Jean Kent

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 Kents 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 Gainsboroughs 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 Rakes Progress 1945 Kent continued to have success in films Her favorite film was musical Trottie True 1949 where she played the lead Kents 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 Bluebeards 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia