The Song of Bernadette Articles

Jennifer Jones, Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones' Auction to Include DUEL IN THE SUN Screenplay Lot No: 7025 Golden Globe award for "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing," 1955 The gold-colored metal globe atop a white marble base with a placard on front engraved "To / Jennifer Jones / For Her / Performance in / Love is a Many-Splendored Thing / 1955 / HFPA" [Hollywood [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

Set in a 17th-century Danish village, Carl Theodor Dreyer's masterful Vredens dag / Day of Wrath is a stark, but deeply felt indictment against religious fanaticism and intolerance. Moving performances by ingénue Lisbeth Modin and accused witch Anna Svierkier add a touch of humanity to the horrors shown on screen. It is not a coincidence that Vredens Dag was made in 1943, a time when [...]