portrait of jennie
with the headline: theater:' portrait of jennie,' a musical adaption .
oddly enough, two of the videos i watched were devil and daniel webster and portrait of jennie .
labels: david o. selznick, fantasy, jennifer jones, joseph cotten, portrait of jennie
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e ven real artistic talent was not left alone with portrait of jennie advertising, for in forty - three los angeles high - schools art students were having a, portrait of jennie, portrait contest. [ 83 ] no report as to the winner .
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the portrait of jennie from the film did hang for a time in the metropolitan museum in new york city .
title: portrait of jennie author (s): robert nathan publisher: blackstone audio, inc. availability: amazon
title: portrait of jennie author (s): robert nathan publisher: blackstone audio, inc. availability: amazon uk
william dieterle' s 1948 masterpiece portrait of jennie is not only an unabashedly romantic melodrama but also a fascinating ghost story .
portrait of jennie is an unusual screen romance. the story of an ethereal romance between two generations is told with style, taste and dignity .
i’m glad to learn of this movie – portrait of jennie – i’ve never seen it or heard of it. i will definitely make a point of seeing it now. thanks !
portrait of jennie is available on dvd (at a hefty price) but has not yet been released on blu - ray .
surrealism at its finest if this film version of robert nathan' s
portrait of jennie
which is enhanced by inspired background music ...
portrait of jennie selznick studio; screenplay by paul osborn and peter berneis; produced by david o. selznick; directed by william dieterle .
f inally, in october of 1948, it was admitted by selznick and company that portrait of jennie would be released just under the academy award consideration dead - line, [ 58 ] which usually meant around christmas. sometime in november, for sure before thanksgiving, dimitri tiomkin finished the recording of the score for portrait of jennie. [ 59 ]
h armonica genius alan schackner, taught joseph cotton to play the mouth - harp for his role as eben adams for portrait of jennie. [ 73 ]
with the headline: review 1 - - no title; selznick' s' portrait of jennie,' with cotten and jennifer jones, opens at rivoli .
i bought portrait of jennie around the same time that i bought the time traveler' s wife because i read some reviews of the latter that said
this isn' t your parents' portrait of jennie
and so i was curious what my parents' portrait of jennie was. it' s a sweet but sad tale about an artist in 1920s new york city who meets a young girl in the park and later draws sketches of her that pique the interest of a local art dealer. the girl reappears often in his life, but always seeming quite a bit olde
t he queen for a day, radio program originated their christmas eve program from the carthay circle theatre in hollywood, this on the eve of the official opening of portrait of jennie at that theater. [ 82 ]
portrait of jennie [ videorecording ] / selznick studio; screenplay by paul osborn and peter berneis; produced by david o. selznick; directed by william dieterle. – national library
one day in central park, eben meets an unusually pretty, cheerful young girl named jennie appleton (jennifer jones). they chat as she skates across the pond. eben is captivated by jennie’s face, and wants to paint her portrait. but jennie has to leave .
boston saw the portrait of jennie opening in the middle of march, at the esquire and mayflower theatres; the esquire instituted student pricing before 5: 00 pm, daily, except sundays. [ 12 ]
this stunning color portrait of lucille ball was published in * screen guide * of february 1943. this fan magazine was a little different than others of i ...
[ the jennie eben sees are actually slices of the real jennie taken somehow out of time. as eben encounters the girl that grows, the real jennie is currently in france, on her way to meet a sad destiny. (hide spoiler) ]
a t the walter reade’s paramount theatre in long branch, new jersey, manager john balmer arranged for students from a local art school to do quick sketches of customers, this done the week leading up to the opening of portrait of jennie at the theater. students also produced a 30×40 jennie. [ 88 ]
the actual portrait was painted by american artist robert brackman, and became a fixture in the home of david o’ selznick, the husband of jennifer jones .
