Jennifer Jones Tribute on TCM
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 the men who directed this attempt by David O. Selznick — Jones was his protegee and future wife — to achieve two goals with one single megaproduction: to create another Gone with the Wind and to transform his beloved Jennifer into a superstar. Selznick failed on both counts even though Duel [...]
by Andre Soares | December 18, 2009
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Jennifer Jones on TCM
Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones in Portrait of Jennie. Photo: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.
Jennifer Jones‘ "Summer Under the Stars" day on Turner Classic Movies is Monday, Aug. 17.
A very popular actress in the 1940s and 1950s, Jennifer Jones isn’t as well remembered today as she should be. After all, she won an Oscar in 1943 for her performance as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette, and starred in three of the biggest box-office hits of the ’40s — the aforementioned The Song of Bernadette, Since You Went Away, and Duel in the Sun — and two major hits of the 1950s, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and A Farewell to Arms.
So, why isn’t she better remembered? Lack of good [...]