When Jennifer Jones arrived in Hollywood in 1939, she still called herself Phylis Isley. Her face and especially her eyes drew the attention of the producer David O. Selznick, who did not only allow her a great career but also fell in love with her and finally married Jennifer Jones in 1949. For her role in The Song of Bernadette, she won an Oscar as best actress. Between the years 1946 and 1948, she consolidated her fame as either the innocent adolescent or the passionate lover: e.g. in Cluny Brown, Duel in the Sun or Portrait of Jennie.
Since You Went Away (1944): $9,866.66

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.