Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley in March 2, 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American actress.

Innate to Phil Isley & Florthe Mae (Suber) Isley, she & her parents toured a Midwest within a touring collapsible shelter indicate that it owned & operated. She attended Monte Cassino Junior College inside Tulsa & Northwestern University before transferring to the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in 1938. There she met & fell crazy by owning fellow acting student Robert Walker and the two were married in January Two, 1939, while Jones was upright 19 years old.

the few returned to Tulsa for a baker's dozen week radio program intended by her father then headed for Hollywood. Phylis landed ii little roles, 1st around the John Wayne western titled Future Frontier (1939) & in the future the serial, Dick Tracy’s G-Men (1939) however while she & her married man failed the screen line 2 text for Paramount Pictures, they decided to go to to Future York.

When Walker obtained steadily operate around radio software, Phylis observed a portion-half-time operate modeling hats for the Powers Professional & seemed for conceivable acting jobs. After she page through that the seek would exist as conducted for the lead role of Claudia around Rose Franken’s hit play of the same title, she presented herself to David O. Selznick’s New York office but later fled in tears after what she thought was a bad reading. Selznick, all the same, overheard her audition & was impressed plenty to use his secretary call for her back. As the result an locate, she was signed to a vii season contract.

Selznick’s latest discovery was carefully groomed for stardom & given the fresh title - Jennifer Jones. Director King Vidor wwhen impressed by her screen test as Bernadette Soubirous for The Song of Bernadette and she won the desired role on top hundreds of applier. Jones won a Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Song of Bernadette (1943) on her Twenty-fifth birthday around 1944.

Above the next deuce decades, she appeared within a wide range of roles judiciously selected by Selznick. Her dark beauty & sensitive nature & severity appealed to audiences and she projected the variable range. Her initial angelic image, every bit projected inside her number one starring role, was the stark counterpoint trio years late after she was cast as a provocative half-breed around Selznick’s controversial Duel in the Sun (1946). Luminary films, additionally to the prior to mentioned, include Since You Went Away (1944), Cluny Brown (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Madame Bovary (1949), Ruby Gentry (1952), Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and Good Morning Miss Dove (1955).

Jones's foremost marriage to Robert Walker produced two sons, Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Walker, both of whom became actors. A few divorced within 1944. Jones married Selznick inside 1949, staying sustaining him until his dying inside 1965. Charted Selznick's dying, she semi-retired from either acting & appeared within exclusively two or three films. Her go appearance was the hard supporting role in The Towering Inferno (1974). Her girl sustaining Selznick, Mary Jennifer Selznick, committed suicide inside 1976. This led to Jones' interest within mental health issues.

She married multi-millionaire industrialist, art collector & altruist Norton Simon around 1971, and remained married to him until his demise in 1993. She is presently on the board of directors of the Norton Simon Museum within Los Angeles.

Jones occurs as breast cancer survivor. A late actress Susan Strasberg, married to a fellow actor surnamed 'Jones', known as her simply baby, the girl, 'Jennifer' fallowing this legenday Oscar winning actress called Jennifer Jones.

Academy Awards and nominations
1956 Nominated Love is a Many-Splendored Thing 1947 Nominated Duel in the Sun 1946 Nominated Love Letters 1945 Nominated Since You Went Away 1944 Won The Song of Bernadette

Filmography
1939 New Frontier 1939 ''Dick Tracy's G-Men 1943 The Song of Bernadette 1944 Since You Went Away 1945 Love Letters 1946 Cluny Brown 1946 Duel in the Sun 1948 Portrait of Jennie 1949 We Were Strangers 1949 Madame Bovary 1949 Gone to Earth (freed in the U.S. around 1952 when A Uncivilized Heart) 1952 Carrie 1952 Ruby Gentry 1953 Beat the Devil 1954 Indiscretion of an American Wife 1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955 Good Morning Miss Dove 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1957 A Farewell To Arms 1961 Tender Is The Night 1965 The Idol 1969 Cult of the Damned 1974 The Towering Inferno''

External sources
Oliver, Phillip. Jennifer Jones. [http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/jones.html] Retrieved February Three, 2005. Epstein, Edward. Portrait of Jennifer. Just released York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 0671740563

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