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One cold winter evening in Central Park, he meets an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl, Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones), who captures his fancy when she asks him to wait for her to grow up.
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Jun 27, 2001 · Portrait of Jennie is a haunting evocation of one man’s pained artistic process, and the genius of the film is how Dieterle delicately equates the creative impulse to an ever-evolving spiritual crisis.
William Dieterle's 1948 masterpiece Portrait of Jennie is not only an unabashedly romantic melodrama but also a fascinating ghost story.
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The film opens on several shots of clouds along with multiple quotes, all evoking a haunting bit of fairy tale whimsy. This leads up to meet our hero, a down-on-his-luck painter named Eben Adams (Cotton). He explains the emotional harshness of the winter season, proving to the audience that he (like many New Yorks in 1934) needs a bit of light in t...
Producer David O. Selznick was a man famous for bringing sweeping romances to the silver screen. Not only was he responsible for monumental masterpieces such as Gone with the Wind, but he also was behind the equally successful Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’sRebecca. So a fantastical tale of love and mystery such as Portrait of Je...
Though it had a grand tale of romance at its center, with incredible stars at the helm, Portrait of Jennie didn’t receive the kind of admiration (or box office receipts) it so rightfully deserved. One review, written by Bosley Crowther of the New York Times referred to the film as “deficient and disappointing in the extreme…”, which if you ask any ...
There’s nothing quite like being introduced to film as unique as Portrait of Jennie. Sure, there have been countless other fantasy romances of a similar variety from the classic film era and beyond (some which will be explored here in this series.) But truth be told, none of them are quite as romantic and beautiful as Jennie. Dieterle directs the f...
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Portrait of Jennie: Directed by William Dieterle. With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish. In Depression-era New York, an impoverished painter has a chance encounter with an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl in Central Park who inspires him and changes his destiny.
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THE PORTRAIT OF JENNIE is a perfect film in an achingly brief 86 minutes, and it effortlessly achieves the dreamy mythic quality of a long-lost story from childhood. Jennifer Jones is simply luminous, turning in her second quietly staggering performance, after CLUNY BROWN.
