Jennifer Jones
Highest Rated: 94% Cluny Brown (1946)
Lowest Rated: 8% A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Birthday: Mar 2, 1919
Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
She was the proverbial middle-American beauty made an overnight star by the smitten Hollywood big shot, and made good on it with five Oscar nominations and one statue. Only a few years after he had made Vivien Leigh the dark-horse victor of his Scarlett O'Hara sweepstakes, David O. Selznick unveiled Jennifer Jones as his latest discovery in "The Song of Bernadette" in 1943, an American film debut that, like Leigh's, would earn her the Best Actress accolade at the next year's Academy Awards. Selznick's dedication to Jones' career would make her a staple lead in star-helmed romances such as "Duel In the Sun" (1946), "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955) and "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" (1956), as well the subject of the storied producer's own romantic zeal - yielding an enigmatic legacy of a movie star with a memorable body of work.
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70% | 72% | The Towering Inferno | Liselotte (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Cult of the Damned | Astrid Steele (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Idol | Carol (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Tender Is the Night | Nicole Diver (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Elizabeth Barrett (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 8% | 36% | A Farewell to Arms | Nurse Catherine Barkley (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 71% | 73% | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Betsy Rath (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Good Morning, Miss Dove | Miss Dove (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 53% | 56% | Love Is a Many Splendored Thing | Dr. Han Suyin (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 72% | 54% | Beat the Devil | Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 43% | 39% | Indiscretion of an American Wife | Mary Forbes (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 71% | 58% | Carrie | Carrie Meeber (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 63% | 50% | Ruby Gentry | Ruby Gentry (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Gone to Earth | Hazel Woodus (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 73% | 67% | We Were Strangers | China Valdez (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 87% | 85% | Portrait of Jennie | Jennie Appleton (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 78% | 55% | Duel in the Sun | Pearl Chavez (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 94% | 78% | Cluny Brown | Cluny Brown (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Love Letters | Singleton (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 83% | 79% | Since You Went Away | Jane Deborah Hilton (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 88% | 80% | The Song of Bernadette | Bernadette (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Frontier Horizon | Celia Braddock (Character) | - | 1939 |