Known for:	Portrait of Jennie, The Towering Inferno, Duel in the Sun
Birth name:	Phyllis Flora Isley
Birthday:	2 March 1919, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Height:	5' 7" (1.70 m)
Available Photos	18

Measurements: 33-24-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Was represented by the John Robert Powers agency as a fashion model in the 1930s. Mother of Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Walker. Her daughter with David O. Selznick, Mary Jennifer Selznick, killed herself on May 11, 1976, only two days after Mother's Day. Turned 25 years old on the day that she won the Oscar for The Song of Bernadette. Attended Northwestern University. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was initiated into the Tau chapter (Northwestern) in 1937. In 1981 she bought the rights to Larry McMurtry's novel "Terms of Endearment" with the intention of starring in the film but director James Brooks told her that she was too old for the part. The role eventually went to 'Shirley Maclaine' , who won an Oscar. Chairman of the Norton Simon Museum. In 1980 she donated $1 million to establish the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education Once had interest in returning to the screen to play convicted murderess Jean Harris but abandoned the project when Ellen Burstyn appeared in a successful televised movie. On November 9, 1967, she checked into a Malibu motel and took an overdose of sleeping pills. She was found unconscious on the beach and rushed to a nearby hospital and eventually recovered. She is a breast cancer survivor.

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