Timeline - Page 5
| 1954 | |
| March 1 | CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT released. |
| Late March | JF travels to Peru to visit Martita's parents, then makes a stop in Santiago, Chile. |
| June 1 | JF replaces Deborah Kerr in the play TEA AND SYMPATHY at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. |
| 1955 | |
| Rumors persist that JF will star with Van Johnson in a movie musical based on DIE FLADERMAUS. The Warner Bros.' film was never put into production. | |
| February 8 | JF withdraws from the play TEA AND SYMPATHY due to a bout with bursitis. |
| September 13 | OTHELLO released. |
| 1956 | |
| March | JF returns to RKO for a three-picture deal, SERENADE released (March 13). |
| September 11 | BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT released. |
| 1957 | |
| January | JF and Mrs. Fontaine fly to France to meet Olivia's new husband and baby daughter. While in France JF visits the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. |
| March | Dozier charges JF with being in contempt of court for disobeying custody orders handed down in March 1953. |
| May | JF agrees to compromise custody arrangement with Dozier. |
| June 13 | ISLAND IN THE SUN released. |
| mid-June | JF sails with her daughters on the Queen Mary to Cherbourg, France. |
| July 1 | Newsweek reports uproar in Minnesota, South Carolina, and Georgia over showing the controversial film ISLAND IN THE SUN. |
| August | JF breaks her little toe and is stricken with a severe case of Asian flu in London. |
| September 24 | UNTIL THEY SAIL released. |
| Fall | JF travels to Kilcock, Ireland with Peter Viertel, where they train for the upcoming hunting season. |
| December | JF travels to Switzerland with Viertel for a skiing holiday. She is stricken with infectious monoucleosis. |
| 1958 | |
| Early | JF enters the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles with hepatitis and mononucleosis. Upon her release she flies to her home in Maine to recuperate. |
| June 25 | SEPARATE TABLES opens at the Rockland County Playhouse in Blauvelt, New York. |
| August 1 | A CERTAIN SMILE released. |
| August 9 | SEPERATE TABLES closes at the Theatre-by-the-Sea in Matunuch, Rhode Island. |
| Summer | Dozier takes JF to court for violating a 1957 custody agreement. Under threat of jail JF returns Debbie to Dozier. |
| 1959 | |
| June 29 | HILARY opens in summer stock at the Summer Theatre in Sacandaga Park, New York. |
| September 5 | HILARY closes at the Oakdale Musical Theatre in Wallingford, Connecticut. |
| October 14 | HILARY opens at The Playhouse in Wilmington, Delaware. |
| December 19 | HILARY closes at the Geary in San Fransisco. |
| 1960 | |
| April 24 | JF speaks to the Pittsburgh Advertising Club on Ladies' Day. |
| May 16 | Young announces that he and JF will separate. |
| mid-May | JF enters a balloon race in Holland. She ends up on the winning team. |
| June 13 | SUSAN AND GOD opens at the Pocono Theatre in Mountainhome, Pennsylvania. |
| August | Music Corp. of America executive Mike Levee hires JF as a hostess for one of his television series. |
| August 27 | SUSAN AND GOD closes at the Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut. |
| November 9 | JF files a divorce suit against Young. |
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