She married art collector - industrialist Norton Simon on a yacht off the coast of England.
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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.
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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 was born in Sacramento, California. Both died in Dallas, Texas.
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Suffered a stillbirth on December 16, 1950 at 6 months pregnant.
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In 1957, she appeared back-to back in two ill-advised remakes: "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and "A farewell to arms." (The latter was her husband David O. Selznick's last film.) It would be five years before Jones returned to the screen (1962's "Tender is the night").
Was the 22nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Song of Bernadette (1943) at The 16th Academy Awards on March 2, 1944.
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Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 35, a daughter Mary Jennifer Selznick on August 12, 1954. Child's father was her 2nd husband, David O. Selznick.
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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.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 21, a son Robert Hudson Walker (aka Robert Walker Jr.) on April 15, 1940. Child's father was her 1st [later ex] husband, Robert Walker.
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She lives in California where she contributes to various charities (mostly mental health organizations) and presides over the Norton Simon Museum's Board of Directors (her late husband's prestigious art museum in Pasadena). [October 2001]
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Outlived all three of her husbands, and two of her children.
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She was considered for the lead role in the movie The Country Girl, but had to bow out when she became pregnant.
Was named president of the Norton Simon Museum when Simon became incapacitated by Guillain-Barre syndrome. She was given emeritus status in 2003.
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Was the daughter of the owners and stars of Isley Stock Col, a tent show that toured the Midwest. Became interested in acting while young and appeared in her parent's shows.
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Studied at Northwestern University before focusing on acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she met her first husband Robert Walker.
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A longtime yoga practitioner.
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It was Jennifer, who was fascinated by Eastern philosophy, who persuaded husband Norton Simon to take his first trip to India. Simon became captivated by the art of regions he had hardly considered and later became a major force in the Indian and Southeast Asian art market.
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Daughter Mary Jennifer Selznick, who was prone to emotional breakdowns and had difficulty accepting her father's death back in 1965, plunged to her death from the 22nd floor of a hotel in west Los Angeles in 1976 while Jennifer was back in Tulsa, Oklahoma visiting her dying father. An autopsy showed traces of morphine, barbiturates and alcohol in her system. The death was ruled a suicide.
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After she reportedly tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized, and was temporarily in a coma after being found at the foot of a 400-foot cliff in Malibu, she got strongly involved in mental health issues.
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She met her third husband Norton Simon when he tried to buy the portrait of Jones used in her film Portrait of Jennie (1948). Her romance with the multimillionaire philanthropist and art collector started at a party hosted by fellow collector Walter Annenberg.
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The late actress Susan Strasberg, a fellow breast cancer victim who died of the disease in 1999, was married, at one time, to actor Christopher Jones and named their daughter Jennifer Robin Jones, in the actress's honor.
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 record for male actors. The female record is 5 in a row by Bette Davis (1938-1942) and Greer Garson (1941-1945).).
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.
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Once had an 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.
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In 1980 she donated $1 million to establish the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education
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.
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She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was initiated into the Tau chapter (Northwestern) in 1937.
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Attended Northwestern University.
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Turned 25 years old on the day that she won the Oscar for The Song of Bernadette (1943).
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Her daughter with David O. Selznick, Mary Jennifer Selznick, killed herself on May 11, 1976, only two days after Mother's Day.
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Was represented by the John Robert Powers agency, when she was a fashion model, in the 1930s.