t he rivoli theatre in new york, offered an additional promotion, this was a jig saw puzzle contest. while waiting for the start of jennie, patrons could try to assemble a three - hundred - piece puzzle of jennie, those who finished received a 22×24 reproduction in full color of the robert brackman portrait of jennifer jones. [ 86 ]
j ewelry was designed with the portrait of jennie seal, by agnew, for sale at the peck and peck shops. [ 91 ] this trinket design ushered jennie, a perfectly fictional character from the pages of a book and her subsequent adaptation into moving - pictures, into the real world .
don' t remember just how old (or shall i say young) i was the first time i saw
portrait of jennie
but knew it hit me like a thunder bolt ...
n o manner of publicity went unused to promote portrait of jennie, from greeting cards and cast pictures; [ 78 ] a song of the same name recorded by nat king cole was heard on radio and for sale at the local record store. [ 79 ]
a new device was used for, portrait of jennie, called a “telelight, ” working like a teletype machine; it would light up and promote jennie with interesting information about the movie. the locations chosen for the program were in hollywood and los angeles at laundromats. [ 80 ]
what is jennie then but a metaphor for supreme creative (read: spiritual) enlightenment? a quick glance at eben' s portrait of jennie shows that he has yet to finish drawing her left arm. the shot evokes a devastating foreshadowing that isn' t lost on eben. indeed, he is very conscious of the fact that if he finishes the arm, jennie will disappear soon after .
there' s a great mixture of a handful of genres throughout this film and the blending of all of these elements mix quite flawlessly. with the portrait of jennie, we are given a love story that melds traditional elements of mystery, horror, fantasy, and drama, and then creates something entirely unlike any of those separate genres. one could say that portrait of jennie is in a genre of its own, because when you analyze each segment of the categories that i mentioned above, you can' t pinpoint a single one within the story. each combines so delicately into the fabric of the narrative, that they begin to play off each other, morphing into a melting pot of ideas. the end result is something that defies logic, making it impossible to pin down. the ambiguity of it all is really what is most appealing about the film. it creates such a believable world out of such unbelievable material, that it boggles the mind when trying to rope in the individual elements of this complicated recipe of a film. portrait of jennie is definitely a unique beast .
a 17 year old anne francis (uncredited and overdubbed) appears in the final scene as one of the three teenage girls admiring the portrait .
in my own experiences seeing portrait of jenni e, the romanticism of the story is compelling, but is enhanced for me by the extraordinary, painterly effects of joseph august ‘s cinematography throughout the film. a pioneer cameraman whose work went back to the beginning of film, he died shortly after completing portrait of jennie, (and, btw, he was also the cinematographer on the extraordinary the devil and daniel webster, so recently discussed on this blog) .
portrait of jennie. 1948. usa. directed by william dieterle. screenplay by paul osborn, peter berneis, based on the novel by robert nathan. with jennifer jones, joseph cotten, ethel barrymore. 86 min .
romantic and gothic in equal measure, portrait of jennie introduces us to eben adams, an unsuccessful artist who finally finds a buyer for one of his portraits. on that auspicious day, eben also meets jennie appleton, an enigmatic, attractive young woman who soon becomes his muse. but has eben fallen in love with a ghost ?
a rather large supper party followed the charity premiere of jennie, hosted by the hearsts, at their home .
whatever the medium, the spirit of'' jennie'' remains the same. the story is spun from the purest whimsy and the heroine, extolled on stage as'' goddess, temptress, angel,'' is as unearthly as a fairy. as a new musical,'' portrait of jennie'' is a dusty artifact of the 1940' s .
with stunning color sequences, like the raging new england hurricane at the film' s conclusion - - whose storm clouds are a sickly green - - and in the final masterful portrait adams paints of jennie, unveiled in stunning technicolor .
