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Jean Simmons, the British actress who became one of Hollywood's brightest stars, has died after a long battle with lung cancer, it has been announced. She first came to attention in David Lean's Great Expectations and Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus, and went on to starring roles in such features as The Blue Lagoon, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (as Ophelia) and So Long at the Fair before travelling to America and a career as one of the most popular actresses of her age. International successes included film noir Angel Face, The Robe, Desirée, Guys and Dolls (singing with Brando and Sinatra), The Big Country, Elmer Gantry, and Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus. Good roles dried up for her later on, much to her dismay, but she did win an Emmy for The Thorn Birds miniseries, and appeared in Murder She Wrote and Star Trek on television, among other guest spots. |
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