Jenny Arean

Acting

Jenny Arean

Born 1942-10-04 · Lisse, Netherlands

Jenny Arean is a Dutch singer, actress and comedian. She is known for her contralto voice.

Acting credits

Bad Slippers poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Bad Slippers

2026

Just Friends poster
7.1

Joris is trying to come to terms with his broken family relationships on the 10th anniversary of his father’s death when he meets the free-spirited, Yad. Also dealing with family issues, Yad has returned home to The Netherlands after living on his own. Joris and Yad spark an instant connection and decide they want to be more than “just friends,” but fear their families could threaten their relationship.

Just Friends

2019

Jenny Arean & Brigitte Kaandorp: Gedeelde Smart poster
8.0

Stage registration of the theatre performance by the Dutch theatre vedettes Jenny Arean and Brigitte Kaandorp.

Jenny Arean & Brigitte Kaandorp: Gedeelde Smart

2022

Katie Tippel poster
6.3

In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. However, their dreams are quickly shattered, as teenage Katie is terrorized by a male-dominated society who only see her as an object. Her situation worsens when, following her father's sacking and her elder sister's descent into alcoholism, her mother decides that, rather than starving, Katie becomes a prostitute.

Katie Tippel

1975

Finn poster
6.4

Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but his father doesn't want to talk about it. When Finn meets a mysterious old man, who plays the violin beautifully, he decides to learn how to play the violin as well. The old man teaches him, while Finn's dad thinks he is playing football... Is Finn the only one who sees the magic of music? What does his father hide?

Finn

2013

Tip Top poster
NR

Television adaptation of the theater performance of the same name by the Dutch Ruut Weissman and George Groot. The Dutch cabaret artists Jenny Arean, Frits Lambrechts, Lucretia van der Vloot and Kasper van Kooten revive the vanished Jewish entertainment in Amsterdam. Recorded in the Tip Top theater café of the Academie van de Kleinkunst in Amsterdam, which is on the same spot where the Tip Top Theater used to be.

Tip Top

1999

Daddy-Long-Legs poster
8.0

Dutch television adaptation of the English theatre musical 'Love from Judy' by Eric Maschwitz and Hugh Martin, based on the novel 'Daddy-Long-Legs' by Jean Webster. Jerusha Abbott, a girl growing up in the orphanage, is called to the headmistress where she hears that one of the orphanage's wealthiest regents has taken notice of her fate and wants her to study to be a writer. One condition is that Jerusha has to write him a short letter once a month, stating what progress she is making.

Daddy-Long-Legs

1964

Jenny Arean & Swami George Groot: Neem Je een Apie voor Me Mee poster
NR

Television registration of the theatreprogram of the Dutch singers and cabaret artists Jenny Arean and (swami) George Groot. Recorded in De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam.

Jenny Arean & Swami George Groot: Neem Je een Apie voor Me Mee

1990

Muziek: Harry Bannink poster
NR

This documentary explores the life and life of Harry Bannink, an important Dutch composer for theatre and television.

Muziek: Harry Bannink

2000

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9.0

A family owning a traditional flea circus tries to survive next to the new attraction on the fair.

Er valt een ster

1963

Jenny Arean: Voorwaarts en niet Vergeten poster
NR

Registration of the theatreprogram by the Dutch singer and cabaret artist Jenny Arean. In this program from 2000 she looks back on her 40-year career. She sings songs by lyricist such as Jan Boerstoel, Jurrian van Dongen, George Groot, Robert Long, Ischa Meijer, Annie M.G. Schmidt, Willem Wilmink and Ivo de Wijs.

Jenny Arean: Voorwaarts en niet Vergeten

1999

De Mooie Dingen: Hommage aan Jurrian van Dongen poster
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TV recording of the hommage to the Dutch lyricist Jurrian van Dongen. Van Dongen wrote countless song lyrics for theater and television. He has been writing for the children's program Het Klokhuis for decades. He also writes for theater programs by Wende Snijders, Jenny Arean, Paul de Leeuw, Alex Klaasen and many others. In addition, he was a teacher at a cabaret academy for a new generation of lyricists.

De Mooie Dingen: Hommage aan Jurrian van Dongen

2022

En nu naar bed poster
NR

Television recording of the Dutch musical by Annie M.G. Schmidt (lyrics) and Harry Bannink (music) from 1971. Two fairies guide the life of young Frans. The good fairy wishes him that he will become a decent man, with a good job and an exemplary family. The evil fairy wishes him bad luck. Her goal is to make the boy as unhappy as possible. Both bring twists and turns in the boy's life. They accompany his life in different guises, as a teacher, as a cashier, as a customer in a shop, as a psychiatrist, as aunts at a reception. Their fight continues until morals begin to scramble. Because what is actually still good and what is really bad?

En nu naar bed

1973

The Son of Louis Davids poster
NR

Recording of the musical by Gerben Hellinga en Jacques Klöters, written in celebration of Louis Davids' 100th birthday.

The Son of Louis Davids

1986

Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination poster
4.0

The actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together.

Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination

1985

80 VARA Toppers! poster
NR

VARA exists 80 years! We celebrate this with the DVD you have in your hands. About 5 hours top entertainment from VARA's entertainment cabinet. Fragments that will take you from 1958 to now. You still remember Dorus with his mouse trap? Or the "Kopspijkers" cabaret with the song "One Day Fly", Theo Maassen with his farewell speech of Henk van den Tillaart or Harry Vermegen and Henk Spaan with Popie Jopie? That's all on this DVD, and more!

80 VARA Toppers!

2005

Heerlijk Duurt Het Langst poster
8.0

Marian and Ido are married and have a 16-year-old daughter, Pinkie. Marian and Ido's marriage has become boring. Ido is a conservative and neat furniture manufacturer, but secretly starts a relationship with the beautiful Emma, ​​his secretary. When Marian discovers this, she offers him a choice: stay with her or move on with Emma. Ido cannot make this choice, so Marian throws him out. Ido moves in with Ida, but continues to interfere intensively with Pinkie, who to his horror becomes friends with Wim, one of his Turkish workers.

Heerlijk Duurt Het Langst

1998

Meisjes in de Grote Stad poster
NR

The Dutch singers and cabaret artists Adèle Bloemendaal and Jenny Arean pay a musical tribute to the city of their births, Amsterdam.

Meisjes in de Grote Stad

1995

Hallo Bungalow poster
4.1

A comedy about three woman working at a boring holiday resort and their criminal employer.

Hallo Bungalow

2015

Jenny Arean: Gescheiden Vrouw op Oorlogspad poster
NR

Television registration of the first solo program by the Dutch singer and comedian Jenny Arean. Recorded in het Nieuwe de la Mar Theater in Amsterdam.

Jenny Arean: Gescheiden Vrouw op Oorlogspad

1986

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