Jennifer Jones

Actor, Film actor

1919 – 2009

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Who was Jennifer Jones?

Jennifer Jones was an American Oscar-winning actress during the Hollywood golden years. Jones, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1943 The Song of Bernadette, was nominated five times for the Academy Awards. She married three times, most notably to film producer David O. Selznick.

Jones starred in more than twenty films over a thirty year career, going into semi-retirement following the death of her husband, David O. Selznick, in 1965. In 1980, she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation For Mental Health And Education after her daughter's suicide. In later life, Jones withdrew from public life to live in quiet retirement with her son and his family in Malibu, California.

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Born
Mar 2, 1919
Tulsa
Also known as
  • Phylis Lee Isley
  • Jennifer Jones Simon
  • Phylis Isley
  • Phyllis Walker
  • Phyllis Isley
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Northwestern University
  • American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Lived in
  • Tulsa
Died
Dec 17, 2009
Malibu

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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