t heater owners and operators got their chance to see, portrait of jennie, with the next viewing which occurred in the new year, when a trade screening was scheduled for early january, 1949, in new york city. [ 8 ]
e thel barrymore arrived in new york, for portrait of jennie filming on june 16, 1947. [ 41 ] the jennie unit, worked at the cloisters in fort tryon park, in new jersey, then on to oldwick, nj, for the picnic scenes and fulton fish market and central park back in nyc. [ 42 ] just passed the middle of july the jennie project was faced with still another month of filming scheduled, this to be done in hollywood. [ 43 ]
o n mother’s day, 1949, another rivoli theatre promotion offered free admission for a mother brought by one of her children; the first five hundred mothers received a flower from new york florist warendorff. the next five hundred got the suitable for framing 22×24 replica of the portrait of jennie by robert brackman. [ 87 ]
the third time jennie appears, she’s in eben’s studio. she’s a full - grown woman, ready to attend convent school (college). eben, overjoyed and in love, can finally work on her portrait .
no credits at all are shown at the beginning except for the studio logo, not even the title of the film. instead, we hear a narrator speaking the prologue, and then announcing ,
and now,' portrait of jennie'
. the credits are saved for the end of the picture. see more »
jennie would run seven weeks at the rivoli posting good box - office till the end .
i' ve watched portrait of jennie over a hundred times, and the haunting music and photography always cast their spells. jennifer jones, joseph cotton and ethyl barrymore weave the tale of poverty, passion, love, lost love and art. i suspect i' ll watch it again soon .
the movie ends with several girls looking at a painting in a museum, and miss spinney comes upon them. we don’t see the picture at first, but the point - of - view changes and we see that it is eben adams’ portrait of jennie. the movie has come full circle .
o ne name that is absent from the cast is that of joseph buloff; [ 66 ] obviously buloff did not make an appearance in jennie, yet he was announced as a member of the jennie group of performers. at the same time as the cast members (including buloff) of jennie traveled from new york to california, buloff was signed for a part in, to the victor, a warner brothers production. [ 67 ] what part was buloff to play in jennie? that we may never know .
). her transformation from a young girl into a mature young woman is entirely believable. she is as enchanting in the film as in the specially painted portrait commissioned to artist robert brackman. the portrait became one of selznick' s prize possessions and he proudly displayed in their home after they married .
portrait is a brilliant movie. its appeal is to the emotions, not the intellect. the whole cast is at their best .
i bought portrait of jennie around the same time that i bought the time traveler' s wife because i read some reviews of the latter that said
this isn' t your parents' portrait of jennie
and so i was curious what my parents' portrait of jennie was. it' s a sweet but sad tale about an artist in 1920s new york city who meets a young girl in the park and later draws sketches of her that pique the interest of a local art dealer. the girl reappears often in his life, but always seeming quite a bit older than she was at the previous visit. she becomes something like a muse for him, and he comes to realize that she' s visiting him from various points in time, while the jennie in his time would actually be about the same age as him. jennie seems to know that she' s headed toward tragedy from the beginning, and the sad end somewhat parallels the time traveler' s wife, although the latter was much more complex and intricate. this one was an enjoyable little book, though .
i will admit that the mystery of jennie had me confused upon first viewing so i look forward to seeing this one again on the 11th to catch some of the details .
before the portrait is finished, jennie has to go away again. she’s gone for some time, and eben despairs of ever seeing her again. he waits by a park bench as night. when she does come again, jennie (a sophomore in college) admits that she’s in love with eben. they walk through the streets of nyc all night, talking and wishing they could stay together for longer .
p ortrait of jennie won the gold medal award from the american schools and colleges association for mr. selznick for 1949. [ 74 ]
title: portrait of jennie author (s): robert nathan isbn: 0 - 440 - 97052 - 0 / 978 - 0 - 440 - 97052 - 1 (usa edition) publisher: laurel - leaf books by dell publlishing co. availability: amazon amazon uk amazon ca
the painter (brent barrett) is dumbstruck at the sight of jennie, in her first appearance as a child and in her subsequent transformation into womanhood (as represented by donna bullock). that feeling is shared by everyone who looks at her portrait; art supersedes the artist .
