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At the age of 90, beauteous, sensitive, charming and graceful Jennifer Jones has faded into cinema history. Her career was stunning, to say the least, as she acted opposite some of the great leading men of her time, such as William Holden, Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, van Heflan, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, John Garfield, Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, and Jason Robards.
Her deepening relationship with and inevitable marriage to film mogul David O. Selznick both propelled and limited her movie career, for although he constantly tried to cast her in roles calculated to enhance said career, he sometimes cut her off from more artistically promising roles. Yet her filmogrpahy was nothing less than spectacular, including such hits as The Song of Bernadette (which won her an Academy Award) (1943), Duel in the Sun (1946), Cluny Brown (1946), Madame Bovary (1949), Carrie (1952), Ruby Gentry (also 1952), Beat the Devil (1953), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956). Her very last big screen film was the disaster genre epic, The Towering Inferno (1974).
Her role as Dr. Han Suyin opposite 50's leading man William Holden in Love is a Many Splendored Thing was not only one of the most touching film romances ever made, but the song of the same title became one of our most enduring love songs.
She was married three times, first to actor Robert Walker, whom however, could not compete with David Selznick for her affections, who won her over for her second marriage until his death in 1965. By then, though, her ambitions in cinema were already in decline. She was also not without personal tragedies during her career.
Jones eventually married the rich industrialist, philanthropist and art collector Norton Simon and ultimately launched a new career through him as a patroness of the arts, taking over management of his fabulous art collection and museum after his death.
We will remember you forever, Jennifer.
