Celebrity Biographies
Jean Kent
Very famous in the United Kingdom, especially in the 40s and 50s, Jean Kent shared the screen with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe and starred in the legendary “The Browning Version”. The actress died on November 30, 2013, at the age of 92, in a hospital in Suffolk, in the east of England.
Writer and film critic Michael Thornton, a family friend, reported that Jean Kent had fallen last Thursday at her Westhorpe home, after which she had to be admitted. She had last appeared publicly in June 2011, when she was honored by the British Film Institute (BFI), on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
Born in Brixton, South London, on June 29, 1921, Joan Mildred Summerfield (her real name) was the only daughter of Norman Field and Nina Norre, a couple of variety actors. At a very young age she followed in her parents’ footsteps as a showgirl, and later she signed an acting contract with Gainsborough Pictures.
He debuted with a brief role in Who’s Your Father , followed by numerous titles, especially melodramas, such as The Madonna of the Seven Moons or The Magic Arch . She played the best-remembered role of hers in 1951, when she was the wife of Michael Redgrave ‘s character , a professor forced to retire, in The Browning Version (1951) , which was an international success, but mostly in Great Britain itself. . She also accompanied Marilyn Monroe when she moved to London to shoot The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier , where she played the conceited Maisie Springfield.
During the filming of Caravan , Jean Kent fell in love with a co-star, the Austrian with a short career as an actor Jusuf Ramart. She married him in April 1946, in a ceremony that featured the film’s protagonist, Stewart Granger , as her best man. They stayed together until her death in 1989.
Jean Kent was active until 1991, when she retired after a role on the series Shrinks . Since then she has remained hidden from public life.