Editing Jennifer Jones (section)

===1949–1964: Marriage to Selznick===
[[Image:Jennifer Jones and husband David O. Selznick in Los Angeles, 1957.jpg|thumb|right|Jones and second husband [[David O. Selznick]] in 1957]]
Jones married [[David_O._Selznick|Selznick]] at sea on July 13, 1949, en route to Europe after a five-year relationship.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=105}} Over the following two decades, she appeared in numerous films that he produced, and they established a working relationship.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=9}} In 1949, Jones starred opposite [[John Garfield]] in [[John Huston]]'s adventure film ''[[We Were Strangers]]''.{{sfn|Green|2011|p= 96}} [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''The New York Times'' felt that Jones's performance was lacking, noting: "There is neither understanding nor passion in the stiff, frigid creature she achieves."<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|title= 'We Were Strangers,' Starring Jennifer Jones and Garfield, Is New Feature at Astor|date=April 28, 1949|author=Crowther, Bosley|author-link=Bosley Crowther|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1949/04/28/archives/we-were-strangers-starring-jennifer-jones-and-garfield-is-new.html}}</ref> She was subsequently cast as the title character of [[Vincente Minnelli]]'s ''[[Madame Bovary (1949 film)|Madame Bovary]]'' (1949), a role originally intended for [[Lana Turner]] that Turner declined.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=98}} ''Variety'' deemed the film "interesting to watch, but hard to feel," although it noted that "Jones answers to every demand of direction and script."<ref>{{cite web|work=Variety|title=Madame Bovary|date=December 31, 1948|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181122020322/https://variety.com/1948/film/reviews/madame-bovary-1200416272/|archive-date=November 22, 2018|url=https://variety.com/1948/film/reviews/madame-bovary-1200416272/|access-date=November 22, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 1950, Jones starred in the [[Powell and Pressburger]]-directed fantasy ''[[Gone to Earth (film)|Gone to Earth]]'' as a superstitious gypsy woman in the English countryside.{{sfn|Green|2011|pages=110–114}}

Jones next starred in [[William Wyler]]'s drama ''[[Carrie (1952 film)|Carrie]]'' (1952) with [[Laurence Olivier]].{{sfn|Green|2011|pages=116–119}} Crowther criticized her performance, writing: "Mr. Olivier gives the film its closest contact with the book, while Miss Jones' soft, seraphic portrait of Carrie takes it furthest away."<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|author=Crowther, Bosley|author-link=Bosley Crowther|title=THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ' Carrie,' With Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones, Is New Feature at the Capitol|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/07/17/archives/the-screen-in-review-carrie-with-laurence-olivier-and-jennifer.html|date=July 17, 1952}}</ref> Also in 1952, she costarred with [[Charlton Heston]] in ''[[Ruby Gentry]]'', playing a ''[[femme fatale]]'' in rural North Carolina who becomes embroiled in a murder conspiracy after marrying a local man.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=126}} The role was previously offered to [[Joan Fontaine]], who felt that she was "unsuited to play backwoods."{{sfn|Green|2011|p=127}} In its review, ''Variety'' deemed the film a "sordid drama [with] neither Jennifer Jones nor Charlton Heston gaining any sympathy in their characters."<ref>{{cite web|work=Variety|title=Ruby Gentry|url=https://variety.com/1951/film/reviews/ruby-gentry-1200417185/|date=December 31, 1951|author=''Variety'' Staff|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181122023318/https://variety.com/1951/film/reviews/ruby-gentry-1200417185/|archive-date=November 22, 2018|access-date=November 22, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

