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Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones

16 movies on Netflix

Biography

Jennifer Jones was an American actress who began as a model in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before moving into film. After early parts in a 1939 western and serial, she was signed to a studio contract and renamed. Her third screen role, the lead in The Song of Bernadette (1943), won the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe. She earned further Academy Award nominations for Since You Went Away (1944), for Love Letters (1945), and for Duel in the Sun (1946), and later starred in Madame Bovary (1949), Ruby Gentry (1952), Beat the Devil (1953) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), the last bringing a fifth nomination. She also appeared in The Towering Inferno (1974), her final film, which earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and made a rare theatrical appearance in The Country Girl in 1966.

90years old at death

  • Born Tulsa
  • Died Malibu
  • Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
  • Phylis Lee Isley (birth name)Also credited as Jennifer Jones Simon

Movie Career

Films
16
Career span
31 years1943 to 1974

Genres

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  1. Big break

    Jones was signed to a seven-year contract by David O. Selznick after he overheard her audition for the play Claudia, even though she fled the reading in tears thinking she had done badly.

  2. Behind the award

    Jennifer Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Bernadette in The Song of Bernadette. She won in 1944 on her 25th birthday, and it was her third screen role.

  3. First role

    Jones got her first screen work under her maiden name, Phylis Isley, playing an ingenue in the Three Mesquiteers western New Frontier for Republic Pictures in 1939.

Jennifer Jones movies on Netflix

Best known for

The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.

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  1. Duel in the Sun1946 Drama, Romance, Westernas Pearl Chavez

    IMDb rating 6.711K votes

  2. The Song of Bernadette1943 Biography, Drama, Mysteryas Bernadette

    IMDb rating 7.68.5K votes

  3. Beat the Devil1953as Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm

    IMDb rating 6.412K votes

  4. Portrait of Jennie1948as Jennie Appleton

    IMDb rating 7.68.5K votes

  5. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing1955as Dr. Han Suyin

    IMDb rating 6.45.9K votes

  6. The Towering Inferno1974as Lisolette

    IMDb rating 7.054K votes

  7. Since You Went Away1944as Jane Hilton

    IMDb rating 7.55.6K votes

  8. Cluny Brown1946as Cluny Brown

    IMDb rating 7.44.7K votes

Most often with

William Dieterle directed three of these films, Henry King two and John Huston two. Joseph Cotten appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Films together

Box office

What Jennifer Jones's films earned in cinemas worldwide.

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Combined worldwide box office

$164 million

7 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.

Of the 16 films: 7 worldwide figure; 9 figure not found.

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Highest grossing

The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.

  1. 1
    The Towering Inferno1974as Lisolette
    $116M70.6% of the total
  2. 2
    Duel in the Sun1946as Pearl Chavez
    $20M12.4% of the total
  3. 3
    A Farewell to Arms1957as Catherine Barkley
    $20M12.2% of the total
  4. 4
    $4.3M2.6% of the total
  5. 5
    Madame Bovary1949as Emma Bovary
    $2.0M1.2% of the total
  6. 6
    Portrait of Jennie1948as Jennie Appleton
    $1.5M0.9% of the total
  7. 7
    Gone to Earth1950as Hazel Woodus
    $120K0.1% of the total

Awards

Three awards and honors, one of them major.

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Jennifer Jones's awards and nominations, grouped by award
YearAwardFilmResult
Academy Awards
1944Best ActressThe Song of BernadetteWon
Other honors
David di Donatello Award for Lifetime AchievementWon
Star on Hollywood Walk of FameHonored

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