Jennifer Jones Nominated for five Academy Awards, actress Jennifer Jones died Thursday at 90. Her first major movie was "The Song of Bernadette" in 1943. Her portrayal of Bernadette Soubirous, a peasant girl in 19th-century France who had visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, won her the best actress Oscar. She also earned Oscar nominations for "Since You Went Away" in 1944, "Love Letters" in 1945, "Duel in the Sun" in 1946 and "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" in 1955 in which she co-starred with William Holden. She was born Phylis Lee Isley in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and later changed her name to Jennifer Jones in the early 1940s after a screen test for legendary producer David O. Selznick, whom she later married. Her last film appearance was a cameo role in the 1974 star-studded disaster movie "The Towering Inferno."
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