Jean Kent
Acting

Jean Kent

Born 29 June 1921 · Brixton, London, England, UK · Died 30 November 2013

Jean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress. She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. Kent's 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 Gainsborough's backup to Margaret Lockwood.

Known for

The Prince and the Showgirl
Bonjour Tristesse
The Browning Version
Shout at the Devil
Grip of the Strangler
The Wicked Lady
The Woman in Question
Waterloo Road
Please Turn Over
Good-Time Girl
Madonna of the Seven Moons
The Rake's Progress
Missing Persons
Shout at the Devil
K Is for Killing
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Please Turn Over
Web of Evidence
Bonjour Tristesse
Grip of the Strangler
The Prince and the Showgirl
Before I Wake
The Big Frame
The Browning Version
The Woman in Question
Her Favourite Husband
Trottie True
Good-Time Girl
Bond Street
Sleeping Car to Trieste
The Loves of Joanna Godden
The Man Within
The Magic Bow
Carnival
Caravan
The Rake's Progress
The Wicked Lady
Waterloo Road
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Champagne Charlie
Fanny by Gaslight
Two Thousand Women
Bees in Paradise
Soldier, Sailor
Warn That Man
Miss London Ltd.
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