Jennifer Jones' plunge in The Towering Inferno
It was just posted in the most beautiful thread for Faye Dunaway.
This scene always bothered me. It just seems so awkward the way she turns around and then falls backwards. Usually these Irwin Allen films had good disaster staging (such as Stella Stevens in The Poseidon Adventure and of course the ship going over.)
Wonder why this one was so awkward. Poor Jennifer Jones. She thought she would follow in the path of Helen Hayes in Airport and Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure as the old lady everybody loves and gives awards to. Didn't happen.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 4, 2018 2:31 AM
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Probably because she couldn’t act and gave the character all the warmth of a nicely coiffed ice cube.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 4, 2018 1:57 AM
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We already had a thread about this particular scene a few months ago:
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 4, 2018 1:58 AM
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Jennifer Jones suffered from extreme mental illness in mid and later life. This is painstakingly detailed in Jean Stein's excellent book WEST OF EDEN.
Jean Stein herself jumped to her death in NYC not long after the book was published.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 4, 2018 1:59 AM
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