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Jean Simmons
Jan. 23rd, 2010 12:29 pmShe was an adult actress. She may have started young -- at 14 according to the obituary I read -- but even as Estella in Great Expectations, she was sophisticated in ways many actresses just aren't now.
When my sister was working on the TV series In the Heat of the Night, there was an episode she was really excited about because Lauren Bacall might be on it. Instead, the role was played by "someone I've never heard of" in her words. I threw a fit that she didn't know who Jean Simmons was -- for heaven's sake, she played Ophelia in the Olivier film of Hamlet -- and that Sis hadn't realized how much it would have meant to me to get her autograph.
Spartacus, The Big Country, Elmer Gantry, and Desiree are all ones that I love.
She was a beautiful woman and a great actress.
When my sister was working on the TV series In the Heat of the Night, there was an episode she was really excited about because Lauren Bacall might be on it. Instead, the role was played by "someone I've never heard of" in her words. I threw a fit that she didn't know who Jean Simmons was -- for heaven's sake, she played Ophelia in the Olivier film of Hamlet -- and that Sis hadn't realized how much it would have meant to me to get her autograph.
Spartacus, The Big Country, Elmer Gantry, and Desiree are all ones that I love.
She was a beautiful woman and a great actress.
