Jean Simmons — Actor (45)
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Her Own Rules (1998) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Her Own Rules
director: Bobby Roth actor: Melissa Gilbert / Jeremy Sheffield …
other title: Ich hab um dich geweint / Pour que triomphe la vie …
Melissa Gilbert stars as Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old, after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave, and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were, her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
director: Paul L. Stein actor: Patricia Medina / Jimmy Hanley …
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 status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
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Winter Solstice (2003) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Winter Solstice
director: Martyn Friend actor: Sinéad Cusack / Jan Niklas …
other title: 윈터 솔스티스 / Rosamunde Pilcher: Wintersonne
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 Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
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Great Expectations (1989) [TV] IMDb TMDB
Great Expectations
director: John Goldsmith actor: Anthony Calf / 约翰·里斯-戴维斯 …
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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This Could Be the Night (1957) [Movie] IMDb Douban
This Could Be the Night
director: 罗伯特·怀斯 actor: 简·西蒙斯 / 保罗·道格拉斯 …
other title: 销魂金夕 / Kein Platz für feine Damen …
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
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Cage of Gold (1952) [Movie] Douban
Cage of Gold
director: 巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 简·西蒙斯 / 大卫·法拉尔 …
other title: 金笼彩凤
A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her "dead" husband comes back and tries to extort money from her.
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The Grass Is Greener (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Grass Is Greener
director: 斯坦利·多南 actor: 加里·格兰特 / 黛博拉·蔻儿 …
other title: 绿苑春浓 / 草色入帘青 …
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 millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.
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Footsteps in the Fog (1955) [Movie] Douban
Footsteps in the Fog
director: 阿瑟·卢宾 actor: 斯图尔特·格兰杰 / 简·西蒙斯 …
other title: 雾夜足音 / 雾夜情杀案
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.
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The Clouded Yellow (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Clouded Yellow
director: Ralph Thomas actor: 简·西蒙斯 / 特瑞沃·霍华德
other title: 蝶怨花残 / La Fille aux papillons …
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.