Jean Simmons
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1929-01-31
Locus Natus: Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
Et ut: ジーン・シモンズ, Джин Симмонс, Jean Merilyn Simmons
Spartacus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the...
release : 1960.10.13popularis : 34.203
Angel Face
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
release : 1953.01.02popularis : 10.447
Guys and Dolls
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky...
release : 1955.12.23popularis : 11.501
Elmer Gantry
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her...
release : 1960.07.07popularis : 8.881
Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...
release : 1948.12.10popularis : 12.321
How to Make an American Quilt
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn...
release : 1995.10.06popularis : 13.072
The Egyptian
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new...
release : 1954.08.25popularis : 6.965
The Grass Is Greener
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a...
release : 1960.12.23popularis : 6.111
The Big Country
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill,...
release : 1958.09.30popularis : 15.895
Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...
release : 1946.12.26popularis : 13.669
The Robe
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like...
release : 1953.09.16popularis : 13.572
Désirée
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral...
release : 1954.11.16popularis : 6.636
The Clouded Yellow
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas...
release : 1950.11.21popularis : 2.342
Young Bess
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I....
release : 1953.05.29popularis : 2.809
The Way to the Stars
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join...
release : 1945.06.16popularis : 2.918
A Bullet Is Waiting
A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a...
release : 1954.09.04popularis : 3.407
Footsteps in the Fog
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
release : 1955.09.14popularis : 3.888
Black Narcissus
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are...
release : 1947.05.26popularis : 11.937
Rough Night in Jericho
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by...
release : 1967.08.01popularis : 5.725
Shadows in the Sun
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
release : 2009.06.15popularis : 3.248
So Long at the Fair
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the...
release : 1950.05.31popularis : 2.9
Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a...
release : 1952.12.01popularis : 3.234
Down at the Hydro
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
release : 1983.09.04popularis : 1.427
Uncle Silas
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...
release : 1947.10.08popularis : 3.86
The Happy Ending
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate...
release : 1969.12.21popularis : 4.859
This Could Be the Night
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
release : 1957.05.14popularis : 1.994
Going Undercover
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to...
release : 1988.06.17popularis : 1.609
On Cukor
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and...
release : 2000.11.22popularis : 1.827
Divorce American Style
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
release : 1967.06.21popularis : 5.246
The Actress
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
release : 1953.09.25popularis : 1.456
Affair with a Stranger
Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.
release : 1953.06.20popularis : 1.535
Fun in the Big Country
Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 1.852
Home Before Dark
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
release : 1958.11.16popularis : 4.066
All the Way Home
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure...
release : 1963.10.17popularis : 3.457
Until They Sail
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
release : 1957.10.08popularis : 5.036
She Couldn't Say No
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
release : 1954.02.15popularis : 1.89
Winter Solstice
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend...
release : 2003.12.25popularis : 2.71
Cage of Gold
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
release : 1950.10.23popularis : 7.346
This Earth Is Mine
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with...
release : 1959.07.08popularis : 1.959
Adam and Evelyne
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
release : 1949.05.31popularis : 3.936
Hilda Crane
After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
release : 1956.05.08popularis : 8.061
Life at the Top
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But...
release : 1965.12.14popularis : 5.219
Say Hello to Yesterday
Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she...
release : 1971.01.14popularis : 2.726
Hungry Hill
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
release : 1947.01.07popularis : 2.222
Dominique
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
release : 1980.03.06popularis : 4.591
The Dawning
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
release : 1988.06.08popularis : 1.8
Mister Buddwing
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
release : 1966.07.15popularis : 2.379
Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...
release : 2011.11.01popularis : 2.809
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
release : 1987.02.23popularis : 2.906
Meet Sexton Blake
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man...
release : 1945.02.05popularis : 1.463
The Blue Lagoon
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical...
release : 1949.03.01popularis : 2.438
The Lady Is My Wife
After the Civil War ends, a rich horse rancher out West hires the Bannisters, a married Southern couple who lost everything in the war, to help run...
release : 1967.02.01popularis : 1.045
Laker Girls
Three hopefuls — a college grad, a dance teacher from Watts, and an incognito heiress — vie for a spot on the Los Angeles Lakers...
release : 1990.04.03popularis : 2.241
Give Us the Moon
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general...
release : 1944.07.31popularis : 2.726
Inherit the Wind
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
release : 1988.03.20popularis : 4.174
Heidi
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old...
release : 1968.11.17popularis : 5.066
The Woman in the Hall
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the...
release : 1947.10.27popularis : 2.001
A Friendship in Vienna
Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi...
release : 1988.08.27popularis : 1.201
Midas Valley
Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed,...
release : 1985.06.27popularis : 4.272
Sensibility and Sense
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
release : 1990.01.24popularis : 1.463
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social...
release : 1945.01.28popularis : 1.856
Decisions! Decisions!
A precedent-setting comedy-drama special in which a salesman (Bob Newhart) and a sexologist (Jill St. John) have misadventures with plot development...
release : 1971.09.11popularis : 2.551
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the...
release : 2001.07.02popularis : 18.372
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve...
release : 1981.10.19popularis : 1.071
Mr. Sycamore
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
release : 1975.12.12popularis : 2.078
The Easter Promise
Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a...
release : 1975.03.26popularis : 0.664
Daisies in December
A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this...
release : 1995.12.03popularis : 2.123
A Moment in Time
Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a week at the Elm Park Hydro and submits himself...
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 0.562
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.438
Soldier in Love
The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
release : 1967.04.26popularis : 1.799
Trio
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
release : 1950.10.10popularis : 4.643
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates',...
release : 1991.12.29popularis : 5.517
Mr. Emmanuel
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany,...
release : 1944.08.02popularis : 3.563
Her Own Rules
Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or...
release : 1998.10.13popularis : 2.077
Beggarman, Thief
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the...
release : 1979.11.26popularis : 4.562
December Flower
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings...
release : 1984.12.23popularis : 0.303
Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
release : 1945.12.11popularis : 7.584
Golden Gate
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a...
release : 1981.09.25popularis : 2.022
People Like Us
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to...
release : 1990.05.13popularis : 2.454
A Small Killing
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid...
release : 1981.11.24popularis : 2.399