I can't believe no one's posted this.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/jennifer.jones.obit/
Not a great actress, but so well-used in Cluny Brown and especially Beat the Devil, in which she's the only one in the cast who's in on the joke.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:08 (sixteen years ago)
Can't believe she was still with us until so recently. RIP.
― Memento Morel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:46 (sixteen years ago)
My little tribute to her.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2009 02:32 (sixteen years ago)
i didn't know she was still alive either. r.i.p. i think i've only seen her in portrait of jennie and beat the devil. oh i guess towering inferno too, but i barely remember that movie, much less her.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 December 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)
Over on the rolling thread -- but good to have this separate one.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 December 2009 03:56 (sixteen years ago)
Watching Cluny Brown now...a total charmer, one of Lubitsch's three or four best.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2009 03:58 (sixteen years ago)
I think the first 2 films I saw her in were The Song of Bernadette and The Towering Inferno.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 04:26 (sixteen years ago)
I had forgotten she was married to Robert Walker before Selznick. (so JRedd, her son is Charlie X!)
Must catch up w/ Minnelli's Madame Bovary:
http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2009/12/jennifer-jones-march-2-1919-december-17.html
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)
Oh man, RIP
― Which one's George Clinton? (Tom D.), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:16 (sixteen years ago)
I knew all about that, Morbius, it is a very sad story- Robert Walker never got over it- but I didn't want to bring that up and bring everybody down. (Although since this is an Alfred thread, I almost said "I had no use for her, but RIP anyway")
― alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2009 16:17 (sixteen years ago)
That's about right.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2009 23:14 (sixteen years ago)
rip jj, u were madd hot.
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Friday, 18 December 2009 23:15 (sixteen years ago)
her Wyler Carrie is better than you-know-who's
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:29 (sixteen years ago)
cluny brown really is terrific - watched it on xmas eve on TCM last year, robert osborne was so stoked to be intro'ing it
― cockslap twins (donna rouge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:31 (sixteen years ago)
Olivier's the one I remember.
xpost
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 December 2009 13:48 (sixteen years ago)
Aw. Just watched Madame Bovary at Thanksgiving and she's ace. RIP
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:02 (sixteen years ago)
Beat the Devil was a fine film. I guess that leaves only Bogey alive from the original cast.
― Freedom, Sunday, 20 December 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)
ha ha? Gina Lollobrigida is alive (I saw her get onstage for a minute at a Liza Minnelli show a couple summers ago).
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 December 2009 07:01 (sixteen years ago)
Hmmm, so she is.
― Freedom, Sunday, 20 December 2009 12:37 (sixteen years ago)
Was the only one that Fred Flintstone sang a song about.
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2009 12:45 (sixteen years ago)