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  • Spartacus
  • Spartacus review by from Wolstenbury, Sussex
    Rated - 5 stars A true classic 14 May 2004
    ...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...  
  • Guys And Dolls
  • Guys And Dolls review by from Harlow, England
    Rated - 4 stars guys and dolls - a thoroughly modern musical 16 July 2004
    ...lising Hollywood silliness, but for musical lovers it has something to say, and Jean Simmons is an angel. ...  
  • Elmer Gantry
  • Elmer Gantry review by from west sussex
    Rated - 1 stars Elmer Sinks with a Fudd 27 June 2005
    ...it got lost along the way, with poor plot development, insipid performance from Jean Simmons, a manic and rather over-stylised (but Oscar-winning) star turn from Lancaster,...  

Jean Simmons - filmography


  • Her Own Rules on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Melissa Gilbert,  Jean Simmons,  Jeremy Sheffield
    Director: Bobby Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 300 members
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  • Dominique is Dead (1978)
    Starring: Cliff Robertson,  Jean Simmons,  Jenny Agutter
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 33% from 6 members
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  • Heidi on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  Jennifer Edwards,  Maximilian Schell
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 12 members
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  • Spartacus on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Laurence Olivier,  Jean Simmons
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 6,407 members
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  • Elmer Gantry on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Jean Simmons,  Dean Jagger
    Director: Richard Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 426 members
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  • The Big Country on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Carroll Baker,  Gregory Peck
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,279 member
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  • Footsteps In The Fog on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Stewart Granger,  Jean Simmons,  Bill Travers
    Director: Arthur Lubin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 26 members
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  • Guys And Dolls on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Jean Simmons,  Frank Sinatra
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,827 members
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  • The Robe on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Richard Burton,  Jean Simmons,  Michael Rennie
    Director: Henry Koster
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 489 members
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  • Angel Face on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Jean Simmons,  Mona Freeman
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 49 members
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  • The Clouded Yellow on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Barry Jones,  Trevor Howard,  Maxwell Reed
    Director: Ralph Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 61 members
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  • Hamlet on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Jean Simmons,  Laurence Olivier,  Stanley Holloway
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,470 member
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  • Hamlet - BLU-RAY Version (1948)
    Starring: Jean Simmons,  Laurence Olivier,  Stanley Holloway
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 6 members
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  • Great Expectations on DVD (1946)
    Starring: John Mills,  Alec Guinness,  Jean Simmons
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,302 members
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  • Shadows In The Sun
    Starring: Jean Simmons,  James Wilby,  Jamie Dornan
    Director: David Rocksavage
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 ..read more »
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    Due for release on 11th January 2010
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  • Thornbirds, The - Season 1 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Richard Chamberlain,  Rachel Ward,  Jean Simmons
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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. Please Note: Disc 1 and 2 are double-sided, please flip the disc over for the complete feature.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,970 member
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Jean Simmons - watch online


  • All The Way Home to Watch Now (1963)
    Starring: Jean Simmons,  Robert Preston,  Pat Hingle
    Director: Alex Segal
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 97 minutes
    A seven year old and his mother cope with his father's death in an auto accident. His grieving mother is in denial, and the rush of well-meaning relatives fails to help the situation. The boy observes the reaction of adults to the death of his father, taking refuge in the world and games of ..read more »
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Jean Simmons facts

5 most recent films

Her Own Rules - 3.0 stars
How To Make An American Quilt - 3.0 stars
Miss Marple - They Do it with Mirrors - 3.5 stars
Dominique is Dead - 2.0 stars
Heidi - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Spartacus - 4.0 stars
Great Expectations - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Spartacus - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Black Narcissus - 3.5 stars
Black Narcissus - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Shadows In The Sun - 3 stars
Dominique is Dead - 2.0 stars
Heidi - 2.5 stars
Divorce American Style - 2.5 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - Adam And Evelyne - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Torin Thatcher - 4 times - show films
Finlay Currie - 4 times - show films
Francis Sullivan - 4 times - show films
Stewart Granger - 4 times - show films
Laurence Olivier - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Lean - 3 times - show films
Laurence Olivier - 2 times - show films
Michael Powell - 2 times - show films
Emeric Pressburger - 2 times - show films
Arthur Crabtree - 2 times - show films