Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons

Date of Birth: 31 Jan 1929

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 61 (Actor)

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    Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Set on Earth in the year 2065, an invasion threatens to extinguish the remains of mankind and quite possibly every living creature on the planet. The fate of all life on Earth relies on one woman's determination. But time is running out. (Columbia Tristar)
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    Howl\
    An amazing new animated adventure that celebrates the power of love to transform and the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of adversity. (Disney)
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    Black Narcissus
    Anglican nuns, led by the stern Sister Clodagh, attempt to establish a religious community in the Himalayas, and must battle not only suspicious locals and the elements, but their own demons as well. (imdb)
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    Guys and Dolls
    In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. (imdb)
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    Spartacus
    The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire. (imdb)
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    The Big Country
    A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land. (imdb)
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    Great Expectations
    A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. (imdb)
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    Hamlet
    In this film of the classic Shakespearean play, a Danish prince seeks to avenge his father's death when his uncle murders his father... (imdb)
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    Home Before Dark
    A wealthy but emotionally damaged woman is released from a sanitarium a year after suffering a mental breakdown. She returns to her home, shared with her husband, stepsister, stepmother, and maid. She attempts to start her life over again, but the home environment that caused her breakdown are still there. The lack of support from those closest to her threatens her fragile recovery.
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    How to Make an American Quilt
    Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt. (imdb)
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    Elmer Gantry
    Elmer Gantry, salesman, teams up with Sister Sharon Falconer, evangelist, to sell religion to America in the 1920's. They make enough money to build a temple, and Sister Sharon falls for Elmer. (imdb)
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    The Robe
    Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed. (imdb)
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    Angel Face
    When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur; but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out. (imdb)
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    Young Bess
    Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she has an unhappy love for admiral Thomas Seymour, and dreams of building a navy to match the Portuguese and the Spanish. (imdb)
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    Affair with a Stranger
    When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married. (imdb)
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    Desirée
    About the love affair between Napoleon and Desiree Clary
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    Rough Night in Jericho
    A former deputy and a strong-willed widow determine to stop a ruthless town boss. (imdb)
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    The Thorn Birds
    The Thorn Birds (1983) - TV Mini-Series
    This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart. Meggie tries to forget Ralph by marrying dashing stockman Luke O'Neill, but she and Ralph are soon reunited, with tragic consequences for them both.
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    Trio
    Consisting of three adaptations of W. Somerset Maugham short stories, this film follows the tales of a verger, a jewelery dealer, and the patients of a sanatorium.
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    So Long at the Fair
    Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother. (imdb)
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    The Egyptian
    In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty... (imdb)
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    The Actress
    Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City. (imdb)
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    Daisies in December
    A grumpy senior citizen dumped at a retirement home by his vacationing family finds love with a new acquaintance who hides a secret.
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    The Grass Is Greener
    Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle. (imdb)
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    Caesar and Cleopatra
    Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more tempting than he expected, since Cleopatra is a rare woman who is bright as well as beautiful. And for Cleopatra, a friendly relationship with the most powerful man in the world may pay dividends in the future. (imdb)
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    Androcles and the Lion
    Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the beast's paw, creating a friend for life. Androcles and a number of other Christians are evenutally arrested and condemned to death in the arena. They are to die by being eaten by lions. Is it too much to hope that one of the lions may have a paw that has healed recently and might remember who helped heal it? (imdb)
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    They Do It with Mirrors
    When Miss Marple is invited to the manor house of an old friend, it is not long before a puzzling murder puts her mind to work. (imdb)
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    Divorce American Style
    After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. After meeting other people, they are re-united at a night club where they realize that their marriage was better than their divorce. (imdb)
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    Until They Sail
    Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII. (imdb)
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    Dominique Is Dead
    A millionaire who has recently lost his wife starts believing that he is being haunted by her spirit. (imdb)
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    This Earth Is Mine
    In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Object: marriage to the heir of another vineyard, to further consolidate holdings in the Valley. But John Rambeau, Elizabeth's illegitimate cousin, has other ideas about who she should marry, and sharply opposes patriarch Philippe's refusal to sell wine grapes to bootleggers... (imdb)
