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Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90
Jennifer Jones - the American leading lady who won an Oscar for playing Saint Bernadette in the 1943 movie The Song Of Bernadette - has died at her home in Malibu aged 90.
Jones enjoyed a critically-acclaimed career in the 1940s and 1950s, including being controversially cast as a bi-racial woman in Duel In The Sun.
Her leading men included Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, Humphrey Bogart and Rock Hudson, with whom she starred in the 1957 war movie A Farewell To Arms.
Jones was married three times, including to influential Gone With The Wind producer David O Selznick and industrialist Norton Simon, whose art collection became the basis for the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.
A spokesman for the museum announced Jones's death of natural causes.
The actress made her last screen appearance in The Towering Inferno in 1974, where she danced with Fred Astaire before a fire engulfed partygoers in a skyscraper.
She spent the last 20 years of her life in quiet retirement in southern California.
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