Jennifer Jones (1919-2009)

I have too long failed to mention that Jennifer Jones died. I was hopping to be able to sum up her career with something insightful and brief, but even though I’ve seen a representative sample of her work I don’t really have a verdict on her as an actress. She was good in some modest roles like in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and you can see some potential in films like Since You Went Away. But she was also in overwrought productions like Duel in the Sun, David O Selznick was obsessed with her and put her in almost anything he could, I believe she was once his mistress, and later of course they married. Anyway certainly an actress who left a moderately impressive filmography.