"The whole thing -[actor Stewart Granger's pursuit of Jean Simmons]- began as a joke but very quickly developed into a romance. [-] One day my agent called and told me the master, Rank, would like me to have dinner with him in his private suite at the Dorchester Hotel. [-] "Now, it's about Jean Simmons," he started in his flat Yorkshire accent. "I like to believe we're all a big family and I regard Jean as my daughter. (Well, you're a pretty damn mean father I thought, knowing the ridiculous salary he was paying to Britain's top female star.) "You're a married man with two children and what I hear is going on is wrong." "It's a disgrace" added John Davis who had been eyeing me balefully [-] I told them I was no longer married and that I had been divorced for six months [and] beat a hasty retreat.""
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People from LondonActresses from EnglandWomen born in the 1920sBest Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
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, Sparks Fly Upward, p. 124, 126-127
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Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was an English actress.
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