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  Jean Simmons at Reel Classics
Jean Simmons began her career as a child actress in Britain where she became a favorite among critics and audiences before moving to Hollywood in the early 1950s.
Early in her career, before she had made a name for herself in film, Simmons was frequently referred to as a "Vivien Leigh look-alike," and the illustration on this poster shows why.
In BLACK NARCISSUS (1947), Simmons had a minor and rather unflattering role as Kanchi, a native girl whom Deborah Kerr and her fellow Anglican sisters try to convert from her promiscuous ways as they establish a mission high in the remote Himalayan mountains.
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Simmons/simmons.htm   (530 words)

  
 Jean Simmons at Reel Classics: Biography
JEAN MERILYN SIMMONS was born on January 31, 1929 to Charles Simmons, a gymnastics instructor and former Olympic athlete, and his wife, Winifred Ada (Loveland) Simmons.
Olivier was not put off however and, perhaps noting Jean's striking resemblance to his wife Vivien Leigh who had played Ophelia on stage with him ten years earlier, the actor-director eventually won her over to the role.
Though Jean and Marlon Brando were song-and-dance novices compared to co-stars Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine, Goldwyn decided not to dub their singing voices and the resulting effort received a "not bad" critical response and good box office returns.
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Simmons/simmons-bio.htm   (2290 words)

  
 Jean Simmons - Memory Alpha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Legendary actress Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929 in London, England) played the role of the retired Rear Admiral Norah Satie in TNG: "The Drumhead".
Simmons earned her first Academy Award nomination in 1949 for her role as "Ophelia" in Laurence Olivier's classic rendition of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1948).
Simmons won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role in the 1983 mini-series The Thorn Birds.
www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Jean_Simmons   (375 words)

  
 Jean Simmons, Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jean Simmons is the CRM e-Commerce Development Manager for General Motors of Canada.
Jean started her career with General Motors in 1971.
Jean holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.
www.terry.uga.edu /gmmr/judges/bios/simmons.html   (153 words)

  
 Jean Simmons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in Angel Face
Jean Merilyn Simmons (born January 31, 1929 in Crouch Hill, London, England, United Kingdom) is a British actress.
Simmons began acting while still in her teens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Simmons   (273 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Simmons happy to be heard
Jean Simmons spent the early part of her career being regarded as a great screen beauty.
Simmons and 33-year-old British actress Emily Mortimer actually split time as the voice of Sophie, a young hatmaker who's been cursed by an evil witch.
Simmons continued to lavish praise on Miyazaki, though she never really worked with him on the film.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600141908,00.html   (651 words)

  
 Jean Simmons | Biography (born 1929)
The beautiful female star of David Lean's Great Expectations, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Stanley Kubrick's Sparticus, Jean Simmons has played opposite the greatest actors of her generation.
Simmons was fourteen and her father warned her luck would not last.
Hamlet catapulted Simmons to international stardom; she was nominated for two Oscars and her face covered Time magazine.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Jean Simmons: Silver screen star
Jean Simmons was born in London in 1929, and had made her decision to be an actress by an early age.
Simmons also starred in epic Biblical film The Robe in 1953, a movie which has become a staple of Easter TV schedules.
Simmons continued to make films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including the Stanley Kubrick's Roman epic Spartacus with Kirk Douglas in 1960, as his lover Varinia.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2863461.stm   (630 words)

  
 Faculty
Prior to joining the Simmons Communications faculty, she served as President of the Festival of Ballet in Rhode Island.
Lynda Beltz is Professor of Communications at Simmons College, and is responsible for the institution and development of the College’s Master’s in Communications Management program.
Jean Corson Wolff, president of CorsonWolff Consulting, LLC, brings to her clients nearly 20 year of experience with for-profits and non-profit organizations.
www.simmons.edu /gradstudies/mcm/academics/faculty.shtml   (1917 words)

  
 Jean Simmons lends voice to 'Howl's' hag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The "Spartacus" and "Guys and Dolls" star lent her voice to Grandma Sophie in the English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki's enchanting film, which was released Friday and features the voice talents of Lauren Bacall, Christian Bale, Billy Crystal and Emily Mortimer.
Simmons said the filmmakers sent her a tape of the Japanese version of the movie "out of the blue" and asked her to star in the English version.
Simmons said she was fascinated by how she had to pace her lines with the movements of the character's mouth because it was originally drawn to match the elderly character's Japanese dialogue.
www.softcom.net /webnews/wed/ba/Uus-jeansimmons.R0Xr_FuC.html   (182 words)

  
 Jean Simmons - British Beauty
Jean Merilyn Simmons, the demure British beauty who still has legions of fans around the globe, has been a bright star in Hollywood for more than fifty years.
Simmons divorced Granger in 1960 and married writer-director Richard Brooks who cast her opposite Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry [1960].
Jean divorced Richard Brooks in 1977 and he passed away in 1992.
www.meredy.com /jeansimmons   (1030 words)

  
 Jean Simmons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1948, she was handpicked by Laurence Olivier to play the doomed Ophelia in his classic version of Hamlet and won a Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for her efforts.
During the '50s and '60s, Simmons had an extremely busy film career appearing in everything from costume epics to romances to musicals to straight dramas.
Simmons received an Oscar nomination in 1969 for The Happy Ending.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+65749   (197 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Young Bess [IMPORT]: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
There was nothing that would have induced Elizabeth to treat with her father the way Jean Simmons' character did with King Henry in the movie.
She lived for his approval and acceptance, and he was sufficiently impressed enough with her that he began her restoration and secured her succession to the throne in his will.
This film, released the week of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, is a highly fictionalized account of the early life of Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger had been married for three years at the time of this film's release.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6303120482   (1340 words)

