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| 1 | She married art collector - industrialist Norton Simon on a yacht off the coast of England. |
| 2 | Maternal granddaughter of George (May 6, 1855-December 26, 1906) and Lulu (née Talbot) Suber (August 12, 1859-November 20, 1904). Both died in Sacramento, California. |
| 3 | Daughter of Phillip Ross (November 26, 1892-May 27, 1976) and Flora Mae (Renée Zellweger Suber) Isley (March 26, 1886-May 29, 1969). Her father was born in Kansas City, Missouri and her mother used to be born in Sacramento, California. Both died in Dallas, Texas. |
| 4 | Suffered a stillbirth on December 16, 1950 at 6 months pregnant. |
| 5 | In 1957, she gave the impression back-to again in two ill-advised remakes: "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and "A farewell to arms." (The latter used to be her husband David O. Selznick's remaining film.) It would be five years before Jones returned to the display (1962's "Tender is the night"). |
| 6 | Co-starred with Joseph Cotten in 4 motion pictures: Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946), and Portrait of Jennie (1948). Cotten additionally narrated The Wild Heart (1952), by which Jones performed the lead. |
| 7 | Was the 22nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she received the Best Actress Oscar for The Song of Bernadette (1943) at The sixteenth Academy Awards on March 2, 1944. |
| 8 | Gave delivery to her third kid at age 35, a daughter Mary Jennifer Selznick on August 12, 1954. Child's father was her 2d husband, David O. Selznick. |
| 9 | Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 22, a son Michael Ross Walker (aka Michael Walker) on March 13, 1941. Child's father was her 1st [later ex] husband, Robert Walker. |
| 10 | Gave delivery to her 1st child at age 21, a son Robert Hudson Walker (aka Robert Walker Jr.) on April 15, 1940. Child's father was once her 1st [later ex] husband, Robert Walker. |
| 11 | She lives in California the place she contributes to various charities (mostly psychological health organizations) and presides over the Norton Simon Museum's Board of Directors (her past due husband's prestigious art museum in Pasadena). [October 2001] |
| 12 | Outlived all three of her husbands, and two of her kids. |
| 13 | She was regarded as for the lead position within the movie The Country Girl, however needed to bow out when she become pregnant. |
| 14 | Served as matron of honor at the wedding of Lauren Bacall to Jason Robards in Mexico on July 4, 1961. |
| 15 | Had 7 grandchildren, all from her son Robert Walker Jr.. |
| 16 | Was named president of the Norton Simon Museum when Simon became incapacitated via Guillain-Barre syndrome. She was given emeritus standing in 2003. |
| 17 | Was the daughter of the homeowners and stars of Isley Stock Col, a tent show that toured the Midwest. Became interested by acting while younger and gave the impression in her father or mother's displays. |
| 18 | Studied at Northwestern University ahead of specializing in acting on the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, the place she met her first husband Robert Walker. |
| 19 | An established yoga practitioner. |
| 20 | It was Jennifer, who was eager about Eastern philosophy, who persuaded husband Norton Simon to take his first go back and forth to India. Simon become captivated by the artwork of areas he had hardly thought to be and later changed into a major power within the Indian and Southeast Asian artwork marketplace. |
| 21 | Daughter Mary Jennifer Selznick, who was once vulnerable to emotional breakdowns and had issue accepting her father's dying back in 1965, plunged to her dying from the 22nd floor of a hotel in west Los Angeles in 1976 while Jennifer was once back in Tulsa, Oklahoma visiting her demise father. An post-mortem showed lines of morphine, barbiturates and alcohol in her device. The death used to be ruled a suicide. |
| 22 | After she reportedly attempted to devote suicide and used to be hospitalized, and used to be quickly in a coma after being found on the foot of a 400-foot cliff in Malibu, she were given strongly all in favour of psychological health problems. |
| 23 | She met her 3rd husband Norton Simon when he tried to buy the portrait of Jones utilized in her movie Portrait of Jennie (1948). Her romance with the multimillionaire philanthropist and artwork collector started at a birthday celebration hosted by fellow collector Walter Annenberg. |
| 24 | The late actress Susan Strasberg, a fellow breast most cancers sufferer who died of the disease in 1999, was married, at one time, to actor Christopher Jones and named their daughter Jennifer Robin Jones, within the actress's honor. |
| 25 | Stepmother of L. Jeffrey Selznick and Daniel Selznick. |
| 26 | Is one of 15 actresses who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a nun. The others, in chronological order, are: Gladys Cooper for The Song of Bernadette (1943); Ingrid Bergman for The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); Loretta Young and Celeste Holm for Come to the Stable (1949); Deborah Kerr for Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957); Audrey Hepburn for The Nun's Story (1959); Lilia Skala for Lilies of the Field (1963); Julie Andrews and Peggy Wood for The Sound of Music (1965); Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly for Agnes of God (1985), Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking (1995); Meryl Streep and Amy Adams for Doubt (2008). |
| 27 | Her first Oscar nomination for The Song of Bernadette (1943) marks her first of 4 consecutive nominations, a feat she shares with Thelma Ritter (1950-1953), Marlon Brando (1951-1954) Elizabeth Taylor (1957-1960) and Al Pacino (1972-1975). (Pacino and Brando's 4 consecutive nominations are the document for male actors. The female report is 5 in a row through Bette Davis (1938-1942) and Greer Garson (1941-1945).). |
| 28 | In Italy, almost all her motion pictures were dubbed by means of Lidia Simoneschi, apart from Beat the Devil (1953) where she was once dubbed by means of Rosetta Calavetta. |
| 29 | Was a just right buddy of Peggy Knudsen. |
| 30 | She is a breast most cancers survivor. |
| 31 | On November 9, 1967, she checked into a Malibu motel and took an overdose of napping drugs. She was once discovered unconscious on the seashore and rushed to a close-by sanatorium and sooner or later recovered. |
| 32 | Once had an interest in returning to the screen to play convicted murderess Jean Harris however abandoned the mission when Ellen Burstyn gave the impression in a a hit televised movie. |
| 33 | In 1980 she donated $1 million to establish the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education |
| 34 | Chairman of the Norton Simon Museum. |
| 35 | In 1981, she purchased the rights to Larry McMurtry's novel, "Terms of Endearment", with the purpose of starring in the film however director James Brooks told her that she was too outdated for the part. The position sooner or later went to Shirley MacLaine, who received an Oscar. |
| 36 | She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was initiated into the Tau bankruptcy (Northwestern) in 1937. |
| 37 | Attended Northwestern University. |
| 38 | Turned 25 years outdated at the day that she received the Oscar for The Song of Bernadette (1943). |
| 39 | Her daughter with David O. Selznick, Mary Jennifer Selznick, killed herself on May 11, 1976, most effective two days after Mother's Day. |
| 40 | Was represented via the John Robert Powers company, when she was a way type, within the Thirties. |
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