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Jennifer Jones

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Jennifer Jones Fast Facts:

Her parents were vaudeville performers.
Her father owned a movie-theater chain where her first films would eventually be screened.
Met first husband, actor Robert Walker, while attending American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
Was discovered and groomed by Hollywood power producer David O. Selznick, who cast her in The Song of Bernadette (1943), for which she won an Academy Award.
A love affair with Selznick resulted in divorces from their respective spouses.
An interest in charity work led to an appearance in a little-known wartime documentary short, The Fighting Generation, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock.
Interested in the part of Aurora Greenway in Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment, she purchased the rights to the novel but was considered too old to play the role. (It went to Shirley MacLaine, who won the Oscar.)
Took a strong interest in mental-heath issues after the suicides of her daughter Mary and the son of third husband Norton Simon, and established the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education in 1980.

Jennifer Jones Relationships:
Phillip Ross Isley - Father
Flora Mae Suber Isley - Mother
Robert Walker - Ex-husband
David O. Selznick - Husband (deceased)
Norton Simon - Husband (deceased)
Robert Walker Jr. - Son
Michael Walker - Son
Mary Jennifer Selznick - Daughter
Jennifer Jones Awards:
1955 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1944 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Nominee
1946 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1943 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Winner
1945 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
1944 Golden Globe: Actress in a Leading Role - Winner
1975 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Nominee
College:
Attended Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, NY