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    Footsteps in the Fog
    To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go... (imdb)
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    The Clouded Yellow
    After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. (wikipedia.org)
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    The Happy Ending
    A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself. (imdb)
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    Mister Buddwing
    An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is. (imdb)
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    This Could Be the Night
    Anne Leeds is a school teacher who takes a part-time job as a secretary to an ex-bootlegger and horse playing gambler, Broadway nightclub owner with a heart of gold. She falls in love with his younger partner Tony Armotti, who is a typical playboy who can't stay with the same woman for a long period. Tony eventually fires her with the reason that she doesn't belong in a nightclub, but his older partner Rocco rehires her. Anne now tries to be useful and befriends a lot of important customers. (wikipedia.org)
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    Adam and Evelyne
    When a friend dies, a gambler adopts his daughter. Complications ensue. (imdb)
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    The Blue Lagoon
    Two children are shipwrecked on a desert-island and fall in love while growing up together. (imdb)
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    Hungry Hill
    Story of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years. (imdb)
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    North and South Book II
    The story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War. (imdb)
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    Life at the Top
    Joe Lampton thought he had really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law. Even so, he ignores an offer of a job in London and keeps away from attractive TV presenter Norah. When he finds his wife is having an affair, he reconsiders on both counts. But can he make it on his own ability down south? (imdb)
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    Uncle Silas
    An evil guardian plots the murder of his young heiress niece in this Victorian melodrama. (www.allmovie.com)
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    All the Way Home
    In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life. (imdb)
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    She Couldn\
    An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town. (TCM.com)
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    A Bullet Is Waiting
    A policeman and his prisoner survive the crash of the plane in the mountains in which they were traveling. They seek shelter in the lonely hut of a man and his daughter. (imdb)
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    Hilda Crane
    In this tearjerker, a woman, depressed with the course of her life after two failed marriages and a tepid career, decides to return to her hometown and find happiness with her ex-boyfriend. Unfortunately, his cruel and manipulative mother presents a formidable obstacle to their happiness. To prevent them from marrying, she at first fakes a heart attack, but then ends up dying of the real thing. The couple marries anyway, but the husband's happiness is marred by memories of his mother's death. (allmovie.com)
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    Dark Shadows
    Dark Shadows (1991) - TV Series
    Step inside the romantic but deadly world of "Dark Shadows," where love devours its victims and age-old secrets live to haunt eternity. (DVD)
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    Cage of Gold
    A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her "dead" husband comes back and tries to extort money from her. (imdb)
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    Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
    An old flame of Mason's is one of those being considered to fill a vacated government position. Now, her husband's approached by a man who says he knows his wife's secret and that if this secret should ever get out, her appointment might not push through. (imdb)
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    The Dawning
    An IRA gunman on the run from the government. He meets up with an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause. (imdb)
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    Give Us the Moon
    Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina. (imdb)
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    Heidi
    Heidi (1968) - TV Movie
    Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Jennifer Edwards, the then-10-year-old daughter of Blake Edwards and Patricia Walker, stars as the title character. (allrovi.com)
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    Inherit the Wind
    Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. (imdb)
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    Shadows in the Sun
    A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another. (imdb)
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    Meet Sexton Blake
    Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid. (imdb)
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    Going Undercover
    Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I.s to protect Marigold from Mr. Brilliant. His name, he's not. (imdb)
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    Immortal
    When three men learn an ancient secret for immortality, one defects to use it for evil. The other two must stop him before he lures their loved ones into a path of destruction. Set against the backdrops of small-town America, with a blend of vintage, 1980s Hong Kong action aesthetics, Immortal is a genre-blending, eccentric, supernatural thriller. (The Movie Database)
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    The Way to the Stars
    Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive... (imdb)
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    Kiss the Bride Goodbye
    Joan's (Patricia Medina) mother wants her to marry her pompous boss although she loves a soldier (Jimmy Handley).
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    The Woman in the Hall
    A poor widow with two daughters augments her income by using her children to extort money. Visiting the houses of the rich people, they tell a sad story and beg for help. Then she meets a wealthy man who proposes marriage to her.
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    Beggarman, Thief
    Sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man" is set in the '60s, and focuses on wannabe Hollywood filmmaker Gretchen, black-sheep Army officer Billy, and Billy's cousin Wesley, who's tracking his father's killer in France.
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