[[File:Jones+clift ristorante.jpg|thumb|left|Jones and [[Montgomery Clift]] in ''[[Terminal Station (film)|Terminal Station]]'' (1953)]]
In 1953, Jones was cast opposite [[Montgomery Clift]] in Italian director [[Vittorio De Sica]]'s ''[[Terminal Station (film)|Terminal Station]]'' ({{langx|it|Stazione termini|label=none}}), a drama set in Rome about a romance between an American woman and an Italian man.{{sfn|Green|2011|pages=132–135}} The film, produced by Selznick, had a troubled production history, and [[David_O._Selznick|Selznick]] and De Sica clashed over the screenplay and tone of the film.{{sfn|Green|2011|pages=132–136}} Clift sided with De Sica and reportedly called Selznick "an interfering fuck-face" on set.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=133}} Aside from the tensions between cast and crew, Jones was mourning the recent death of her first husband Robert Walker, and also missed her two sons, who were staying in Switzerland during production.{{sfn|Bosworth|1978|pages=245–246}} ''Terminal Station'' was screened at the [[1953 Cannes Film Festival]]{{sfn|Bazin|2014|p=135}} and was released in a heavily truncated form in the United States with the title ''Indiscretion of an American Wife''.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=130}} Also in 1953, Jones teamed again with director John Huston to star in his film ''[[Beat the Devil (film)|Beat the Devil]]'' (1953), an adventure comedy costarring [[Humphrey Bogart]].{{sfn|Green|2011|p=139}} The film was a box-office flop and was critically panned upon release, and Bogart distanced himself from it.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=139}} However, it was reevaluated in later years by critics such as [[Roger Ebert]], who included it in his list of "Great Movies" and cited it as the first "[[camp (style)|camp]]" film.<ref>{{cite web|work=Chicago Sun-Times|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-beat-the-devil-1954|author=Ebert, Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=Beat the Devil|date=November 26, 2000|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130428033127/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-beat-the-devil-1954|archive-date=April 28, 2013|access-date=November 22, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In August 1954, Jones gave birth to her third child, daughter Mary Jennifer Selznick.<ref>{{cite news|work=The San Francisco Examiner|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25606221/the_san_francisco_examiner/|page=82|location=San Francisco, California|last=Morton|first=Hortense|title=Additional Re-release Planned by Selznick|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>

Jones was cast as Chinese-born doctor [[Han Suyin]] in the drama ''[[Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)|Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing]]'' (1955), a role that brought her fifth Academy Award nomination.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=246}} Crowther lauded her performance as "... lovely and intense. Her dark beauty reflects sunshine and sadness."<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/08/19/archives/love-is-a-few-splendors-shy-patricks-adaptation-of-suyin-novel.html|date=August 19, 1955|title=Love' Is a Few Splendors Shy; Patrick's Adaptation of Suyin Novel Opens|author=Crowther, Bosley|author-link=Bosley Crowther}}</ref> Next, she starred as a schoolteacher in ''[[Good Morning, Miss Dove]]'' (1955),{{sfn|Green|2011|pages=151–152}} followed by a lead role in ''[[The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit]]'', a drama about a World War II veteran.{{sfn|Green|2011|p=157}}

In 1957, she starred as the poet [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] in the historical drama ''[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957 film)|The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]'', based on the 1930 [[The Barretts of Wimpole Street|play]] by [[Rudolf Besier]].{{sfn|Green|2011|p=159}} She next played the lead role in the [[Ernest Hemingway]] adaptation ''[[A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)|A Farewell to Arms]]'' (1957).{{sfn|Green|2011|pages=165–169}} The film received mixed reviews,{{sfn|Green|2011|p=169–170}} with ''Variety'' noting that "the relationship between Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones never takes on real dimensions."<ref>{{cite web|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/1956/film/reviews/a-farewell-to-arms-2-1200418375/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181122031339/https://variety.com/1956/film/reviews/a-farewell-to-arms-2-1200418375/|archive-date=November 22, 2018|date=December 31, 1956|author=''Variety'' Staff|title=A Farewell to Arms|access-date=November 22, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Jones's next project came five years later with the [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] adaptation ''[[Tender Is the Night (film)|Tender Is the Night]]'' (1962).{{sfn|Green|2011|p=191}}