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01-23-2010, 03:57 AM
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RIP Jean Simmons
She has died at 80, she played Elizabeth I before becoming Queen, in "Young Bess", among other famous works. May she rest in peace!:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100123/...t_jean_simmons SM
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01-23-2010, 05:00 AM
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I first fell in love with her in Young Bess. That flaming red hair and that dramatic moment when her shadow appears at the top of the staircase in the Tower: wow.
All the older classic movie stars are passing away. Having grown up watching them at the actual movies (40s and 50s films were shown at the theatres in Spain when I was growing up) it's quite sad to see them go.
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01-23-2010, 05:01 AM
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She was a beautiful woman. I would watch shows about the Bible and she narrated a lot of them and had such a distinctive beautiful voice.
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01-23-2010, 09:46 AM
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That's sad news. I remember her in The Thorn Birds. Wasn't she married to Stewart Granger for a while?
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01-23-2010, 11:58 AM
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I always thought she was beautiful too. She starred in a lot of those big, budget historical epics. I probably remember her most for Spartacus and Big Country, which are favorites of mine.
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01-23-2010, 12:54 PM
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She was always one of my favorites along with Katherine Hepburn. The Robe with Richard Burton was always a fav to watch every Easter.
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01-23-2010, 03:28 PM
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She was in a great 1940s melodrama called Baby Face.
The other film I really remember her for was Great Expectations, she only played the young Estella (Valerie Hobson took over for the second half) but she was amazing. I remember thinking they should have put more make up on her and let her play Estella throughout.
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01-24-2010, 09:54 AM
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