Jean Merilyn Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010)One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Great Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onward. Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hamlet (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Guys and Dolls (1955). Other notable film appearances included Young Bess (1953), The Robe (1953), Elmer Gantry (1960), Spartacus (1960), and the 1969 film The Happy Ending, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. . She took some years off screen before returning in All the Way Home (1963) with Robert Preston. She did Life at the Top (1965) with Laurence Harvey, Mister Buddwing (1966) with James Garner, Divorce American Style (1967) with Dick Van Dyke and Rough Night in Jericho (1967) with George Peppard and Dean Martin. She also won an Emmy Award for the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds. Simmons was married twice, to actor Stewart Granger , and then writer and director Richard Brooks. Both marriages ended in divorce, she had one child in each marriage. She died from lung cancer on January 22, 2010, at age 80.
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