Reply #253: Jennifer Jones dies at age 90

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/jennifer.jones.obit/index.html

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Jennifer Jones, who won the best actress Oscar for a 1943 film, died Thursday at age 90, according to a family spokesman.

Jones starred in two dozen movies and was nominated for Academy Awards five times in her 35-year film career.

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She changed her name to Jennifer Jones when she moved to Hollywood in the early 1940s for a screen test with legendary producer David O. Selznick.

Her first major movie was "The Song of Bernadette" in 1943. Her portrayal of Bernadette Soubirous, a peasant girl in 19th century France, won her the best actress Oscar.

Jones earned Oscar nominations in each of the next three years -- for Selznick's "Since You Went Away" in 1944, "Love Letters" in 1945 and Selznick's "Duel in the Sun" in 1946.

Jones, who divorced Walker in 1945, married Selznick in 1949. She and Selznick had a daughter together.

A fifth Oscar nomination came in 1955 for her co-starring role with William Holden in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing."

Jones accepted few acting jobs after her performance in "A Farewell to Arms" in 1957.

My favorite Jennifer Jones performance was in 'Portrait of Jennie' with Joseph Cotten.....