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
Richard Brooks
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Richard Brooks was an American film director, screenwriter, journalist and novelist. He directed 24 feature films between 1950 and 1985, and was known for his portrayals of hard-hitting subject matter
Jean Simmons
…perhaps her finest performance as a housewife driven into a breakdown in Mervyn LeRoy's psychodrama." Simmons went into Elmer Gantry (1960), directed by Richard Brooks, who became her second husband. It was successful, as was Spartacus (1960), where she played Kirk Douglas's character's love interest. Simmons then did…
Brooks in 1986
Richard Brooks on set at MGM studios, 1950s
Brooks and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Brooks and Peter O'Toole on Lord Jim (1965) set in Cambodia