Jean Simmons was one of the great beauties of British ... In 1950 she topped a poll as the most popular British actress. Shortly afterwards, she went to Hollywood, where she and Deborah Kerr ...

Jean Simmons is remembered as a luminary of the silver screen, but, according to her daughter Kate Brooks, she played her most cherished role behind the scenes — as a doting mother and wife.

Jean Simmons, the English actress who made the covers of Time and Life magazines by the time she was 20 and became a major midcentury star alongside strong leading men like Laurence Olivier ...

Jean Simmons, whose ethereal screen presence and starring roles with Hollywood's top actors made her a mid-century film icon, has died at age 80. The actress, who sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys ...

That was followed by the exotic "Black Narcissus," and then Olivier's Oscar-winning "Hamlet" in 1948, for which Simmons was nominated as best supporting actress. She would be nominated for another ...

Jean Simmons was a movie star ... But it soon became clear that he was interested in her not just as an actress, but as a woman. In later life she denied this, saying that Hughes 'had never ...

LOS ANGELES — Jean Simmons, a radiant British actress who as a teenager appeared opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet” and emerged a star whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s ...

Jean Simmons, a radiant British actress who as a teenager appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet” and emerged a star whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s in such films as ...

Jean Simmons, the lovely ... She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Hamlet in 1948.She would be nominated for another Oscar, for best actress for1969's The Happy Ending ...

In 1946, a teenaged British actress by the name of Jean Simmons played the beautiful Estella Havisham in the film adaptation of Charles Dickens` novel ”Great Expectations.” Now, more than four ...

Jean Simmons, the lovely ... minor films followed before British director David Lean gave the London-born actress her breakthrough role of Estella, companion to the reclusive Miss Havisham ...