Jean Simmons, 'Guys and Dolls' star, dies

British actress Jean Simmons, who starred alongside Laurence Olivier in Hamlet, died Friday in Santa Monica of lung cancer at the age of 80. The actress also appeared in such films as Guys and Dolls (as Sergeant Sarah Brown opposite Marlon Brando’s Sky Masterson), Elmer Gantry, and Spartacus, and won an Emmy award for her work in the 1980s miniseries The Thorn Birds. Simmons was also twice nominated for an Academy Award, once for best actress in The Happy Ending, and once best supporting actress in Hamlet.