Jean Simmons
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Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after
Simmons in a 1955 studio publicity shot
Simmons at the 1948 Academy Awards, where she received her first Oscar nomination
Simmons with Victor Mature in Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Simmons with her first husband Stewart Granger in 1955
Stewart Granger
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Stewart Granger was a British film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame through his appearanc
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…a harpist in the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), produced by Gabriel Pascal, starring Vivien Leigh, and co-starring Simmons's future husband Stewart Granger. Simmons was cast as the young Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations (1946). The film was the third-most-popular at the British box…
Granger, c. 1970
Blue plaque to Granger in Bournemouth, Dorset
In a trailer for Young Bess (1953)
Dining with Ava Gardner in January 1950