Jean Simmons Articles
From Jean Simmons to Tom Cruise – Non-Nominated Actors: Biggest Oscar Snubs #8f
Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman in Barry Levinson’s Academy Award winner Rain Man (1988). Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar that year; Cruise wasn’t even nominated. Biggest Oscar Snubs #8e: Non-Nominated Actors – From Charles Farrell to Rock Hudson Jean Simmons, Elmer Gantry (1960) Robert Mitchum, The Sundowners (1960) Fredric March, Inherit the Wind (1960) Fred MacMurray, The Apartment (1960) Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier, Fanny [...]
Oscar In Memoriam: Jean Simmons/Jennifer Jones Mix-Up
Jean Simmons, Paul Newman in Robert Wise’s Until They Sail Jean Simmons, who died this past January, was remembered in this year’s In Memoriam segment at the 2010 Oscar ceremony. Well, great. Simmons was a fantastic actress. As far as I’m concerned, she stole Hamlet from Laurence Olivier, Elmer Gantry from Burt Lancaster, and Spartacus from Kirk Douglas. But why an image of Jennifer Jones [...]
Jean Simmons on TCM
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 [...]
Actress Jean Simmons Dies
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 [...]