Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90

Yahoo - AP ^ | 12/17/09 | Bob Thomas

[colorado tanker]

Thanks, Joe. She was quite a lady.

[good old days]

I loved Since You Went Away. Rest in peace.

[Peter Horry]

Post 3

Now THAT is naughty, in a nice way.

[Sans-Culotte]

One of my all time favorites.
Loved, ‘Portrait of Jennie’.
The great stars are almost gone. Sad.

Portrait of Jennie is an all-time favorite of mine, too. I loved the painterly look of the film and the Debussy music. I a not particularly sad at her passing. She did live to be 90, which is a ripe old age. Actually I thought she had died long ago, so the news of her death means she lived longer than I'd thought.

[Borges]

Only three Oscar winning performers from the 1940s are left: Olvia De Haviland, Joan Fontaine and Celete Holm.

[Lazamataz]

Here she is looking almost 2009-level in her sauciness. You could see any of the current starlets in this kind of pose:

[jtal]

RIP Jennifer Jones.

She was lovely, no question about it.

Check out the home-front WWII movie “Since You Went Away”, one of my favorites and very poignant.

[DollyCali]

BTTT

[Peter Horry]

This is one of my favorites, was a western junkie in my preteens. Most of the stars are gone and one more, of the few left, has joined them. There may be a handfull of current artists that can match them but it's not many.

[PLMerite]

Ah, the good old days, when hot women were laying out in the desert to be tripped over...

[Stentor]

I never saw “RIP.” What other movies was she in?

You have an apt handle.

[WVKayaker]

I met her when she dropped in on a tour of the Pacific, in 66 or 67. I was on a tin can (Perkins) following the Coral Sea, and she heloed from escort to escort, and "visited the troops". I was taking pics, in lieu of nobody official to record it (I was FT/G). I will look for some of my pics of her. I've got a polaroid with her autograph on the back... (offers?)

She went through the ship, even into the Snipe territory, and then lifted off into the heavens again. It was a short visit with a star, and she made her time worthwhile. She wasn't still a young'n, but I remember watching those unbuttoned top two... and was paid off generously. She was a good lift to our spirits, while watching the waves go by, and the jets take off and land!

[WVKayaker]

But, she LOVED ME!!! nah, nah, nah!

Jenner Jones, c. 1967

[nanetteclaret]

Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine are sisters.

[captbarney]

Duel in the Sun was banned,with a “condemned” rating, by the Catholic Church

[Richard Kimball]

They were Goddesses back then, and they had more talent in their little finger than many of todays top stars have in their whole bodies.

They were kept further away from the public, and their images were more carefully cultivated. The only photos you saw of Lauren Bacall or Joan Crawford were studio shots. Their rants, insanities, sexual escapades and drug problems were kept under wraps by the studios.

Under it all, they were people. Just like today, some good, some bad.

[Peter Horry]

"Ah, the good old days, when hot women were laying out in the desert to be tripped over..."

Yep, as well as other places.

[Borges]

It was nicknamed ‘Lust in the Dust’.

[Borges]

And they haven’t spoken in decades.

[devolve]

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Great post potlatch -

Two of her many wonderful roles on the silver screen -