Jean Simmons was a favorite of mine. Not only was she a gifted actress, she was one of the most beautiful and alluring women in Hollywood.
Few actresses could have portrayed a slave woman with such grace, dignity and seductiveness as she did in "Spartacus".
Her greatest role, in prestige and as a leading actress, was "Elmer Gantry". As "Sister Sharon Falconer", Simmons played a magnetic evangelist who held audiences, and men, spellbound. Burt Lancaster won the Oscar as the title character, but Simmons held her own as a woman who was pious, smitten, vulnerable, hurt and, finally, saintlike.
Farewell to a great and glamourous lady.
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