Kent was one of Britain’s top box-office stars in the 1940s and 1950s. Her death was announced by a close family friend, author and former film critic Michael Thornton.
He said the actress was injured in a fall at her home in the Suffolk village of Westhorpe on Thursday. She was taken by ambulance to West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds where she died at 3.40am on Wednesday.
She made her last public appearance in June 2011 when she was honoured by the British Film Institute on her 90th birthday.
Her career included regular appearances in Gainsborough melodramas, which were popular with newly-independent women following the outbreak of the Second World War.
