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Jennifer Jones
Birthdate: March 2, 1919

Jennifer Jones

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
2.8175
8
total ranking of 2.8175
1950s
2.8901
11
total ranking of 2.8901
1960s
1.2623
3
total ranking of 1.2623
1970s
1.7103
2
total ranking of 1.7103
1980s
No Reviews
0
1990s
No Reviews
0
2000s
0.2600
1
total ranking of 0.2600
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Jennifer Jones is ranked overall as 2.6784 of of 4 stars2.6784

Jennifer Jones Movie Rankings

1
Jennifer Jones starring in Portrait of Jennie
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.9146 out of 4 stars for Portrait of Jennie2.9146
Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. ...more about Portrait of Jennie
2
Jennifer Jones starring in Towering Inferno
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.9056 out of 4 stars for Towering Inferno2.9056
Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. ...more about Towering Inferno
Actor Awards
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
3
Jennifer Jones starring in Beat the Devil
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.8985 out of 4 stars for Beat the Devil2.8985
A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. ...more about Beat the Devil
4
Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.8524 out of 4 stars for Song of Bernadette2.8524
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. ...more about Song of Bernadette
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress
6
Cluny Brown (1946)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.7970 out of 4 stars for Cluny Brown2.7970
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. ...more about Cluny Brown
  • Not Available on DVD
7
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.7711 out of 4 stars for Duel in the Sun2.7711
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chevez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. ...more about Duel in the Sun
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
8
Carrie (1952)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.6776 out of 4 stars for Carrie2.6776
Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister's husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Then she injures a finger and is fired. This is the 1890s. ...more about Carrie
9
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.6258 out of 4 stars for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing2.6258
Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. During the closing days of the Chinese Civil War, he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Nationalist general. ...more about Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
10
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.3748 out of 4 stars for Indiscretion of an American Wife2.3748
A married American woman has gotten involved with another man while visiting relatives in Rome. She decides that the time has come to break off the relationship, and she makes plans to return home to her husband. ...more about Indiscretion of an American Wife
12
We Were Strangers (1949)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.3049 out of 4 stars for We Were Strangers2.3049
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. ...more about We Were Strangers
13
Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.1309 out of 4 stars for Good Morning2.1309
Miss Dove is a strict disciplinary, plus a well respected teacher, who has inspired her students to individual greatness. One day during class, Miss Dove experiences great pain in her back, but continues with the class. ...more about Good Morning
  • Not Available on DVD
14
Madame Bovary (1949)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.1156 out of 4 stars for Madame Bovary2.1156
French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary. ...more about Madame Bovary
15
Gone to Earth (1950)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.0807 out of 4 stars for Gone to Earth2.0807
Hazel Woodus is a beautiful but innocent country girl who loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. She is given a rough time by her father but can escape to run barefoot through the woods when her harsh life gets too much for her. ...more about Gone to Earth
  • Not Available on DVD
16
Love Letters (1945)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 2.0045 out of 4 stars for Love Letters2.0045
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. ...more about Love Letters
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Not Available on DVD
17
Wild Heart, The (1952)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 1.8524 out of 4 stars for Wild Heart1.8524
A re-editing of _Gone to Earth (1950)_ (qv) after a disagreement and court case between director 'Michael Powell (I)' (qv) and producer 'David O. Selznick' (qv). Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. ...more about Wild Heart
  • Not Available on DVD
18
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1957)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 1.8250 out of 4 stars for Barretts of Wimpole Street1.8250
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. ...more about Barretts of Wimpole Street
  • Not Available on DVD
19
Idol, The (1966)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 1.6724 out of 4 stars for Idol1.6724
  • Not Available on DVD
20
Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 1.5994 out of 4 stars for Angel1.5994
The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped out, skydiving pseudo-reactionary pop stars, who take their beliefs of the American ideal to profoundly impossible heights. ...more about Angel
  • Not Available on DVD
21
Enraged New World, An (2002)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 1.3789 out of 4 stars for Enraged New World1.3789
A group of wayward astronauts returning from a long mission to Ganymede crash land on a planet very much like earth. The problem is that the mysterious inhabitants are murderous lunatics out to kill every one of them... or so it seems. ...more about Enraged New World
  • Not Available on DVD
22
Since You Went Away (1944)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 1.3744 out of 4 stars for Since You Went Away1.3744
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. ...more about Since You Went Away
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
23
Tender Is the Night (1962)
Jennifer Jones scores a combined 1.3163 out of 4 stars for Tender Is the Night1.3163
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Ruby Gentry (1952)
No Reviews Available
25
She Came to the Valley (1979)
No Reviews Available