adams eventually travels to new england in search of jennie in an unexpected climax where her love - wracked suitor finally learns the truth about the lovely, elusive subject of his portraits .
portrait of jennie, much like its heroine, is way ahead of its time. fortunately for the films sake, it was appreciated in its own time and at the same time is still a relevant piece of work that can be loved for generations to come. the film has so much substance to it, that you can feel the weight of all it has to say within its expressive and fleeting moments. portrait of jennie only exists over a span of a few moments in reality, but through the same unconventional and otherworldly connection that occurred between its main characters, this amazing story will last within the minds of its audience for a lifetime and dare i say an eternity. this film is highly recommended for anyone who loves the power of cinema and the wonderful stories that it can bring into our lives .
eben later makes a few sketches of jennie and inadvertently places one in a collection of landscape paintings that he hopes to sell to mr. mathews, the owner of a small gallery. although he has little interest in the landscapes, mathews is taken by the sketch of jennie and buys it, along with one other painting. the sale provides rent ...
t he national release date of april 22, 1949 for portrait of jennie is incorrect, although many cities saw the film in the late spring of 1949; this was by no means a national roll - out with a hard and fast single day premier. play dates in april and may of 49, were not consistent with a nation - wide release; this was a soft opening with premiers throughout the summer .
i also enjoyed the film and your review. ive become very curious as to the present location of the robert blackman portrait of miss jones used in the movie and am trying to learn if it still resides with the selznick family .
portrait of jennie is an unusual screen romance. the story of an ethereal romance between two generations is told with style, taste and dignity. william dieterle has given the story sensitive direction and his guidance contributes considerably toward the top performances from the meticulously cast players. the script, by paul osborn and peter berneis, taken [ … ]
news item, the film was acquired for redistribution in december 1973. nat king cole' s 1949 hit ,
portrait of jennie ,
music by j. russell robinson and lyrics by gordon burdge, was not heard in the film. according to modern sources, gregory peck and laurence olivier were considered for the role of eben adams .
l eave it to some inventive showman and things will always be improved upon, and so was the case with showings of, portrait of jennie, in new jersey. the manager of the walter reade’s community theatre in morristown expanded the impact of the storm scene in jennie. each showing was accompanied by three flash bulbs for photos, which were placed in the floodlights located at the base of the stage. when lightning flashed on screen, the booth operator hit the switch setting off the flash bulbs. the stunt was well received and was used for each viewing. [ 89 ]
i have seen this wonderful film about 4 times - each time i get lost in the fantasy of a timeless romance and love. the performances are so perfect - from barrymore to lillian gish. you want it to go on forever - and the ending with the portrait is mesmerizing. i wonder what happened to the portrait. does anyone know ?
an intriguing take on time travel. the whole
true love across time
trope seems well covered at this point, but
portrait of jennie ,
coming out in 1940, could be one of the first times it appeared. unfortunately, however, i found the book boring. i feel it would have been better as a short story .
rupert, i' ve seen portrait of jennie many times, including recently on tcm. this last time around, i enjoyed its views on art... the idea that one single work - - inspired by events real or imagined - - can capture a timeless emotion to be appreciated by so many .
i n december of 1943, m - g - m bought portrait of jennie, a popular novel written by robert nathan in 1939. [ 19 ] michael arlen was set to adapt the novel for mgm (he had just completed collaborating on, the heavenly body) and the speculation was that susan peters, fresh off of, song of russia (which was released february 10, 1944) would star in the title role. [ 20 ]
in the original novella jennie did not die in a tsunami, but was washed overboard from an ocean liner .
tcm celebrates the 100th anniversary of a musical legend with three nights of programming devoted to some of leonard bernstein' s... more
this film has an aura of mystery, suspense, and sweetness. is jennie a ghost? and is there any way for these lovers to be together ?
jennie is simply amazing. she painted a gorgeous portrait at my daughter' s wedding reception, and her work added such a special and unique touch that the guests enjoyed watching. she even let my granddaughter, who was the flower girl, add a l ...
