spartacus - Blu-ray
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
78%
from 52 members
Not available for rental
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Spartacus - HD
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
74%
from 238 members
Not currently released
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Spartacus
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
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 »
75%
from 7,670 members
Not currently released
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Elmer Gantry
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger
Director: Richard Brooks
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Elmer Gantry is a charming, fast-talking con, working the road as a traveling salesman in the 1920s. Burt Lancaster stars as the elusive Gantry in this charismatic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel. When Gantry runs across a group of traveling evangelists, he charms their saintly leader, ..read more »
69%
from 591 members
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The Big Country
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors, Alfonso Bedoya
Director: William Wyler
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Wyler's powerful Western covers a lot of territory with Gregory Peck a fish out of water as a sea captain who travels west to marry and settle, but finds himself in the middle of a bitter dispute over water rights and a jealous clash with the ranch foreman (Charlton Heston). He also discovers his ..read more »
71%
from 1,546 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 200 members
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Guys And Dolls
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Sheldon Leonard, B. S. Pully, Marlon Brando
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Based on the Broadway show from the Damon Runyon short story and filled to the brim with Frank Loesser tunes such as "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," this outrageously comic film featuring Marlon Brando's bold musical debut is a colorful tale about gamblers, a feisty ..read more »
68%
from 3,366 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 »
60%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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The Robe
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Jay Robinson, Ernest Thesiger
Director: Henry Koster
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THE ROBE is one of the finest Biblical epics of all time, based on a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. The film tells the story of a Roman, played by Richard Burton, who was in charge of the Crucifixion of Christ and who later is converted to Christianity. This was the first movie to be ..read more »
66%
from 648 members
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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 »
85%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Androcles And The Lion
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young
Director: Chester Erskine
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George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. And Pascal's final Shaw production ..read more »
53%
from 20 members
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Angel Face
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Director: Otto Preminger
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Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons team in this outstanding example of classic Noir. Directed by Otto Preminger (Laura, The Man with The Golden Arm). Mitchum is at his best as Frank Jessup, an ambulance driver, driven and ensnared by Simmons who demonstrates her own brilliant talents in this ..read more »
68%
from 265 members
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The Clouded Yellow
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Barry Jones, Trevor Howard, Maxwell Reed
Director: Ralph Thomas
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A retired spy takes a job cataloguing butterflies in the English countryside but is pulled into fresh intrigue when an innocent young local woman is accused of murder. A superior Hitchcockian thriller starring the eminently watchable Trevor Howard, THE CLOUDED YELLOW is British cinema at its best.
66%
from 260 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
Director: Laurence Olivier
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In the opening scene of Hamlet, Laurence Olivier describes the play in a voice-over as "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind". But Olivier's screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. The contradictions and ambiguities of the title ..read more »
65%
from 1,778 member
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Hamlet - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Before Kenneth Branagh, before Mel Gibson, Laurence Olivier gave the definitive portrayal of 'the man who could not make up his mind'. In 15th-century Denmark, young Prince Hamlet is racked by torment and indecision after seeing a vision of his deceased father. The late king's ghost informs his son ..read more »
70%
from 43 members
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Great Expectations - Blu-ray
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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Lean's definitive version of the Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years ..read more »
75%
from 334 members
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later ..read more »
72%
from 5,375 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...
