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  Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-winning actress and widow of both Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick and industrialist Norton Simon, will have a number of her belongings auctioned. Jones, who died last year at the age of 90, was best known for her varied roles in old Hollywood blockbusters, chiefly St. Bernadette in Henry King's The Song of Bernadette (1943); the sultry half-breed Pearl Chavez in King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946); and the Eurasian doctor in love with journalist William Holden in another Henry King effort, the tearjerker Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955). Though less widely known, Jones was also chairwoman of the Norton Simon Foundation Board, a position she held for years following Simon's death in 1993. According to a Los Angeles Times report, Bonhams & Butterfields will be auctioning items from Jones' estate, including art work, furnishings, and porcelain. The Times adds that the Los [...]...

The late Jennifer Jones experienced the classic Tinseltown story of discovery and stardom, but also endured depression and death. Brittany Murphy was just the latest to follow in her footsteps

Mrs Simon, Mrs Selznick, Mrs Walker, Phylis Isley, Jennifer Jones – all of those names were offered her, like landlines in the storm, and she gazed on all of them with insufficient belief or conviction. There was a time, in the 80s and the 90s, when I did everything I could to get Jennifer Jones to speak to me, or just to see me so that she might decide she could speak to me. And all the time I was asking her, or her lawyers, I had another Mrs Selznick crowing in my ear in her best Pierre Hotel witch act, "She doesn't have anything to say. She won't remember. She doesn't care to remember."

Well, she's dead now, at 90. Gore Vidal...

Hollywood star who won an Oscar for her role as a saintly peasant girl in the 1943 film The Song of Bernardette

On the day of her 25th birthday, 2 March 1944, a fresh-faced, hitherto unknown performer stepped on to the stage of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles, to receive her best actress Oscar for her performance in the title role of The Song of Bernadette. It was officially the debut of Jennifer Jones, who has died aged 90. She had appeared four years earlier under her real name of Phyllis Isley, but only in a Dick Tracy serial and a B-western. (Actually, she had been born Phylis, but had added an "l".)

Ingrid Bergman, nominated for her performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls, said of The Song of Bernadette: "I cried all the way through, because Jennifer was so moving and because I realised I had lost the award." Jones,...

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones has died, aged 90.

A five-time Academy Award nominee, Jones won gold as Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1943, for her portrayal of a saintly nun in The Song of Bernadette.

She passed away on Thursday at her Malibu, California home.

Jones was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1940s and 1950s, and appeared in other films including 1948 western Duel in the Sun, 1955 drama Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and war movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, in 1956.

In her later years, she was deeply involved in overseeing California's Norton Simon Museum, as the widow of its founder, millionaire industrialist Norton Simon.

Jones is survived by a son, Robert Walker.

By Wrap Staff

Actress Jennifer Jones, who won the best actress Oscar for 1943's "The Song of Bernadette," died Thursday morning at her home in Malibu. She was 90.

Jones died of natural causes, according to a spokeswoman for the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena.

Jones had long been connected with the museum because of her marriage to industrialist Norton Simon; she had overseen the museum since his death in 1993.

She also was married to actor Robert Walker and t...