m orris rosen, who is listed as a grip for portrait of jennie on the internet movie data base, actually was the head grip for the production; [ 65 ] rosen saw work as a grip on more than forty movies, including: duel in the sun, rope, the men and on the beach .
the fragile and wistful little story of a young artist who falls in love with a ghost, which was told by robert nathan in his
portrait of jennie
, nine years ago, has been brought to the screen by david o. selznick in a large, splashy, sentimental film which reaches its characteristic climax in a howling hurricane that will blast you out of your seat. view full article in timesmachine »
in this film, joseph cotten plays an artist who meets an intriguing schoolgirl named jennie. over the next few months cotten meets jennie again and again, eventually uncovering evidence that he has been conversing and falling in love with the ghost of a girl who died years earlier .
from humble beginnings in honesdale, pa. , the artist jennie brownscombe (1850 - 1936) trained and worked to establish a successful career in new york city and abroad. the exhibition “an ideal subject: the art of jennie brownscombe” addresses her role as a genre, history and portrait painter whose works were often commercially reproduced, as well as the challenges she faced as a woman artist working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries .
portrait of jennie combines the fantasy romance with the künstlerroman in a lyrical and highly imaginative, yet poignant, celebration of humanity’s ability to triumph over time. in 1938, eben adams, a new york artist, is experiencing a winter of the mind, a time when nothing he paints turns out right. walking through central park on a cold afternoon, he encounters a young child playing hopscotch and converses with her. she gives her name as jennie appleton but offers no explanation of her unusual aloneness. as they part, she asks him to wait for her to grow up .
d imitri tiomkin was selected to compose the music for jennie, in august of 1948; at that point the projected opening date was early october. [ 57 ]
my husband surprised me with jennie at our wedding! i walked up to the dance floor and there she was, painting the barn and our guests. jennie is not only incredibly talented at capturing the evening in her work, she is also a highlight of the ...
in the original robert nathan novella jennie was visible to other characters beside evan. in the film she was not .
“everything goes. / the wind blows, / the sea flows - - / and nobody knows. (11) robert nathan’s “portrait of jennie” is a poetic, haunting and beautiful surprise of a novel. i find it interesting that there seems so much ink spelled on discussing whether this is a ghost story, or a time - travelling romance. but the idea of a time - traveler, a ghost, a haunting is really one in the same. we have a person here, jennie, who is from another time, and has ended up in the present, somehow, of 1930s new yo
eben sketches the little girl and sells it to miss spinney, who understands that he’s found his muse. he goes iceskating, and out of nowhere jennie comes to him and they enjoy an afternoon together, skating — though she unnerves him by wanting to skate very fast and dangerously — and sharing some cocoa. he asks about her parents again, and jennie says she’ll get them into see them, for free. she sticks with her story, and of course eben is mystified and intensely curious. jennie says she’s growing up fast for him — whatever that means — but it seems to be true, as she’s clearly older than she was before. it’s all very mysterious, to be sure. she’s delighted that eben wants to paint her portrait, a portrait of jennie. can he come see her? she gives him an enigmatic answer — “i don’t think there’s any place you can come and see me…yet. ” we and eben wonder that that’s supposed to mean .
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j ennie publicist paul macnamara, thought of using a gigantic (100 feet by 100 feet) reproduction of the portrait from the movie in tow by an airplane through the skies of southern california. [ 84 ] i wish i could verify if macnamara followed through on his idea, but sad to say i have not .
more troubling still is the look of fear that comes into jennie' s eyes when she gazes at adams' portrait of a roily new england sea or when she sings the lyrics to her signature, haunting refrain
where i come from nobody knows / and where i' m going everything goes. / the wind blows, the sea flows / and nobody knows
before disappearing yet again .
