Jennifer Jones

Also Credited As:

Jennifer Jones Simon, Phylis Isley, Phylis Walker, Phylis Lee Isley
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Biography

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 singular, often clumsy obsession with Jones' career would make her a staple lead in overwrought, …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

Phylis Lee Isley on March 2, 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Miss Dove

The Idol

Carol

Portrait of Jennie

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Indiscretion of an American Wife

Mary

The Song of Bernadette

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Tender Is the Night

Nicole Diver

Duel in the Sun

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Angel, Angel Down We Go

Astrid Steele

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Elizabeth

Gone to Earth

Hazel Woodus

A Farewell to Arms

Nurse Catherine Berkley

Cluny Brown

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Beat the Devil

Gwendolen Chelm

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

Han Suyin

The New Frontier

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The American Film Institute Salute to Lillian Gish

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The American Film Institute Salute to Gregory Peck

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Betsy

The Towering Inferno

Lisolette

The 59th Annual Academy Awards Presentation

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Going Hollywood: The War Years

Herself

The 70th Annual Academy Awards

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