Pictures

British actress Jean Simmons smiles as she drives home her Christmas tree

Patricia Roc wears a fur coat in order to try to keep warm amidst the snowy rooftop chimneys

British actress Jean Kent smiles as she raises a glass of champagne. She is decorated with Christmas crackers; behind her is a Christmas tree

Michael Redgrave (as Peter) in a photograph from A Window in London (1940) (1)

Stewart Granger (as Adam Black) and Jean Simmons (as Evelyne Wallace) in a screenshot from Adam and Evelyne (1949) (3)

Screenshot from The Wicked Lady (1945) (3)

Anthony Steel (as Captain Harry Wilding) in a photograph from Something Money Can’t Buy (1952) (5)

Photograph from Honours Easy (1935) (1)

David Niven (as Raymond) in a photograph from Bonjour Tristesse (1958) (1)

Margaret Lockwood, in costume for A Girl Must Live, holds up a cat for the camera. The moggy is decidedly unimpressed.

Robert Ryan (as Richard Ashley) and Stewart Granger (as Duke of Orgagna) in a photograph from The Crooked Road (1965) (1)

Screenshot from Suspected Person (1942) (2)

Screenshot from Suspected Person (1942) (3)

Screenshot from Suspected Person (1942) (6)

George Sanders (as Landru) in a screenshot from Bluebeard’s Ten Honeymoons (1960) (6)

George Sanders (as Landru) in a screenshot from Bluebeard’s Ten Honeymoons (1960) (5)

Patricia Roc (as Mme. Dueaux) and George Sanders (as Landru) in a screenshot from Bluebeard’s Ten Honeymoons (1960) (1)

Stewart Granger in 1952 on the set of MGM’s Scaramouche, for which he is in costume. Granger is seen here horsing around with the film’s still photographer who is trying to get some good photos of the star

Pier Angeli (as Anna Vasarri) and Stewart Granger (as Sam Conride) in a photograph from The Light Touch (1952) (3)

Stewart Granger (as Sir Philip Ashlow), Ava Gardner (as Lady Susan Ashlow) and David Niven (as Henry Brittingham-Brett) in a photograph from The Little Hut (1957) (8)

Deborah Kerr (as Princess Flavia) in a photograph from The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) (5)

Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger enjoy themselves while he takes a break from filming Scaramouche

Derek Farr (as Joe Marsh) and Jean Kent (as Ricki Merritt) in a screenshot from Bond Street (1948) (5)

Screenshot from Bond Street (1948) (6)

Screenshot from Something Money Can’t Buy (1952) (1)

Kathleen Harrison (as Ethel Brawn) in a photograph from Bond Street (1948) (1)

Margaret Lockwood (as Mrs Cheveley) in a photograph from An Ideal Husband (1965) (3)

Patricia Roc poses with a couple of suitcases as she waits patiently for customs

Patricia Roc in Hollywood holds her presents during the Christmas of 1949. Behind her is a mantlepiece decorated with garlands and Christmas cards.

British actress Patricia Roc, dressed in evening wear, takes a phone call. Beograd card featuring Patricija Rok.

Scenes from Jean Simmons’ Christmas Party organised by ‘Picturegoer’. British actress and party host Jean Simmons is pictured next to a Christmas tree. Pinewood Studios, England, 1949.

Anthony Steel (as Captain Harry Wilding) and Patricia Roc (as Anne Wilding) in a photograph from Something Money Can’t Buy (1952) (4)

Jean Kent (as Gwen Rawlings) in a screenshot from Good-Time Girl (1948) (5)

Ian Hunter (as Charlie Carrington) and Margaret Lockwood (as Bedelia Carrington) in a photograph from Bedelia (1946) (30)

Julia Lockwood and Margaret Lockwood in a photograph from Every Other Evening! (1964) (1)

Patricia Roc (as Caroline) and Griffith Jones (as Sir Ralph Skelton) in a photograph from The Wicked Lady (1945) (45)

Dane Clark (as Bill Casey) and Margaret Lockwood (as Frances Gray) in a photograph from Highly Dangerous (1950) (16)

Margaret Lockwood, in costume as Peter Pan, perches on a bed in the ward and laughs as she plays with the children at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1949

Greta Gynt (as Elsie Silver) in a screenshot from Mr. Emmanuel (1944) (4)

Felix Aylmer (as Mr Emmanuel) in a screenshot from Mr. Emmanuel (1944) (3)

Dennis Price (as Lord Byron) and Joan Greenwood (as Lady Caroline Lamb) in a photograph from The Bad Lord Byron (1948) (7)

Stewart Granger lends a helping hand to actress Grace Kelly on the set of MGM’s Green Fire (1954)

British actor Stewart Ganger lights a cigarette as he sits on a back-to-front chair

Jean Kent talks to film historian Michael Thornton at the BFI screening of Caravan in order to celebrate her 90th birthday

Jean Kent peeks out from inside a giant egg

Jean Kent (as Louise Parker) in a photograph from The Big Frame [The Lost Hours] (1952) (2)

Eagle Lion star Jean Kent. British actress who played the haughty, seductive type and who was often cast as a spiteful hussy or femme fatale.

Gainsborough star Jean Kent dressed in black, holds a fan (autographed photograph)

Paul Dupuis (as Detective Inspector Jolif) in a photograph from Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) (3)

Jean Kent wears a fur coat in this autographed picture