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Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental-health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned more than five decades, she was nominated for an Academy Award five times, including one win for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
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entertainment · American actress (1919–2009) · film actor · actor · model · also Jennifer Jones, Phylis Lee Isley, Jennifer Jones Simon, Jones
Born 2 March 1919 · Died 17 December 2009 · Q189895
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2026· 4 entries
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2009· 1 entry
Died 2009-12-17.
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1996· 1 entry
Began working with architect Frank Gehry and landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power to renovate the museum and gardens
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1989· 1 entry
And appeared at the 70th (1998) and 75th (2003) Academy Awards as part of the shows' tributes to past Oscar winners
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1980· 2 entries
Jones said: "I cringe when I admit I've been suicidal, had mental problems, but why should I
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Founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education
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1979· 1 entry
With husband Simon (whose son Robert died by suicide in 1969), she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education, which she ran until 2003
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1976· 2 entries
Jones's 21-year-old daughter, Mary, a student at Occidental College, died by suicide by jumping from the roof of a 22-floor apartment hotel in downtown Los Angeles
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Jones became deeply involved in mental health education
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1971· 1 entry
Jones married her third husband Norton Simon, a multimillionaire industrialist, art collector and philanthropist from Portland, Oregon
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1969· 1 entry
About a teenage girl who uses her association with a rock band to manipulate her family
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1967· 1 entry
The same day on which her close friend Charles Bickford died of a blood infection, Jones attempted suicide
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1966· 1 entry
Jones made a rare theatrical appearance in the revival of Clifford Odets' The Country Girl, costarring Rip Torn, at New York's City Center
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1965· 2 entries
And after his death, Jones semiretired from acting
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Jones married industrialist Norton Simon and entered semi-retirement
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1957· 1 entry
Starred as the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the historical drama The Barretts of Wimpole Street, based on the 1930 play by Rudolf Besier
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1953· 2 entries
Jones was cast opposite Montgomery Clift in Italian director Vittorio De Sica's Terminal Station (Stazione termini), a drama set in Rome about a romance between an American woman and an Italian man
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Jones teamed again with director John Huston to star in his film Beat the Devil (1953), an adventure comedy costarring Humphrey Bogart
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1952· 1 entry
Costarred with Charlton Heston in Ruby Gentry, playing a femme fatale in rural North Carolina who becomes embroiled in a murder conspiracy after marrying a local man
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1950· 1 entry
Jones starred in the Powell and Pressburger-directed fantasy Gone to Earth as a superstitious gypsy woman in the English countryside
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1949· 3 entries
En route to Europe after a five-year relationship
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Jones married film producer David O
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Jones starred opposite John Garfield in John Huston's adventure film We Were Strangers
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1946· 1 entry
Starred as the title character in Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy Cluny Brown as a working-class English woman who falls in love just before World War II
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1944· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Song of Bernadette (1944).
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On her 25th birthday, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Bernadette, her third screen role
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1939· 1 entry
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1939).
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1925· 1 entry
Isley enrolled at Edgemere Public School in Oklahoma City, then attended Monte Cassino, a Catholic girls school and junior college in Tulsa
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1919· 2 entries
The daughter of Flora Mae (née Suber) and Phillip Ross Isley
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Born 1919-03-02.
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