Jean Simmons

thumb|right|Simmons in 1953 Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was an English actress. Quotes No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there. Of her birthplace; The Guardian (January 23, 2010) Quotes about Jean Simmons in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier. Pauline Kael, The New Yorker (January 27, 1968, reprinted in Going Steady. The whole thing -[actor Stewart Granger's pursuit of Jean Simmons]- began as a joke but very quickly developed into a romance. [-] One day my agent called and told me the master, Rank, would like me to have dinner with him in his private suite at the Dorchester Hotel. [-] "Now, it's about Jean Simmons," he started in his flat Yorkshire accent. "I like to believe we're all a big family and I regard Jean as my daughter. (Well, you're a pretty damn mean father I thought, knowing the ridiculous salary he was paying to Britain's top female star.) "You're a married man with two children and what I hear is going on is wrong." "It's a disgrace" added John Davis who had been eyeing me balefully [-] I told them I was no longer married and that I had been divorced for six months [and] beat a hasty retreat." Stewart Granger, Sparks Fly Upward, p. 124, 126-127 Adam and Evelyne was a charming light comedy in which Jean started off as a teenager who goes away to finishing school in Switzerland and returns a sophisticated young woman [-] It was quite extraordinary playing love scenes with someone you loved and who was in love with you. [-] She enjoyed it thoroughly and when, in the film, I was telling her how much I loved her but that I was afraid I was too old for her, she'd mutter under her breath, "You're telling me, you dirty old man." Later, when she had to tell me she loved me, she'd whisper "and I mean it, too." Stewart Granger, p. 132 External links Category:1929 births Category:2010 deaths Category:Actresses from England Category:People from London Category:Women born in the 1920s Category:Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe (film) winners