Portrait of Jennie
Portrait of Jennie

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Winter of 1934, New York City. With his work lacking depth, struggling artist Eben Adams is in dire need of inspiration. However, in snow-covered Central Park, Manhattan, Eben has a chance encounter with his romantic, godsent muse: Jennie Appleton. Once, someone encouraged talented Eben to find new meaningful subjects to escape poverty. Now, this rendezvous with fate is beyond his expectations. Excited, Eben starts preparing a canvas to draw Jennie's portrait, the first and o... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Portrait of Jennie:

Jennifer Jones
Joseph Cotten
Ethel Barrymore
Lillian Gish
Cecil Kellaway
David Wayne

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Winter of 1934, New York City. With his work lacking depth, struggling artist Eben Adams is in dire need of inspiration. However, in snow-covered Central Park, Manhattan, Eben has a chance encounter with his romantic, godsent muse: Jennie Appleton. Once, someone encouraged talented Eben to find new meaningful subjects to escape poverty. Now, this rendezvous with fate is beyond his expectations. Excited, Eben starts preparing a canvas to draw Jennie's portrait, the first and only thing he's ever been sure of in his life, and a beautiful, platonic relationship that defies time gradually blooms. But an unfathomable mystery lies behind Jennie's big, doleful eyes. Can love alter destiny? Will Eben complete his magnum opus?

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Kalamazoo Gazette - 10/10 by James SanfordWonderful romantic mystery, sure to haunt your memory
Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Ed GonzalezWilliam Dieterle's 1948 masterpiece Portrait of Jennie is not only an unabashedly romantic melodrama but also a fascinating ghost story.
Combustible Celluloid - 9/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonDirected by William Dieterle, the film has a wistful, dreamy quality (which may be why Bunuel was drawn to it) and even its overabundance of music doesn't spoil this mood.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers - 6/10 by Steve CrumFine period melodrama starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.
User Review - 10/10 by Deb SJennifer jones was the best actress of the late 40's and 50's, I love her performance as Bernadette and as the sensual Madame bovary, but i like most as Jennie in a sincere portrait of a lonelly girl looking for love, This movie is the most romantic i ever seen or at least one of them, is so about fantasy and tenderness that you forget the time and atmosphere of joseph cotten's performance.
User Review - 10/10 by sabrina iI'm not exactly sure why this film flopped, it so beautiful and magical. It's pretty much on the same level as other classics that were also big hits in their time...perhaps because the film is a little strange and that maybe was off-putting for audiences back then. It is a difficult film to catergorize...it is a film about a painter named Eben in love with a ghost but it's also about an artist and his struggles to create works that will inspire while also dealing with his poverty and lonliness. Like, I'm rather surprised he didn't notice that something was odd about is meetings with the girl earlier...rather these meetings helped fuel his creativity. She gave him the push he needed, the self confidence he needed. At one point, he feels like he can't even paint without meeting her first. In the beginning of the film, a man complained his work lacked something that made it stand out, I think he said it lacked love...and after he met her-that changed. He also becomes a different person after he meets her, less cynical. More hopeful and energetic. The performance are excellent. I love Joseph Cotton in every film I have seen of his, this one is no exception. Jennifer Jones is mysterious and haunting and its great how she seems different each time he meets her, she ages a little each time and Jones does it perfectly. The ending is interesting and more ambitious than most films of that time. The recreation of her death is filmed in green. The green was rather an odd choice and I was taken aback at first but I can understand why the filmmakers choose to go that way. Perhaps just for cinematic effect. The last image we see, is the portrait...its in full color. Now Eben's world is quite different from the black and white that it was before...Jennie is gone but her effect on him is everlasting and the beauty of the painting is a testament to that.
User Review - 10/10 by Jennifer H[center]Greetings in the Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,[/center] [center]and Welcome to the St. James Journal[/center] [left][font=Arial Black]Making of the Old World, a New World[/font][/left] [left]I recently saw the 1948 b&w classic, Portrait of Jennie starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton. Revisiting this enchanted masterwork on cable again, I know I have to review it here.[/left] [left]The experience of seeing it as a youth, and seeing it again from the perspective of the 21st century in the Last Days of what Martin Luther King, Jr called this "Old World," is well worth sharing and discussing.[/left] [left]It is the difference between an "Old World" view of life, death, and spirituality, and the "New World" view. There will be a "New Heavens," and a "New Earth" "in which righteousness will dwell."[/left] [center][font=Arial Black]Notes and Thoughts: The All-Inclusive Art[/font][/center] As a reflection on life, film is the all-inclusive art. It encompasses all other arts, crafts, and sciences. There is a wonderful opportunity to employ a large number of people of many diverse occupations and skills. [font=Arial Black]Film, Painting, and Novella[/font] An outstanding example of this is the Portrait of Jennie from the film by William Dieterle, the painting for the film by Robert Brackman, and the novella that started it all by Robert Nathan. Book, painting, and film along with all the other attendant arts and crafts are truly exemplary. [font=Arial Black]Master Minds, Master Works[/font] When all come together so exquisitely -- humanity and technology; masters, apprentices, and their tools; in this particular case, we can easily say the end result is a haunting, and enduring masterpiece. More to come. Got to run. In His Service, Al
User Review - 10/10 by Mony TThe muse. "The wind blow, the rivers flow. No one know where I come or where I go." One of the most beautiful haunting love story.
User Review - 10/10 by Joanna LA great oldie but goodie that I think most people that like old movies have not come across.
User Review - 10/10 by Terry WA haunting beautiful love story which easily is one of the best I have seen. Eben is a struggling artist living in New York City. He is painter and is having trouble selling his work. One day while walking through the park he meets a mysterious young girl named Jeannie. The two are drawn towards each other and Jeannie even asks him to wait for her to grow up so they can be together. Eden is inspired and draws a portrait if Jeannie which sells quickly. Eden sees Jeannie again, this time she appears to have grown older. She talks about things which happened in the past like they were yesterday with Eben and then leave disappearing rather quickly. The Portrait of Jeannie is a mesmerizing tale of love; the discovery, loss, and the idea of love being eternal. It's absolutely gorgeous, street lights pierce through ominous fog creating some lasting images. There is one scene in the park where our two main characters are ice skating which is an absolutely gorgeous sequence, specifically how Jeannie is framed by the skyscrapers of New York with the son coming down from above. This is a profound script with ideas that were so ahead of their time. Pretty much perfect.

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