Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones takes center stage this June in MoMA Film’s Modern Matinees series. Follow her on-screen transformations all month long. Tickets and showtimes at mo.ma/jenniferjones. Born Phylis Lee Isley in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1919 to parents who operated a traveling tent show, a chance encounter with producer David O. Selznick, who overheard one of her theater auditions, would transform Phylis into “Jennifer Jones.” Jones went on to become a queen of metamorphosis,

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