Jennifer Jones
An Academy Award-winning actress whose bright but ultimately stunted career was largely orchestrated by her second husband, famed producer David O. Selznick, Jennifer Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley in Tulsa, Okla., on March 2, 1919. Before arriving in Hollywood and adopting the stage name Selznick created for her, she spent summers with her parents' traveling theater troupe and studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Jones's portrayal of a French girl who has a religious vision in The Song of Bernadette (1943) earned her an Oscar -- and instant stardom. She followed that success with four more Oscar nods for her work in Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955).

The actress's final film was the celebrity-studded disaster movie The Towering Inferno (1974). She died Dec. 17, 2009, at the age of 90.

Featured Movies
  • The Song of BernadetteThe Song of Bernadette

    Jennifer Jones shines in her Best Actress Oscar-winning role (and screen debut, no less!) about the French peasant girl who sees a miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858. Based on the titular novel by Franz Werfel, the movie examines Bernadette's many tribulations -- from life with... Read More

  • Portrait of JenniePortrait of Jennie

    Artist Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) has never been able to impress infuential art dealer Henry Matthews with his work, until he meets a schoolgirl in Central Park named Jennie (Jennifer Jones). When Eben sketches Jennie, it expresses more emotion than anything else he's ever done. There is a mystical... Read More

  • Since You Went AwaySince You Went Away

    Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) is the wife of a businessman who becomes an officer during WWII. Fighting back her own fears and anxieties, Anne strives to maintain a normal, stable household for the sake of her growing daughters, Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Bridget (Shirley Temple). Monty Woolley and... Read More

  • Love Is a Many-Splendored ThingLove Is a Many-Splendored Thing

    Tragedy is in the offing when widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) falls for dashing American war correspondent Mark Elliot (William Holden). Despite insurmountable obstacles -- Hong Kong's anti-miscegenation laws and the refusal of Mark's wife to give him a divorce -- Han and Mark's... Read More

All Jennifer Jones Movies
Beat the Devil / Jack Benny Show (2002)
NR
Beat the Devil / That Uncertain Feeling (2000)
NR
The Towering Inferno (1974)
PG
Cult of the Damned (1969)
Angel, Angel, Down We Go
R
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
NR
Beat the Devil / Humphrey Bogart on Film (1957)
NR
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
NR
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
NR
Beat the Devil (1954)
NR
Beat the Devil / Call It Murder (1954)
Humphrey Bogart: Collector's Choice
NR
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
Stazione Termini
NR
Carrie (1952)
NR
Ruby Gentry (1952)
NR
Madame Bovary (1949)
NR
We Were Strangers (1949)
NR
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
NR
Duel in the Sun (1946)
NR
Since You Went Away (1944)
NR
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
NR
Desert Trail / Frontier Horizon (1935)
Desert Trail / New Frontier
NR

 
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