Jennifer Jones

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1940–1948: Career beginnings

Robert Walker Jr. (1940–2019), and Michael Walker (1941–2007), a short time after Jones married Walker. Though Walker continued to work in radio sales, Jones also worked part-time modelling for the Powers Agency and posed for Harper's Bazaar when searching for acting jobs. She notified auditions for the lead role in Rose Franken's hit play Claudia in the summer of 1941 but then collapsed in tears after what she considered a poor reading. Selznick, on the other hand, had overhearded her audition and was intrigued enough to demand his secretary call her back. Following an interview, she was committed to a seven-year deal.

Jennifer Jones, she had been specifically preparing for fame and given a new name: Jennifer Jones. Director Henry King was captivated by her screen test as Bernadette Soubirous (1943), which was a highly coveted role among hundreds of applicants. Bernadette, her third screen appearance, was nominated for Best Actress on her 25th birthday in 1944.

Jones, who is on the rise to fame for The Song of Bernadette, began a relationship with producer Selznick. She broke with Walker in November 1943, co-starred with him in Since You Went Away (1944), and officially divorced him in June 1945. She was nominated for her second Academy Award, this time for Best Supporting Actress. In the film noir Love Letters (1945), she received her third Academy Award nomination for her role opposite Joseph Cotten.

Jones' dark appearance and first saintly appearance (from her first film appearance) was a stark contrast three years later when she was portrayed as a vivacious biracial woman in Selznick's controversial Western Duel in the Sun (1946), where she played a Mestiza orphanage in Texas who falls in love with an Anglo man. (played by Gregory Peck). She appeared in Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy Cluny Brown as a working-class English woman who falls in love right before World War II. Portrait of Jennie, a fantasy film released in 1948, was based on Robert Nathan's novella. It brought her co-star Cotten, who portrayed a painter who became obsessed with her character, the titular Jennie, back to her family unit. It was a commercial fail, earning only $1.5 million against a $4 million budget.

After going on a five-year relationship, Jones married Selznick at sea on July 13, 1949, en route to Europe. She appeared in many films over the next two decades, and she and his partner developed a working relationship. Jones appeared in John Huston's adventure film We Were Strangers for the year they married. The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote that Jones' appearance was lacking, saying: "There is no insight nor enthusiasm in the stifled creature she creates." She was later cast as the title character of Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary (1949), a role that had been planned for Lana Turner but which Turner dropped. Variety called the film "interesting to watch, but impossible to feel," though it was announced that "Jones answers to every request for direction and script." Jones appeared in Powell and Pressburger's fantasy Gone to Earth in 1950 as a stitiful gypsy woman in the English countryside.

Jones appeared in William Wyler's tragedy Carrie (1952), opposite Laurence Olivier. "Mr. Olivier gives the film its closest contact with the film," Crowther of The New York Times writes: "Mr. Olivier gives the film its closest contact with the film, while Miss Jones' soft, seraphic portrait of Carrie takes it furthest away." She co-starred with Charlton Heston in Ruby Gentry in 1952, portraying a femme fatale in rural North Carolina who is embroiled in a murder plot after marrying a local man. Joan Fontaine was previously considered "unable to play backwoods" and was "unsuited to play backwoods." Variety characterized the film as a "sordid tragedy [with] neither Jennifer Jones nor Charlton Heston gaining any sympathy in their characters."

Jones was portrayed opposite Montgomery Clift in Italian director Vittorio De Sica's Terminal Station (Italian: Stazione Termini), a Rome-set drama about an American woman and an Italian man in 1953. Selznick's film had a turbulent run in production history, with Selznick and De Sica arguing over the film's screenplay and tone. Clift sided with De Sica and Selznick was reportedly branded "an interfering fuck-face" on set. Jones herself was mourning the recent death of her first husband, Robert Walker, and also the fact that her two sons were staying in Switzerland during production. Terminal Station was shown at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival and then relaunched in the United States in a truncated form, bearing the word Indiscretion of an American Wife. Jones co-starred Humphrey Bogart in his film Beat the Devil (1953), an adventure comedy co-starring John Huston. Following its debut, the film was a box-office disaster and was critically panned on release, causing even Bogart to withdraw from it. However, it would devalue in later years from writers such as Roger Ebert, who included it in his list of "Great Movies" and cited it as the first "camp" film in later years. Mary Jennifer Selznick, Jones' third child, was born in August 1954.

