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Actress Jennifer Jones dead at 90

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Published: Dec. 17, 2009 at 4:18 PM

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Hollywood movie star Jennifer Jones died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Malibu, Calif., a spokeswoman said. She was 90.

Born Phylis Isley in Tulsa, Okla., Jones was famous for her marriages to actor Robert Walker, producer David O. Selznick and industrialist-art collector Norton Simon, as well as for her Oscar-winning portrayal of the title character in 1943's "The Song of Bernadette." Her other film credits include "Since You Went Away," "Love Letters," "Duel in the Sun," "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "A Farewell to Arms," "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" and "The Towering Inferno."

Leslie C. Denk, a spokeswoman for the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, confirmed Jones's death to the Los Angeles Times.

Jones reportedly supervised the museum after Simon's death in 1993.

The Times said the actress is survived by her son Robert Walker Jr., eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Her son Michael Walker died in 2007 and Mary Jennifer, her daughter with Selznick, died in 1975.

Topics: David O. Selznick, Jennifer Jones, Robert Walker
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