In 1943 in The Song of Bernadette, Jennifer Jones played Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant who claimed to have had a vision of Our Lady in the French village of Lourdes. Charles Bickford was Fr Peyramale, representing the Church’s initial discounting of her claim before the worldwide attention conferred on her resulted in a change…
Fluctuating fortunes of forties females in film
Studio portrait photo of Jennifer
Jones taken for promotional use
from 20th Century Fox Production,
The Song of Bernadette (1943).

Aubrey Malone