Jean Simmons
Trivia of Jean Simmons (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010)
*When she was teenager, she was an acrobatic dancer.When a British film director Val Guest spotted the teenaged Simmons and knew he had found a star. Guest choose Simmons over 200 other applicants for a prominent role in the 1944 film Give Us the Moon alongside megastar Margaret Lockwood.
*Won her role in Black Narcissus (1947) from 1,600 applicants.This movie was first project Jean Simmons and Deborah Kerr filmed together , later Kerr became her close friend.
*She and Marlon Brando were originally supposed to lip-sync their songs in the musical film Guys and Dolls (1955). Samuel Goldwyn heard them during rehearsal and decided the untrained stars should do their own singing for authenticity.
*She was one of Cecil B. DeMille's favorite actresses and he wanted to cast her in the role of Delilah in Samson and Delilah (1949), but she was too busy making films in England and the role went to Hedy Lamarr. Simmons later narrated the TV episode Samson and Delilah (1998).
*Her second husband Director Richard Brooks claimed that he wrote The Happy Ending (1969), the filmed story of an alcoholic wife (played by Simmons) as a way to tell his wife that she herself had a problem. The marriage eventually broke up due to Simmons' drinking and Brooks' workaholic tendencies.
*Her daughters are named after Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
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