Jean Simmons

But by that time, they've already found something else suspicious about somebody else, and that then feeds into this, um, this thing.

And I, I was like, the, the, the admiral they bring in, Admiral Satie, is played by an actress called Jean Simmons.

Um, she is-

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It was also nominated for Best Director.

best supporting actress for Gene Simmons, and best score of a dramatic or comedy picture.

There's some other stuff in Wikipedia here, but I'm not going to go into it.

So this one, you know, I gave it three stars, which is the lowest I gave anything on this year's round of movies.

This is something I really like." And it, it transfixed me.

The music on that film, the score by William Walton, was so haunting, and it made the movie a great classic, apart from the acting of Olivier and Jean Simmons and all those people.

So that was, that did, was a, a profound effect for me.

And many years later, I worked with Olivier at the National Theatre.

We're at Lancaster, who we know from From Here to Eternity, 1953, The Rose Tattoo, 1955, and Separate Tables in 1958.

We know Gene Simmons from Great Expectations, 1946, Hamlet, 1948, and The Robe in 1953.

And it is directed by Richard Brooks, who did Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1958.

And then I'm going to read you the opening statement.

Yeah, you know who else really didn't like him?

Well.

Gene Simmons.

She said that on the set, quote, this quiet, soft-spoken gentleman that I thought I knew a little bit became a raging lunatic, end quote.