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[h3]The beautiful female star of David Lean's 'Great Expectations', Lawrence Olivier's 'Hamlet' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus', Jean Simmons has played opposite the greatest actors of her generation during a career that has spanned six decades.[/h3]

Producer Val Guest lifted Simmons out of a dancing school, in the dreary suburb of Cricklewood, after she had attended just two weeks tuition. Guest saw in Simmons the fresh face needed for his upcoming film 'Give Us the Moon'. Simmons was fourteen and her father warned that her luck would not last. He was wrong.

Simmons' beauty and genuine, if untrained, talent carried her from success to success. In 1946, she played Estella in 'Great Expectations', alongside soon to be famous actors John Mills and Alec Guinness.

Two years later, [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/209:0/Laurence_Olivier.htm]Lawrence Olivier[/urlnew], desperate that she play Ophelia in his new production of 'Hamlet', pleaded with Rank organisation (to whom she was contracted) for 30 days of her time. They agreed.

'Hamlet' catapulted Simmons to international stardom; she was nominated for two Oscars and her face covered Time magazine. Next she went to Fiji to make 'The Blue Lagoon'.

Married to swashbuckling actor Stewart Granger in 1950, the couple moved to Hollywood, and had a daughter six years later. The union lasted a decade.

Ignoring the fact Simmons was married, [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/485:0/Howard_Hughes.htm]Howard Hughes[/urlnew] wanted her. He bought her contract and then tried to force her to sign a new one when it expired. Simmons refused. Hughes tried to wreck her career, threatening to sue other studios should they hired her. The matter was finally settled out of court.

Simmons married the writer-director Richard Brook in 1960, staying off screen for a few years until 'Spartacus'.

She continued to work through out the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's, in film and television. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
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Becoming depressed at the lack of quality parts being offered to her, Jean became addicted to alcohol. In 1986, she sought professional treatment.

Jean was made an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to acting in the 2003 New Year Honours List.

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Through the Moebius Strip (2004)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

Sensibility and Sense (1990)

Laker Girls (1990)

The Dawning (1988)

Yellow Pages (1988)

North and South II (1986)

North and South (1985)

Midas Valley (1985)

December Flower (1984)

The Thorn Birds (1983)

A Small Killing (1981)

Dominique (1978)

Mr. Sycamore (1975)

Say Hello to Yesterday (1971)

The Happy Ending (1969)

Soldier in Love (1967) (TV)

Rough Night in Jericho (1967)

Divorce American Style (1967)

Mister Buddwing (1966)

Life at the Top (1965)

All the Way Home (1963)

The Grass Is Greener (1960)

Spartacus (1960)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

This Earth Is Mine (1959)

Home Before Dark (1958)

The Big Country (1958)

Until They Sail (1957)

This Could Be the Night (1957)

Hilda Crane (1956)

Guys and Dolls (1955)

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Desirée (1954)

A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)

The Egyptian (1954)

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

She Couldn't Say No (1954)

The Actress (1953)

The Robe (1953)

Affair with a Stranger (1953)

Young Bess (1953)

Androcles and the Lion (1952)

Angel Face (1952)

The Clouded Yellow (1951)

Trio (1950)

Cage of Gold (1950)

So Long at the Fair (1950)

Adam and Evelyne (1949)

The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Hamlet (1948)

Uncle Silas (1947)

The Woman in the Hall (1947)

Hungry Hill (1947)

Black Narcissus (1947)

Great Expectations (1946)

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

The Way to the Stars (1945)

Meet Sexton Blake (1945)

Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)

Sports Day (1944)

Mr. Emmanuel (1944)

Give Us the Moon (1944)
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