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Jean Kent
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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.
Kent played another sexually aggressive girl in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) with Calvert and Granger. It was a big hit. Rank borrowed her to support Rex Harrison in The Rake's Progress (1945).
Kent continued to have success in films. Her favorite film was musical Trottie True (1949) where she played the lead.
As actor
Missing Persons
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
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
The Reluctant Widow
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