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Jean Colin

Jean Colin

British actress (1905–1989)

This article is about the actress. For other people with the same name, see Jean Colin (disambiguation).

Jean Colin (24 March 1905 – 7 March 1989) was an English actress. She began her career on stage in pantomime, musical theatre and operettas.[1][2] She appeared in several films beginning in the 1930s.[3]

Colin with Tommy Trinder during the making of Communal Kitchen: Eating Out With Tommy Trinder for the Ministry of Information in 1941

Colin was born in Brighton, Sussex and died in London.[3] In her later years, she lived in a flat near Marble Arch in central London.[citation needed]

Career

Her stage debut was in 1923 in Brighton when Mary Lynn, niece of Ralph Lynn, persuaded her to work up a dancing act with her. Her big chance came when she was given the part originally meant for June in The Five O'Clock Girl. The Hate Ship was her first film.[4]

Selected filmography

References

  1. [1]
    Jean Colin profile Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine in The Mikado Technicolor film programme, 1939
  2. [2]
    "Jean Colin | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. [3]
    "Jean Colin". BFI. Archived from the original on 26 March 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Jean Colin | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.


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