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OBE was an actress and singer, Jean Merilyn Simmons. A J. Just. The "best-speaking young starles" of Arthur Rank, she appeared mainly in movies, from and after the Second World War in Great Britain, followed mainly by Hollywood movies from 1950.Jean Simmons was born in Crouch End, London, Demure British beauty, on 31 January 1929. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944), and she went on to make a name for herself in such major British productions as Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Great Expectations (1946) (as the spoiled, selfish Estella), Black Narcissus (1947) (as a sultry native beauty), Hamlet (1948) (playing Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's great Dane and earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination), The Blue Lagoon (1949) and So Long at the Fair (1950), among others.
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