Jones was later featured as Eurasian doctor Han Suyin in the film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), which earned her her her fifth Academy Award nomination. "Lovely and ardent," Crowther of The New York Times praised her performance. Her smoky beauty reflects both hope and sadness. She appeared as a schoolteacher in Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), opposite Robert Stack, followed by a lead role opposite Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a drama about a World War II soldier.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning appeared as Elizabeth Barrett Browning in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a 1930 play by Rudolf Besier. She continued this with a lead in Ernest Hemingway's adaptation A Farewell to Arms (1957), which was opposite Rock Hudson. Variety said that "the friendship between Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones never takes on realistic terms." Jones' next project, another literary adaptation (this time of F. Scott Fitzgerald), came five years later in 1962's Tender Is the Night, in which she portrayed Nicole Diver's empathetic husband's falling in love with another woman while in the south of France.

Jones, a registered Republican who endorsed Dwight Eisenhower's campaign in the 1952 presidential election and was of the Catholic faith, was a registered Republican who was in favor of the Catholic Church.

Selznick died on June 22, 1965, and Jones semi-retired from acting after his death. Her first appearance in four years was as the mother of an adult son in the Swing Sixties London who has an affair with his best friend.

Jones appeared in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl revival in 1966, co-starring Rip Torn, at New York's City Center. Jones attempted suicide on November 9, 1967, the same day her close friend, Charles Bickford died of a blood disease, but he jumped from the cliff overlooking Malibu Beach. It was news of Bickford's death that triggered Jones' suicide attempt, according to biographer Paul Green. She was hospitalized in a coma from the accident before recovering. She appeared on Down We Go in 1969 about a teenage girl who manipulates her family using her friendship with a rock band.

Jones married Norton Simon, a multi-millionaire industrialist, art collector, and philanthropist from Portland, Oregon, on May 29, 1971. The wedding was held aboard a tugboat five miles off the coast of England, and was conducted by Unitarian Minister Eirion Phillips. Simon had attempted to purchase a portrait of her that was used in the film Portrait of Jennie years before; Simon later met Jones at a party hosted by fellow industrialist and art collector Walter Annenberg. Her last big-screen appearance came in the smash-hit disaster film The Towering Inferno (1974), which was concerned with the burning of a San Francisco skyscraper. A Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress was given to her for her role as a doomed visitor in the building. Paintings were lent to the work by Jones' husband Simon's art gallery in the beginning of the film.

Mary Jones' 21-year-old daughter, Mary—then a student at Occidental College — died by suicide after falling from the roof of a 22-story apartment hotel in downtown Los Angeles two years ago. Jones later expressed an interest in mental health problems as a result. She founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education in 1979, marrying Robert, Robert's own son, who died by suicide in 1969). One of Jones' main objectives with the Foundation was to reduce mental illness. "I crept when I confess I've been suicidal and had mental disorders, but why would I?" In 1980, Jones said that he had lived in the United States. "I hope we can reeducate the world to see there is no more need for stigma in mental disorders than there is for cancer." She also admitted that she had been a patient of psychotherapy since age 24.

Jones spent the remainder of her life outside of the public eye. She resigned as President of Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, four years before her husband Simon's death in June 1993, and Jennifer Jones Simon was named Chairman of the Board of Trustees, President and Executive Officer. She began working with architect Frank Gehry and landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power on renovating the museum and gardens in 1996. She served as the director of the Norton Simon Museum until 2003, when she was granted emerita status.

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