Timeline - Page 3

	1941
	JF rejects the film BACKSTREET (1941).
February 27	JF attends the 1940 Academy Awards. She loses Best Actress Oscar to Ginger Rogers.
May-June	JF refuses to star in the film THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON, starring Errol Flynn.
June	Selznick announces that JF will be one of the stars on residence at the Hollywood Summer Theatre, located at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.
mid-June	JF sails on the S.S. Mariposa for Hawaii, Samoa and Tahiti.
Early November	JF arrives on the set of THIS ABOVE ALL after a threatened suspension by David O. Selznick.
November 14	SUSPICION released.
	1942
February 27	JF attends the 1941 Academy Awards. She wins the Best Actress Oscar for SUSPICION.
May 13	THIS ABOVE ALL released.
September 27	JF receives her Red Cross nurses' aide cap.
November	Cosmopolitan votes JF "The Cosmopolite of the Month."
	1943
Winter	JF discovers that she has been nominated for an Academy Award for THE CONSTANT NYMPH.
April 23	JF becomes an American citizen.
July 24	THE CONSTANT NYMPH released.
November 30	JF begins working as a nurses' aide at the Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.
December 27	The Hollywood Women's Club selects JF as the "Least Cooperative Actress of the year."
	1944
May	JF files for divorce from Aherne.
June 5	JF receives a divorce from Aherne.
September 21	FRENCHMAN'S CREEK released.
December	JF begins dating John Houseman and later becomes engaged.
	1945
January	William Dozier offers JF THE STRANGE WOMAN (1946). She flatly refuses to do the film.
February 9	Dozier suggests JF for a role in NONE SO BLIND. He also recommends her for the lead in ONDINE (1960).
March 29	THE AFFAIRS OF SUSAN released.
Spring	JF and Houseman search the New York woods for a sight to build their house, as they plan to marry later that year. Later marriage called off.
November 24	The New York Times reports that JF is stricken with pneumonia and pleurisy.
December	JF enters St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica for a series of tests.
Late December	JF moves into the Sacred Heart Convent at Menlo Park, California to recover from her illness. This forces her to cancel her next film CHRISTABEL CAINE; later renamed BORN TO BE BAD.
	1946
February 15	Relapse of influenza postpones JF's trip to Cuba.
Early Spring	JF begins seriously dating director/producer William Dozier.
April 20	FROM THIS DAY FORWARD released.
May 2	JF marries William Dozier in Mexico City.
September 27	JF's cousin, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, dies in a jet plane crash. The jet was designed by JF's uncle, Geoffrey's father.
October 11	JF signs to co-star with Gregory Peck in the film EARTH AND HIGH HEAVEN.
October 22	Dozier throws JF a birthday party at Romanoff's; 250 guests attended.

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