while working on this article, i glanced at several other reviews of the film just to get an idea of what other people think of it. one review in particular caught my eye. it was an article written by ed gonzalez written for slant magazine, the link to which i have provided below. gonzalez argues that portrait of jennie is a metaphor for the creative process. he states that the film details eben as an artist coming to terms with his dependency on his muse. gonzalez writes :
a suitably earnest joseph cotten stars in this supernatural love story as eben adams, whose attempts to sell his landscape paintings are largely unsuccessful. but adams' first portrait, of the bewitching jennie appleton (jennifer jones), whom he first encounters in the park, immediately sells to gallery owner miss spinney (ethel barrymore). miss spinney takes the young painter under her wing and proves just as intrigued by adams' tales of the phantom - like jennie, who comes and goes at will, as she is by adams' stunning portraits of the sad - eyed girl .
this is one of the most beautifully lighted movies i’ve ever seen! it also has an unusual, engaging, and (unapologetically) romantic storyline. if you liked the ghost and mrs. muir, you should check out portrait of jennie. eben adams (joseph cotton) is a struggling artist in nyc, hoping and waiting for a spark of inspiration. he paints for a living, earns some money, but wants to create a great piece .
miss spinney (barrymore), an art gallery owner, tells penniless artist eben adams (cotten) that he needs to find inspiration to make his paintings really great. while strolling through central park on a cold winter day, he meets an enchanting young girl named jennie who is dressed in clothing from an earlier time. subsequent meetings with jennie reveal that she has grown older and eben finds himself falling in love with her. he paints a beautiful portrait of her which reveals to miss spinney that he has found his inspiration. but as eben discovers the secret of jennie' s past, he must race against time to keep tragic events from happening again .
as the school' s mother superior, who tells adams during a fact - finding visit, that jennie died years ago .
i' m jennie thompson, parent governor, and my oldest son is now in year 3 at barlow hall primary school .
who was she? where had she come from? was jennie a dream, a memory, a lovely ghost from the past? or had she stepped from anther world into this? eben adams could only guess at the answer. but he understood that jennie, because she dared to love him, had fused past and present into the delightful delicate magic of
now .
and tomorrow? could jennie triumph over tomorrow too ?
j. c. penny hosted a “fashion carnival” in connection with the release of jennie in salt lake city; the fashion show was staged at the uptown theatre. [ 92 ]
jennie appleton: i know we were meant to be together. the strands of our lives are woven together and neither the world nor time can tear them apart. see more »
( 1948) is a romantic fantasy with shades of mystery and more than its share of haunting beauty .
c lem beauchamp who was the production manager of over twenty - five films (champion, cyrano de bergerac, high noon and the defiant ones) was the unit manager for jennie .
v eteran makeup man mel berns (citizen kane, the magnificent ambersons) acted as the makeup director for jennie. [ 61 ]
it is reported that no less a masterful writer than f. scott fitzgerald considered robert nathan to be one of his favorite writers. that alone would have attracted my attention. i am pleased to agree that mr. nathan is a wonderful writer. portrait of jennie is probably his most famous book, owing to a very high - profile motion picture made of it from the selznick studios. as is so often the case, the movie is no substitute for the book. this is a romantic fantasy in a similar style of later writer r
lonely and magical, portrait of jennie is often cited as a romantic fantasy masterpiece. thanks to a classic film starring joseph cotten and jennifer jones, it is the one book title by this sadly almost forgotten author which is vaguely familiar to modern readers. perhaps because there is something pure and lovely in his gentle tales, his oeuvre is incompatible with the crass harshness of modern life, and much of modern literature. that makes them no less wonderful, however, and for some readers ,
when eben later encounters jennie ice skating in the park, she appears to have grown older, as though approaching her teen years. he makes further sketches after their brief encounter, and mr. mathews buys them as well. afterward, jennie appears at his apartment and twice sits for her portrait. each time she seems to have aged, and each time she manages to disappear as unexpectedly as she had appeared. during one of her visits to his small studio, she tells him that her parents ...
lux radio theater
broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on halloween night, october 31, 1949, with joseph cotten reprising his film role and anne baxter as jennie .
