Jean Simmons

Highest Rated: 100% Divorce American Style (1967)

Lowest Rated: 20% Life at the Top (1965)

Birthday: Jan 31, 1929

Birthplace: Crouch Hill, London, England, UK

Father, Charles Simmons, was a gymnast for Great Britain in the 1912 Olympics, bringing home a bronze medal in the men's team event. Discovered at age 14 while attending dancing school with her older sister. Earned her first Oscar nomination at 18 for her portrayal of Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet. Voted the most popular actress in Britain in 1950. Fought against Hollywood giant Howard Hughes' ownership of her contract, finally winning her freedom in 1952. Was made an OBE in 2003 for her contributions to British cinema. Died of lung cancer nine days before her 81st birthday.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Thru the Moebius Strip	Shepway	—	2010
25%	Shadows in the Sun	Hannah	—	2009
No Score Yet	Death of Two Sons	Actor	—	2006
44%	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Council Member No. 2	—	2001
No Score Yet	On Cukor	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Secret Affair	Katherine Stratten	—	1999
No Score Yet	Daisies in December	Katherine Palmer	—	1995
62%	How to Make an American Quilt	Em	—	1995
No Score Yet	People Like Us	Peach	—	1990
No Score Yet	The Dawning	Aunt Mary	—	1988
No Score Yet	A Friendship in Vienna	Narrator	—	1988
No Score Yet	Going Undercover	Maxine de la Hunt	—	1988
No Score Yet	Inherit the Wind	Lucy Brady	—	1988
No Score Yet	Undercover	Actor	—	1988
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love	Laura Kilgallen	—	1987
No Score Yet	A Moment in Time	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	A Small Killing	Actor	—	1981
No Score Yet	Dominique (Avenging Spirit) (Dominique Is Dead)	Dominique Ballard	—	1979
No Score Yet	The Dain Curse	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	Mr. Sycamore	Estelle Benbow	—	1975
No Score Yet	Say Hello to Yesterday	Woman	—	1971
33%	The Happy Ending	Mary Wilson	—	1969
No Score Yet	Heidi	Fräulein Rottenmeier	—	1968
No Score Yet	Violence à Jericho	Molly Lang	—	1967
100%	Divorce American Style	Nancy Downes	—	1967
No Score Yet	Mister Buddwing	The Blonde	—	1966
20%	Life at the Top	Susan Lampton	—	1965
No Score Yet	All the Way Home	Mary Follet	—	1963
93%	Spartacus	Varinia	—	1960
94%	Elmer Gantry	Sister Sharon Falconer/Katy Jones	—	1960
88%	The Grass Is Greener	Hattie Durant	—	1960
No Score Yet	This Earth Is Mine	Actor	—	1959
No Score Yet	Home Before Dark	Charlotte Bronn	—	1958
100%	The Big Country	Julie Maragon	—	1958
67%	Until They Sail	Barbara Leslie Forbes	—	1957
No Score Yet	This Could Be the Night	Anne Leeds	—	1957
No Score Yet	Hilda Crane	Hilda Crane	—	1956
No Score Yet	Footsteps in the Fog	Lily Watkins	—	1955
91%	Guys and Dolls	Sarah Brown	—	1955
No Score Yet	Desiree	Desiree Clary	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Egyptian	Merit	—	1954
75%	Demetrius and the Gladiators	in film clip from THE ROBE	—	1954
No Score Yet	She Couldn't Say No	Korby Lane	—	1954
No Score Yet	A Bullet Is Waiting	Cally Canham	—	1954
60%	The Actress	Ruth Gordon Jones	—	1953
32%	The Robe	Diana	—	1953
No Score Yet	Affair With a Stranger	Carolyn Parker	—	1953
No Score Yet	Young Bess	Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)	—	1953
43%	Androcles and the Lion	Lavinia	—	1953
75%	Angel Face	Diane Tremayne Jessup	—	1952
No Score Yet	So Long at the Fair	Vicky Barton	—	1951
No Score Yet	Uncle Silas	Actor	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Clouded Yellow	Sophie Malraux	—	1951
No Score Yet	Trio	Evie Bishop [Sanatorium]	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Blue Lagoon	Emmeline Foster	—	1949
No Score Yet	Adam and Evelyne (Adam and Evalyn)	Evelyne Wallace	—	1949
95%	Hamlet	Ophelia	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Woman in the Hall	Joy Blake	—	1948
No Score Yet	Hungry Hill	Jane Brodrick	—	1947
100%	Black Narcissus	Kanchi	—	1947
100%	Great Expectations	Young Estella	—	1947
No Score Yet	Caesar and Cleopatra	Harpist	—	1945
No Score Yet	Meet Sexton Blake	Eva Watkins	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Way to the Stars	Singer	—	1945
No Score Yet	Mr. Emmanuel	Bit Part	—	1944
No Score Yet	Olivier's Shakespeare	Actor	—	1944

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	American Masters 2001	Narrator	2000
No Score Yet	Xena: Warrior Princess 1995-2001	Varinia	1996
No Score Yet	In the Heat of the Night 1988-1995	Actor	1994 1991
50%	Dark Shadows 1991	Elizabeth Collins Stoddard/Naomi Collins	1991
91%	Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987-1994	Adm. Nora Satie	1991
No Score Yet	American Playhouse 1982-1996	Actor	1990
No Score Yet	Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996	Eudora	1989
No Score Yet	The Odd Couple 1970-1975	Princess	1972
83%	Angel Falls 1993	Irene Larson
No Score Yet	The Thorn Birds 1983	Fiona `Fee' Cleary

Quotes from Jean Simmons' Characters

Sarah Brown:	It's so delicious. That Bacardi flavoring certainly makes a difference.
Sarah Brown:	You know, this would be a wonderful way to get children to drink milk.

Lily Watkins:

Do you remember the last ambulance when I said it should've been me? I wish it had been.

Sarah Brown:	What did you order?
Sky Masterson:	Dolce de leche. Dolce is the spanish word for sweet; de means of; and leche means milk.
Sky Masterson:	Dolce de leche. Dolce is the spanish word for sweet. De means of and leche means milk.
Sarah Brown:	Don't they serve it plain?
Sky Masterson:	Well, only in the mornings. It has to do with the heat. You see, at night they put a kind of preservative in it.
Sarah Brown:	That's interesting. What do they use?
Sky Masterson:	Bacardi.
Sarah Brown:	Bacardi - doesn't that have alcohol in it?
Sarah Brown:	Bacardi? Doesn't that have alcohol in it?
Sky Masterson:	Well just enough to keep the milk from turning sour.

Sarah Brown:

I'm prepared to believe that you're the biggest sinner I've ever met in my life!

Richard Harmon:	Why do we have to go through that again? So you've been divorced for eight years. You've dated a lot of guys.
Nancy Downes:	So?
Richard Harmon:	So, why can't this be like all the others? Why does it have to be different? Why pick on me?
Nancy Downes:	Cuz this time I care. So Richard, we have to move this to the next plateau.

Pat Terrill:	Hello, throw something off a chair and sit down. Would you like to try a cigarette?
Julie Maragon:	Where'd you get those?
Pat Terrill:	In the east. Don't look so shocked. I saw a woman smoking one; very elegant. [inhales - exhales] Oh well, I don't care about anything anyway.
Pat Terrill:	In the east. Don't look so shocked. I saw a woman smoking one. Very elegant. Oh well, I don't care about anything anyway.

Varinia:

And neither am I!

Estella as a girl:	He calls the knaves "jacks"!
Estella as a girl:	He calls the knaves 'jacks'!

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