 Jones's dark beauty and initial saintly image — as shown in her first starring role — was a stark contrast three years later when she was cast as a provocative bi-racial woman in Selznick's controversial Western "Duel in the Sun" (1946), in which she portrayed a Mestiza orphan in Texas who falls in love with an Anglo man (portrayed by Gregory Peck).The same year, she starred as the title character in Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy "Cluny Brown", playing a working-class English woman who falls in love just prior to World War II.In 1947, she filmed "Portrait of Jennie", a fantasy film released in 1948, based on the novella of the same name by Robert Nathan.