RIP Jennifer Jones

News of her death today, and I was surprised that she was still around. Does her name register with LT people? The David O. Selznick connection is dinosaurish, but still.

Obits are speaking more of lesser movies, but there was good stuff. Does anybody still watch Lubitsch's "Cluny Brown," or her later in "Beat the Devil"?

Worth rediscovering.

I just read this post, I was thinking of her the other day wondering if she was still living because there was something in Sunday's paper about Kirk Douglas, Olivia DeHavilland, Joan Fontaine, and Ernest Borgnine. I've only seen a couple of her movies I think, the titles escape me: one with Laurence Olivier where he is destitute at the end, and the western with Gregory Peck and Joseph Cotten.

My favorite film with her and Joseph Cotten.

Love Letters
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037885/

Written by, of all people, Ayn Rand.

I've a copy of Cluny Brown, starring Jones with Charles Boyer, based on the book by Margery Sharp. It was directed by Ernst Lubitch, probably my favorite director from that era.

And in one of those strange coincidences, I was watching it last night (and seriously, I watch maybe one or two movies a year at home)...and then read this evening on this thread that she had passed away.

My library has Since You Went Away:

The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.

I look forward to watching it.