Film and television actress Jean Kent, one of Britain's biggest stars in the 1940s and 1950s, has died.
She was injured in a fall at her home in Westhorpe, Suffolk, on Thursday and died earlier at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.
Her death was announced by a close family friend, author and former film critic Michael Thornton.
Her last public appearance was in 2011 when she was honoured by the British Film Institute on her 90th birthday.
Mr Thornton said: "I knew Jean for more than 50 years. She was a feisty, funny, outspoken character who never took herself too seriously.
"She knew what it meant to be a star and regarded it as her job to live up to that position and never to disappoint the public."
Kent's career included regular appearances in Gainsborough melodramas, which were popular with large numbers of newly-independent women following the outbreak of World War II.
She made 45 films and during her career starred alongside Marilyn Monroe, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.
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