Jean Simmons

Jean Merilyn Simmons ( London , January 31 1929 - Santa Monica ( California ), January 22 2010 ) was an English - American actress. She is best known for the television series The Thorn Birds, where she is also an Emmy Award was for.



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 ==Career [  edit ] == When Jean Simmons as a teenager actress all garnered acclaim in such films as Kiss the Bride Goodbye, Caesar and Cleopatra and Great Expectationswas clear to film critics that they had a future in the film industry.
 * 1 Career
 * 2 Award
 * 3   Filmography (selection)

In 1950 Jean Simmons week from the United States, where they Stewart Granger met and later married him. He helped her to a two-year contract with the film company of Howard Hughes . With its role as murderess in Angel Face in 1952 they broke through to the general public. With Marlon Brando she played in Désirée directed by Henry Koster, the daughter of a French merchant who falls in love with Napoleon Bonaparte . Although her future seemed promising, Simmons is not really a star, although some claim was that her problems in her private life that had something to do with it. Between her and Stewart Granger hit it off no longer and left in 1960 to pronounce the divorce. She later remarried with film director Richard Brooks, with whom she had a daughter.

Jean Simmons died in early 2010 at the age of eighty in her home in Santa Monica. She suffered from lung cancer . ==[Award  edit ] == ==Filmography (selection) <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Officer of the Order of the British Empire
 * 1946 : Great Expectations ( David Lean )
 * 1947 : Black Narcissus ( Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger )
 * 1948 : Hamlet ( Laurence Olivier )
 * 1952 : Angel Face ( Otto Preminger )
 * 1953 : Young Bess ( George Sidney )
 * 1953 : The Robe ( Henry Koster )
 * 1953 : The Actress ( George Cukor )
 * 1954 : The Egyptian ( Michael Curtiz )
 * 1954 : Désirée ( Henry Koster )
 * 1955 : Guys and Dolls ( Joseph L. Mankiewicz )
 * 1958 : Home Before Dark ( Mervyn LeRoy )
 * 1958 : The Big Country ( William Wyler )
 * 1959 : This Earth is Mine ( Henry King )
 * 1960 : Elmer Gantry ( Richard Brooks )
 * 1960 : Spartacus ( Stanley Kubrick )
 * 1960 : The Grass is Greener ( Stanley Donen )