  
 Simmons Family Genealogy
I had previously added the story of the Stultz-Simmons shooting in advance of the general update because of the interest in that event.
The identification of Benjamin Wilkes Simmons and Martha Hood as the parents of Williamson.
Those recollections came in conversations with myself and my late mother, Eleanor Jean Simmons Needham, to whom this work is dedicated.
jrm.phys.ksu.edu /simmons.html   (299 words)

  
 A Tribute to Jean Simmons
Jean presently lives in Santa Monica, California, and celebrated her 76th birthday in January, 2005.
Jean Simmons - British Beauty - Meredith Leonard has put together a tribute page to the actress who was unfortunately left off the AFI top 25 actresses list.
Jean Simmons: From Cricklewood to Hollywood - This extensive and entertaining tribute to Jean Simmons by Tim Wallace includes a biography, filmography, lots of gorgeous images, quotes, links, and more.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa112998.htm   (750 words)

  
 Jean Simmons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At the age of 14, Jean started her career in the film "Give Us the Moon." This led to bigger parts, in movies like "Great Expectations." Her career reached new heights after that.
Jean starred in the Sinatra musical "Guys and Dolls" (1955); Jean used her own singing voice and earned her first Golden Globe Award.
Writer and director Richard Brooks cast her in "Elmer Gantry." In 1967, Jean won acclaim portraying a hard-nosed, frontier businesswoman opposite Dean Martin in "Rough Night in Jericho." Jean continued making films well into the 1970s.
www.alanmercer.com /jeansimmons.htm   (157 words)

  
 Greece.com Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Locate Jean Simmons - $9.95 - Current address and phone available.
Elizabeth's Jean Simmons Page - Filmography, photos, brief biography of career highlights.
Jean Simmons - British Beauty - A salute to classic actress with images.
www.greece.com /directory/apexec.pl?etype=odp&passurl=/Arts/People/S/Simmons,_Jean   (184 words)

  
 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : Jean Simmons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It is my opinion that Miss Simmons is one of the most under rated and least honored actresses of our time.
Please, recognize the contribution this leading lady has made to the arts while she is still here to enjoy the honor.
Jean Simmons is the most solemn, wise, majestic, and beautiful actress that has graced the cinema.
www.oscarworld.net /awardlobby_read.asp?LobbyId=3936   (218 words)

  
 Jean Simmons (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jean Simmons, the demure British beauty was born January 31, 1929, in London...
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 Jean Simmons
Justin Cobb still sucks his thumb at the age of 17, but through the help of his orthodontist, played by Keanu Reeves, he discovers that's just a symptom of a much deeper problem.
The Sci-Fi friendly Cinescape has some news on an upcoming CGI feature that's based on the works of celebrated French artist Jean 'Mobeius' Girard: "Moebius' tale is about a physicist who accidentally becomes stranded on a faraway planet after he is transported via a space-time portal.
The film will feature the voices of Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Jean Simmons and Jonathan Taylor Thomas...The rights to "Through the Moebius Loop" have been picked up by Fantastic Films International, with animation being handled by the Hong Kong studio GDC Entertainment." more...
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/jean_simmons/news.php   (502 words)

  
 IMDb Name Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Joan Simmons (I) (Miscellaneous Crew, The BFG (1989))
Joanna Simmons (I) (Actress, Pass the Ammo (1988))
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 channel4.com/film - Jean Simmons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jean Simmons' beauty and grace saw her plucked from dance school, at the tender age of fourteen, to appear in Give Us The Moon (1944), but achieved wider popularity as a young Estella in Great Expectations (1946).
Her stardom was sealed when Laurence Olivier selected her to play Ophelia in his screen adaptation of Hamlet two years later, winning her Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and an Oscar nomination.
Simmons remained in demand throughout the sixties, culminating in another Oscar nomination for The Happy Ending (1969).
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/person.jsp?id=22605   (200 words)

  
 Jean Simmons Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Edmund Purdom, Michael Wilding, Peter Ustinov, John Carradine, Carl Benton Reid, Tommy Rettig, Henry Daniell.
Starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, Sheldon Leonard, Regis Toomey, Robert Keith, B S Pully, George E Stone.
Starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Jay Robinson, Michael Rennie, Richard Boone, Dawn Addams, Dean Jagger, Torin Thatcher, Betta St John.
www.tv-now.com /stars/simmons.html   (475 words)

  
 Jean Simmons -- From Cricklewood to Hollywood
This web site was created as a tribute to Jean Simmons, one of the most beautiful and talented actresses ever to appear on the silver screen.
My hope is that Jean Simmons fans the world over will enjoy the site and that those of you who are unfamiliar with Jean will be curious enough to become familiar with her films and career.
My intent for this web site is only to provide information about the life and career of Jean Simmons, who I feel has been one of Hollywood's greatest treasures for more than fifty years.
www.geocities.com /clannad47   (229 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Jean Simmons
Simmons, Jean, born in 1929, English motion-picture actor.
Of elegant appearance, Simmons played Ophelia in English actor, producer, and director...
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 eBay - jean simmons, DVD, Movie Memorabilia items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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Jean Simmons THE BLUE LAGOON (1949) Donald Houston VHS
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 Jean Simmons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out.
Starring: Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr and David Farrar
Anglican nuns, led by the stern Sister Clodagh, attempt to establish a religious community in the Himalayas, and must battle not only suspicious locals and the elements, but their own demons as well.
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 Meredy's Jean Simmons Trivia Mania
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Director: Laurence Olivier; Stars: Jean Simmons; Release Date: September 26, 1995
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