LOS ANGELES — Jean Simmons, a radiant British actress who as a teenager appeared opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet” and emerged a star whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s ...

Jean Simmons, the lovely, ethereal film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys and Dolls" and costarred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk ...

Jean Simmons, whose ethereal screen presence and starring roles with Hollywood's top actors made her a mid-century film icon, has died at age 80. The actress, who sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys ...

LOS ANGELES – Jean Simmons, a radiant British actress who as a teenager appeared opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet” and emerged a star whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s ...

Jean Simmons, the lovely, ethereal film starwho played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, sang with MarlonBrando in Guys and Dolls and costarred with Gregory Peck, PaulNewman and Kirk Douglas ...

- Jean Simmons, the lovely, ethereal film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys and Dolls" and costarred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk ...

Jean Simmons, the stunning beauty who sang with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls and was Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, died today.

“Jean Simmons’ jaw-dropping beauty often obscured a formidable acting talent,” Alan Rode, a writer and film historian, told the Los Angeles Times in an e-mail.

Between those landmarks, Jean Simmons, who died Jan. 22 at 80, traced the career arc of so many actresses whose beauty and brilliance the movies first exploit, then ignore.

Jean Simmons, whose ethereal screen presence and starring roles with Hollywood's top actors made her a mid-century film icon, has died at age 80. Already a stunning beauty at 14, Ms. Simmons made ...

Have we been a little too quiet about the death of Jean Simmons last weekend? She was never quite as famous as her near- contemporary, Elizabeth Taylor (born three years later in an adjacent ...

She had lung cancer. “Jean Simmons’ jaw-dropping beauty often obscured a formidable acting talent,” said Alan Rode, a writer and film historian.