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Jennifer Jones: A Hollywood Babe: Touched Deeply By Suicide She Worked For Mental Health
https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 2nd March, 2023 | Ozguy1945

Posted on 03/01/2023 4:08:14 PM PST by Ozguy1945

Much of the greatness of America, in my honest Australian opinion, lies in the First Amendment.

In this God-given life of ours, addressing or solving most of our problems requires discussion.

For quality discussion to happen, speech must be free.

Jennifer Jones was a Hollywood star with an industrialist husband, Norton Simon, when she lost her only daughter to suicide.

She set up the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation to support education for mental health.

God Bless Freedom

It lets us be the best we can be.

God Bless America

Socialist Left governed Australia needs to learn from you.


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; freespeech; jenniferjones; learnhowtopost; suicide; vanity
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1 posted on 03/01/2023 4:08:14 PM PST by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945
Hmmmm, kind of interesting they left out that her husband killed himself when she left him for a bigger Hollywood player.

Their son looked just like him.

2 posted on 03/01/2023 4:12:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Ozguy1945
My favorite Jennifer Jones movie is "Portrait of Jennie" with Joseph Cotten. Marvelous, beautiful, haunting. It's hard to find the words to describe it. Gives me goosebumps.

3 posted on 03/01/2023 4:17:03 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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4 posted on 03/01/2023 4:18:08 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

That’s the first one of hers to come to my mind (at the moment, the only one, brain is in delay mode). Both she and Cotton were excellent.


5 posted on 03/01/2023 4:31:19 PM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Ozguy1945

Jennifer Jones’ 1st husband Robert Walker was in “Strangers on a Train” and “Thirty Seconds over Tokyo”. Her son Robert Walker Jr was in the Star Trek TOS episode “Charlie X”.


6 posted on 03/01/2023 4:32:13 PM PST by DFG
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To: Ozguy1945

Jennifer Jones became known for her role in the movie “Song of Bernadette” — about Mary’s apparitions at Lourdes.


7 posted on 03/01/2023 4:32:41 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: skr

“Song of Bernadette”, 1943.


8 posted on 03/01/2023 4:35:35 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: nickcarraway

She starred as a very young, and beautiful, woman as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette, a 1943 feature motion picture about the miracle of Our Lady of Lourdes and related subsequent events. It’s very good, well acted. Vincent Price has a prominent role as the Imperial Prosecutor and is very entertaining. Catholics of any age will find it inspiring. A high quality video version is easily found and watched on YouTube.


9 posted on 03/01/2023 4:40:33 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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Great movie.


10 posted on 03/01/2023 4:41:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Obviously I agree.


11 posted on 03/01/2023 4:42:30 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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It's funny, in Beat the Devil, all the men in the movie are ignoring her, and paying attention to Gina Lollobrigida. I had a hard time believing that.
12 posted on 03/01/2023 4:42:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Girl next door type.


13 posted on 03/01/2023 4:44:31 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Ozguy1945

also starred with William Holden in “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”


14 posted on 03/01/2023 4:50:17 PM PST by Ikemeister
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To: Ozguy1945

I’ll always remember her as the impulsive (and blonde) fabulist in the parody caper movie “Beat the Devil.” She was the perfect comic foil.


15 posted on 03/01/2023 4:56:47 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I agree. I saw ‘Portrait of Jennie’ when I was a kid. ‘Haunting’ is a good description. Made in an age that is gone.


16 posted on 03/01/2023 5:01:31 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Ditto. Beautiful Debussy music. Beautiful photography. The artist’s canvas look given to various scenes. Philosophy and quotes from poets and the characters themselves. Like you said, haunting. Joseph Cotton is also one of my favorite actors.


17 posted on 03/01/2023 5:07:24 PM PST by ClaytonForester
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Ditto. Beautiful Debussy music. Beautiful photography. The artist’s canvas look given to various scenes. Philosophy and quotes from poets and the characters themselves. Like you said, haunting. Joseph Cotton is also one of my favorite actors.


18 posted on 03/01/2023 5:07:50 PM PST by ClaytonForester
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To: nickcarraway

Twelve Oscar nominations, a bunch of wins. Practically swept the Golden Globes. Hollywood couldn’t croak out a similar (smiling on the One True Faith) film these days. That said, The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection, due out in 2024, looks very promising, based on interviews with Mel Gibson. Gibson’s treatment of what Catholics refer to as Christ’s harrowing of hell promises to be fascinating, astonishing. Every man and woman in the bible that died justified was brought out of the Bosom of Abraham by Christ, who that day gave them all glorious entry into heaven and the beatific vision. The creative opportunities for the right scriptwriters/director/producer are unlimited. Gibson really looks like he’s putting his heart, spirit and soul into the project.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5795232/


19 posted on 03/01/2023 5:14:22 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Ozguy1945
She had a long and turbulent life in the ultra-pressurized world of Hollywood at its peak years and into its later fragmentation.

A good, brief bio in about 50 lines gives a sense of the super high-voltage environment that surrounded the life of this shy woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Beautiful Survivor: The Stranger-Than-Fiction Journey Of Jennifer Jones

20 posted on 03/01/2023 5:14:26 PM PST by henbane ( )
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