Great Expectations Articles

Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons in David Lean's Great Expectations Jean Simmons is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of June. Though never a major box-office draw, Simmons either starred or was featured in a number of the most important movies of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Among those are Laurence Olivier's Best Picture Oscar winner Hamlet (1948), Henry Koster's CinemaScope blockbuster The Robe (1953), [...]

Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons in Great Expectations (Universal) Jean Simmons, who died on Jan. 22 at age 80, will have next Friday evening dedicated to her on Turner Classic Movies. Beginning at 5pm PT, TCM will show three Jean Simmons movies: David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), and Richard Brooks' Elmer Gantry (1960) and The Happy Ending (1969). Many consider the Academy Award-nominated Great Expectations the [...]

Jean Simmons, the beautiful actress who was nominated for Oscars for her work in Hamlet (1948) and The Happy Ending (1969), died of lung cancer on Friday night (Jan. 22) at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. The London-born actress would have turned 81 on Jan. 31. Simmons' film debut took place in the 1944 British comedy Give Us the Moon, in which she played [...]

Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford in Gilda FILM Anna and the King of Siam d: John Cromwell; scr: Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson The Best Years of Our Lives d: William Wyler; scr: Robert E. Sherwood Cloak and Dagger d: Fritz Lang; scr: Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr. From This Day Forward d: John Berry; scr: Hugo Butler, Garson Kanin Gilda d: Charles Vidor; scr: Marion Parsonnet [...]