Saturday, January 23, 2010
Breaking News: Actress Jean Simmons dies at 80
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:37:24 -0600
LOS ANGELES - 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
Douglas, has died. She was 80.
Simmons, who won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1980s miniseries
The Thorn Birds, died Friday at her home in Santa Monica, her agent
said.
