Jean Simmons was a movie star ... She had shown that not only as Ophelia but earlier as the young Estella in David Lean's Great Expectations and the sensuous dancing girl in Black Narcissus.

Jean's jaw-dropping beauty often obscured a formidable acting talent.'' Paying tribute to Ms Simmons actor Edward Fox said: ''She was one of my pin ups when I was young. She was simply gorgeous ...

Jean Simmons ... and She Couldn't Say No. Simmons finally ended up suing Hughes for the right to make more prestigious films at other studios, and the result was Young Bess,as young Queen ...

Jean Simmons ... In 1952 Simmons won her freedom and signed a non-exclusive contract with 20th Century-Fox. She immediately starred in three prestigious movies. In MGM's Young Bess (1953) she ...

Image Jean Simmons held a trophy in London after she was voted Britain’s No. 1 film actress in 1950.Credit...Associated Press Hughes, whose affairs with young actresses were notorious ...

It did so in such films as The Robe (1953) and Désirée (1954 ... Evacuated to Somerset during the Second World War, the young Jean Simmons hankered after a stage career and, at the age of ...

LOS ANGELES — Jean Simmons, the lovely, ethereal film British star ... and the result was "Young Bess" (as young Queen Elizabeth I), "The Robe" (the first movie filmed in CinemaScope), "The Actress, ...

With her beguiling round-eyed beauty and demure British manners, Jean Simmons ... young Estella, she informed young Pip that "you may kiss me if you like" and a nation of schoolboys trembled in ...

Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and ...