Jennifer Jones
Actor, Film actor
1919 – 2009
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
- David O. Selznick
(1949/07/13 - 1965/06/22) - Norton Simon
(1971/05/29 - 1993/06/02) - Robert Walker
(1939/01/02 - 1945/06/20)
- David O. Selznick
- 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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