Jean Simmons Passes Away Aged 80

[GommeInc]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476400.stm

British film actress Jean Simmons, who played Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and sang with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls, has died aged 80.

Simmons, who won an Emmy Award for her role in The Thorn Birds in the 1980s, died at her home in Santa Monica on Friday, her agent told the LA Times.

She had been suffering from lung cancer for some time.

The actress, who moved to Hollywood in 1950, first made her name playing Estella in 1946's Great Expectations.

She went on to become one of Hollywood's leading ladies, starring alongside Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas.

Jean Simmons was in The Thorn Birds', Great Expectations' and 'Black Narcissus', to name but a few. She died of lung cancer.

[Black_Apalachi]

Oh I thought this was Gene Simmons. RIP nevertheless.

[Sly]

Oh I thought this was Gene Simmons. RIP nevertheless.

My thoughts exactly.
No idea who Jean simmons is but r.i.p

[-:Undertaker:-]

RIP, i'm sure i've heard of her/seen her before.

[Misawa]

I doubt most people here will know who she is.

Screen legend. Black Narcissus is one of my personal favourites.

[Kronics]

Heard of her, not seen the stuff she was in.

RIP

[::Art::]

RIP whoever she is

[Blinger1]

Oh I thought this was Gene Simmons. RIP nevertheless.

Same. It sucks when old people die tbh.