1. Jennifer Jones's third role was a lead part as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette, which earned her the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress.
43 Facts About Jennifer Jones
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Jennifer Jones went on to star in several films that garnered her significant critical acclaim and a further three Academy Award nominations in the mid-1940s, including Since You Went Away, Love Letters and Duel in the Sun.
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In 1949, Jennifer Jones married film producer David O Selznick and appeared as the eponymous Madame Bovary in Vincente Minnelli's 1949 adaptation.
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Jennifer Jones appeared in several films throughout the 1950s, including Ruby Gentry, John Huston's adventure comedy Beat the Devil and Vittorio De Sica's drama Terminal Station.
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Jennifer Jones earned her fifth Academy Award nomination for her performance as a Eurasian doctor in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.
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Jennifer Jones made her final film appearance in The Towering Inferno.
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Jennifer Jones enjoyed a quiet retirement, living the last six years of her life in Malibu, California, where she died of natural causes in 2009 at the age of 90.
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Jennifer Jones was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Flora Mae and Phillip Ross Isley.
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Jennifer Jones's father was originally from Georgia, and her mother was a native of Sacramento, California.
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Jennifer Jones was an only child, and she was raised Catholic.
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Jennifer Jones accompanied them, performing on occasion as part of the Isley Stock Company.
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In 1925, Jennifer Jones enrolled at Edgemere Public School in Oklahoma City, then attended Monte Cassino, a Catholic girls school and junior college in Tulsa.
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Jennifer Jones landed two small roles, first in the 1939 John Wayne Western New Frontier, which she filmed in the summer of 1939 for Republic Pictures.
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Shortly after Jennifer Jones married Walker, she gave birth to two sons: Robert Walker Jr.
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Jennifer Jones was carefully groomed for stardom and given a new name: Jennifer Jones.
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Simultaneously to her rise in prominence for The Song of Bernadette, Jennifer Jones began an affair with producer Selznick.
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Jennifer Jones separated from Walker in November 1943, co-starred with him in Since You Went Away, and formally divorced him in June 1945.
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Jennifer Jones earned a third successive Academy Award nomination for her performance with Joseph Cotten in Love Letters.
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Jennifer Jones next appeared in the fantasy film Portrait of Jennie, again costarring with Cotten.
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Jennifer Jones married Selznick at sea on July 13,1949, en route to Europe after a five-year relationship.
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In 1949, Jennifer Jones starred opposite John Garfield in John Huston's adventure film We Were Strangers.
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Jennifer Jones next starred in William Wyler's drama Carrie with Laurence Olivier.
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In 1953, Jennifer Jones was cast opposite Montgomery Clift in Italian director Vittorio De Sica's Terminal Station, a drama set in Rome about a romance between an American woman and an Italian man.
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Also in 1953, Jennifer Jones teamed again with director John Huston to star in his film Beat the Devil, an adventure comedy costarring Humphrey Bogart.
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Jennifer Jones was cast as Chinese-born doctor Han Suyin in the drama Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, a role that brought her fifth Academy Award nomination.
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Jennifer Jones next played the lead role in the Ernest Hemingway adaptation A Farewell to Arms.
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Selznick died at age 63 on June 22,1965, and after his death, Jennifer Jones semiretired from acting.
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Jennifer Jones's first role in four years was a lead part in the British drama The Idol as the mother of an adult son in Swinging Sixties London who has an affair with his best friend.
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In 1966, Jennifer Jones made a rare theatrical appearance in the revival of Clifford Odets' The Country Girl, costarring Rip Torn, at New York's City Center.
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Jennifer Jones was hospitalized in a coma from the incident.
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Jennifer Jones returned to film with Angel, Angel, Down We Go in 1969, about a teenage girl who uses her association with a rock band to manipulate her family.
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On May 29,1971, Jennifer Jones married her third husband Norton Simon, a multimillionaire industrialist, art collector and philanthropist from Portland, Oregon.
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Years before, Simon had attempted to buy the portrait of Jennifer Jones that was used in the film Portrait of Jennie.
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Jennifer Jones spent the remainder of her life outside of the public eye.
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Four years before the death of her husband Simon in June 1993, he resigned as president of Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, and Jennifer Jones was appointed chairman of the board of trustees, president and executive officer.
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Jennifer Jones remained active as the director of the museum until 2003, when she was awarded emerita status.
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Jennifer Jones was a registered Republican who supported Dwight Eisenhower's campaign in the 1952 presidential election.
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Jennifer Jones suffered from shyness for much of her life and avoided discussing her past and personal life with journalists.
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Jennifer Jones was averse to discussing critical analysis of her work.
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Jennifer Jones enjoyed a quiet retirement, living with her eldest child, son Robert Walker Jr.
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Jennifer Jones participated in Gregory Peck's AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in 1989 and appeared at the 70th and 75th Academy Awards as part of the shows' tributes to past Oscar winners.
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Jennifer Jones died of natural causes on December 17,2009, at age 90.
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Jennifer Jones was cremated and her ashes were interred with her second husband in the Selznick private room at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.