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Article: Hardcovers in Brief
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 5, 1995
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NONFICTION Portrait of Jennifer: A Biography of Jennifer Jones,
by Edward Z. Epstein (Simon & Schuster, $25). Jennifer Jones won the
best-actress Oscar for her first featured role -- as the saintly
heroine of "The Song of Bernadette." A couple of years later she was
playing a bawdy chambermaid in Ernst Lubitsch's "Cluny Brown" and the
sex-object of King Vidor's "Duel in the Sun." Despite this impressive
range, she had a limited career, probably because her husband,
producer David O. Selznick, exerted such oppressive control over her
choices. Her real name was Phylis Isley, and the impulse to change it
came from Selznick, who thought it was too similar to that of another
young actress, ...