A stage performer from the age of 10, Jean Kent was billed as Jean
Carr when she danced in the chorus of London's Windmill Theatre. Kent
made her debut film appearance in 1934, and by the mid-1940s had become
a leading lady on screen, often in Gainsborough productions. Her first
co-starring role came opposite Stewart Granger
in Caravan (1945), and further prominent roles followed including The
Man Within (1947), The
Loves of Joanna Godden (1947), Sleeping
Car to Trieste (1948), Good
Time Girl (1948), and an opportunity to return to roots in the musical
Trottie True
(1949). The 1950’s began with prominent appearances in two Anthony
Asquith films; The
Woman in Question (1950) and The
Browning Version (1950), but hereafter the film roles began drying-up
and Kent started to appear chiefly in theatre and on television.
