The Jean Kent Thread

[Brief Encounter]

And an article
Westhorpe: Jean back on the screen to help hall fund - News - East Anglian Daily Times

[julian_craster]

Jean Kent sings....on a new CD release.......



MARIGOLD stars British film legend Jean Kent, co-starring with Jeremy Brett in her only West End musical......


MARIGOLD (Original London Cast Recording) plus MELVILLAINY

Music by Charles Zwar
Book and lyrics by Alan Melville

ORIGINAL LONDON CAST
with
JEREMY BRETT
JEAN KENT
SALLY SMITH


MCSR 3052
Marigold


Tracks:

MARIGOLD Original London Cast

1. Romance at the Manse
2. Love Can't Be Learned
3. The New Bohemian Polka
4. According to Mr Payton
5. Always Ask Your Heart
6. Princes Street
7. Her Majesty's Health
8. Wonderful View
9. Reel
10. Present Day Youth
11. Reprise: Always Ask Your Heart
12. Fashionable Pair
13. Finale


MELVILLAINY
Lyrics by Alan Melville

14. There Are No Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden
15. Noel Noel
16. Jets
17. Restoration Piece
18. Common Talk
19. Down, Down, Down
20. The Art of Midlothian
21. Heredity
22. Old Girls
23. Yonder Blessed Moon
24. Rita
25. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
26. Which Witch?

Ready yourself for the eightsome highland reel as Alan Melville and Charles Zwar's delightfully charming romance relates the story of young Marigold's thrilling escape from the dullness of Peebles to the excitement of Edinburgh. Warmly received when it played London in 1959, MARIGOLD's pretty collection of songs, lush orchestrations and magnificently theatrical atmosphere is a guaranteed retro blast of late 1950s theatre. Jeremy Brett makes the most dashing of heroes, while film star Jean Kent's only musical recording offers a unique French accent.

The original London cast recording is joined by Melville and Zwar's recital of some of their outstanding revue numbers, MELVILLAINY, completing this celebration of their return to the record catalogue.



Must Close Saturday Records website:
Must Close Saturday Records

E-mail for enquiries:
enquiries@must-close-saturday-records.co.uk

[billy farmer]

[billy farmer]

A TV Times feature about Jean Kent from the August 5th - 11th 1962 issue of TV Times, the Play of the Week episode referred to in the feature below was shown on August 7th 1962.

[Brief Encounter]

Thanks Billy. Here's Jean on ITV Anglia News for anyone who missed it last year

[Windyridge]

And very lovely she was too at the BFI during and after the screening of the fab Caravan.

[Brief Encounter]

Agreed - a wonderful evening which I have fond memories of!

[Ray]

What is so lovely about Jean is that she seems really happy and contented, and not at all bitter about the way she was neglected by the British film industry, I always felt that she should have had the success that Deborah Kerr had. She was certainly capable of the role of Mrs Anna in The King and I, and she wouldn't have need to have her voice dubbed either.

[Brief Encounter]

I agree Ray. I imagine her long and happy marriage has something to do with it.