David O. Selznick Articles

  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 [...]

Turner Classic Movies will present a four-film tribute to Jennifer Jones, who died yesterday at the age of 90, on Thursday, Jan. 7, beginning at 5 p.m. (PT). The four films are: Duel in the Sun (above, 1946), a campy Western in which Jones plays a fiery "half-breed" desired by two brothers, dour Joseph Cotten and smirky Gregory Peck. Veteran King Vidor was one of [...]

Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-winning star of the 1943 blockbuster The Song of Bernadette and the wife of Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick, died of “natural causes” earlier today at her home in Malibu. Jones was 90. In addition to her Bernadette Soubirous in Henry King’s film about the young French peasant who claimed to see [...]

Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda: Never a dull moment, whether fighting Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or romancing Madeleine Carroll Celebrating Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s 100th birthday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) on Wednesday, December 9, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Oscar-winning visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar-winning sound designer [...]