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Offline jimbo

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Jean Simmons passed away
« on: January 23, 2010, 05:19:27 AM »
Terrible news. Very very sad. What a great actress and person. My prayers are with her family and friends.

http://cbs2.com/local/obit.jean.simmons.2.1444015.html
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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2010, 05:29:27 AM »
I am very saddened to hear that. She was a very distinguished lady, indeed a great actress, and she did justice to the role of Elizabeth in the 1991 revival. May she rest in peace.
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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2010, 05:36:59 AM »
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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2010, 07:15:41 AM »
A very underrated actress indeed.  Recently I watched again Elmer Gantry on TCM, and it still amazes me she wasn't nominated for her performance.  She was excellent as Liz Stoddard in the 91 series, and she and her daughters had watched the original series on ABC.  I am heartbroken by her passing.
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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2010, 08:43:40 AM »
Great Expectations, Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Elmer  Gantry, Spartucus, WOW!       RIP
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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2010, 04:34:50 PM »
I am really saddened by this.  A great lady of the cinema is gone.

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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2010, 04:56:10 PM »
Well I knew nothing about it. I am so saddened!  I will forever remember her as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.  The Revival started it all for me and I will forever be greatful!  I thought Jean didn't have enough to do but she was a great ECS!
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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2010, 08:09:37 PM »
N Y Times link mentions her involvement in Dark Shadows:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/movies/24simmons.html

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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2010, 11:53:07 AM »
This is sad news, indeed.  I remember her performance in "The Thorn Birds" and, of course, on the 1991 DS revival series. A very talented actress. Jean Simmons, RIP.

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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2010, 12:04:01 PM »
It seems sadly ironic the both Jean Simmons and Joan Bennett both died at the same age, 80.  And the Obituary made no mention of 1991 Dark Shadows.
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2010, 03:52:08 AM »
2 of Jeans lesser known films worth seeking out: 1947s Uncle Silas and 1950s So Long At The Fair. Both of these dark, gothic chestnuts play on TCM every now and again.
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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2010, 05:55:05 AM »
Many people know her early film role as Estella in the David Lean film of "Great Expectations." But she was also an excellent Miss Havisham in the 1989 miniseries version of "Great Expectations," a Dickens novel with some Gothic touches.

She lent elegance to the 1991 DS Revival. It would have been interesting to see her expand her performance as other characters, as Joan Bennett did in the original series, had the revival continued.
 
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Re: Jean Simmons passed away
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2010, 04:50:26 AM »
A fave of mine that I first saw on TCM was 1952's "Angel Face", one of the series of films Jean Simmons made for Howard Hughes which she later derided... But it's a pretty good noir, where Jean plays a gorgeous, wicked young femme fatale who seduces, and draws into her sinister plans, an ambulance driver played by the late Robert Mitchum.  Who, of course, years later, starred as "Pug Henry" in the Dan Curtis-produced & directed miniseries "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance"--- which latter series was also partly produced by Barbara Steele, who played "Julia" in the 1991 DS alongside Jean Simmons.

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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2010, 09:05:55 AM »
Also check out 1969s The Happy Ending. Jean got her last Oscar nomination for this one.
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