The British film actress Jean Simmons, who played Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" and performed with Marlon Brando in "Guys and Dolls", has passed on Friday. Video courtesy of Reuters.

Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and ...