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Film actress Jean Simmons dies

Film actress Jean Simmons dies

The film actress Jean Simmons has died. She was 80.

Her agent revealed the British actress had died at her home in Santa Monica. She had been suffering from lung cancer.

Jean Simmons moved to the United States in 1950 and very soon had become one of Hollywood’s leading ladies. 

Among her many successes was Guys and Dolls (1955), with Marlon Brando, and The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck. 

She was twice nominated for an Oscar. The first time was for her part in Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948), the second nomination was for The Happy Ending (1969).

Ms. Simmons was married twice. Her first husband was the film star Stewart Granger, she then married director Richard Brooks.  They had a daughter.

 

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