Acteurist Oeuvre-View – Season 1 – Jennifer Jones: Song of Bernadette (1943) & Since You Went Away (1944)

Join Dave and Elise for episode one of our (near-)complete filmography series on the great Jennifer Jones (née Phylis Isley). We provide a few preliminary thoughts re: our take on the Jones/Selznick synergy and then dive right into the films. Song of Bernadette kicks things off with quite a blessed bang, situating our star at the conceptual vanishing point between the instinctual and the ineffable; while the following year's Since You Went Away dabbles with domesticating the Jones persona (as a nod to the war effort, y'know), for the first and perhaps the only time.       Time Codes: 0h 1m 00s:       Introduction to Jennifer Jones 0h 16m 15s:     Song of Bernadette (1943) dir. Henry King 1h 21m 37s:     Since You Went Away (1944) dir. John Cromwell 2h 19m 38s:     Listener Mail with Todd Murry +++ * Find Elise's latest published film piece – "Elaine May's Male Gaze" – in the Elaine May issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room* *And Read Elise's Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] Theme Music: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" – Le Tigre