Ruby Gentry

Jennifer Jones had different types of roles in the films her husband David O. Selznick made. She's a dutiful daughter in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. She is a simple, holy young woman - destined for religious greatness, in SONG OF BERNADETTE.... Full review

I saw this when I was very young and it was quite risqué for 1952. Jennifer was beautiful and very seductive. The thought of a woman being shown on the screen engaged in seduction was far from the norm for... Full review

It's no big surprise that RUBY GENTRY receives such mixed reviews, because the theme of the film will not appeal to small-town America. Ruby is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, as the narrator at the beginning... Full review

Charlton Heston is at the height of his hunk stage and played an unusual type, against his rugged, frontier persona. Jennifer Jones is sultry and moody through several decades, backed by the haunting "Ruby" theme. Richard Hyman's harmonica is a... Full review

King Vidor's head-on approach to melodrama seems to be out of fashion these days when critics are more comfortable with the self-conscious ironies of Douglas Sirk. Ruby Gentry is the last and, along with Stella Dallas, the best of his... Full review

"Ruby Gentry" strongly reminds me of the fantastic "Duel in the Sun", but sadly it is photographed in black and white. Normally I prefer Black and White - like in the most Film noirs - but in this case color... Full review

Jennifer Jones plays a feisty tomboy with a sadistic streak who's in love with young masochistic Charlton Heston and will do anything to have him - or to reject and ruin him at varying times, it seems - in this... Full review

This hormone driven drama should have provided fodder for a good prime time soap opera the way Joan Crawford's Flamingo Road was later turned into one for television. The characters and plot line are right up there with Dallas and... Full review

"Ruby Gentry" is Charlton Heston's only sexy movie. It helped to have Jennifer Jones in it. The movie is about a poor girl from the South marrying a rich man when her boyfriend marries a wealthy woman. It is a... Full review

Jennifer Jones certainly did not get type cast in her screen roles.As a complete contrast to her normal saintly image (Duel in the Sun excepted) she plays Ruby Gentry,a Sth.Carolina girl from the wrong side of the tracks who gets... Full review

The B&W film is in fine shape and the soundtrack is equally well preserved. The story has kept a bible-spouting brother (James Anderson) on the back burner for eighty minutes, and trots him out for a tragic finale in an unconvincing swamp set. ... Full Review

Rosa Moline (Davis) is a twelve o'clock girl in a nine o'clock town. Loyalton is the burg in question, and Rosa doesn't like it one bit: 'What a dump... like sitting in a coffin and waiting to be carried out!' ... Full Article