Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)

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ones BY GREGORY PECK Peter Pan in blue jeans — FROM where I stand, after five years’ acquaintanceship, Jennifer Jones is a dual personality — artist and girl. A difficult portrait to pen, “the Jones girls.” Never will I forget an embarrassing interlude at a dinner party a couple of years ago. During a lull, when one could, or could not, sound quite profound, a young admirer of Jennifer’s was full of questions about what Miss Jones was “really like.” “Well, she’s ...” I began, and then I stopped, searching for a suitable capsule comment. Finding none, I turned to another star present who also knew Jennifer. “Well . . .” he said, and handed it back to me. Between us we made what probably were the two shortest after-dinner speeches ever given. What is she really like? Artist and girl? I agree with my friend John Huston, who directed Jennifer in “We Were Strangers,” and with whom I’m associated in “Quo Vadis.” John, full of admiration for Jennifer’s sensitive performance in the ( Continued on page 76) hiding behind the skirts of a great actress Jennifer (with Louis Jourdan, Vincente Minnelli) is a “Patsy” for a practical joke Woman of the world: Jennifer as the alluring “Madame Bovary” j Manatt 45