an eerie love story, portrait of jennie offers superb performances from cotten, as a struggling painter, and jones, as a girl from the past with whom he falls in love. it is 1932, the nadir of the depression, and cotten, a young painter who feels that his work lacks depth, sits glumly in new york city' s central park, contemplating his not - so - bright future... . read more
m orris rosen the head grip for selznick on portrait of jennie was the inventor of the all - angle - trackless - dolly; not satisfied, rosen made improvements on his own work. the mount was hand driven, could move forward, sideways, backward in one operation; he had developed and used what would become known as “rosie’s dolly” for the first time on alfred hitchcock’s, the paradine case, another david selznick production. [ 75 ]
my dear anonymous - - - i haven' t seen portrait of jennie (i' m not even sure how i stumbled on this review) - - - but i can' t leave this page without saying that i' ve probably never read more of an outpouring of tender emotion than i found in your reply. clearly, life hasn' t defeated you. my sincere congrats. as we used to say to our girlfriends in high school annuals ,
don' t ever change !
a hat was made, inspired by the title character of the film, the jennie beret, created by mallory and produced in eleven colors. [ 93 ] this chapeau really topped things off .
jennie & kelly' s wedding was so much fun! they got married in a wonderful church in minneapolis and had the reception at a school that held plenty of great family memories ...
i n june of 1948, selznick added ten more days of filming to the project; cecil barker, selznick’s assistant stayed in new york to oversee the background shots ordered by his boss. [ 52 ] in september, the release date for jennie was moved to the first quarter of 1949. [ 53 ]
j ules bricken supervised portrait of jennie while the project was in new york. [ 69 ] mr. bricken only had one other production in which he was a manager that was the 1948 release, close - up; he had two movies as producer, drango, 1957 and the train in 1964. the most productive portion of his career was in television as a director and producer. bricken had a thirty - six year stint in the entertainment industry .
first line - there is such a thing as hunger for more than food, and that was the hunger i fed on. there was a song by nat king cole inspired by this story - a portrait of jennie (1948). and more surprisingly, one by madness. also, the film is there on youtube too - i kid you not. re - visit 2015 is via the film urltoken
t ula designed a peignoir nonpareil, inspired by the, portrait of jennie. the enchanting boudoir ensemble, as it was described was manufactured in narco rayon crepe, delicate embroidery at the yoke, available in pink, white or blue, sizes 10 to 18; the set was offered for christmas shopping 1948, with retail prices ranging from $ 29. 95 to $ 32. 50. [ 94 ]
“portrait of jennie” is a film i avoided for years as so many people i knew dismissed it as a vanity piece by selznick for his girlfriend. in retrospect i think they were put off by its unabashed romanticism, which in earlier days i would have been put off by, too. poj made me realize that sometimes i don’t mind being a big ol’ girlie girl who watches film with the kleenex at the ready .
some of our favorite shots and moments of the summer happened during the day. impossible not to be delighted when the' golden' hour actually delivers on the promise of golden light !
portrait of jennie is one of my favorite films. i know so many of these classics... almost by heart! i' ve seen them so many times. as a child growing up in nyc in the 1950s, there was a nightly television program called
million - dollar movie
on channel 9 wor. they would show the same movie five nights in a row. the movies were often repeated. this was one of my favorites. have you seen
since you went away
or
so proudly we hail
? two more i recommend if you haven' t seen them .
at infrequent moments throughout the story, jennie reappears to adams, begging him to
wait until i grow up
so she can marry him. and each time she materializes she looks less like an adolescent and more like a young woman. adams finds both his greatest muse and greatest mystery in jennie and makes it his quest to find out more about the beguiling, beautiful girl. a visitation from another age, jennie tells stories of a family trapeze act long since vanished and of a convent school education. d. w. griffith star lillian gish makes an appearance in
anyway, it’s great to have friends (as bette miedler sings over the credits at the end of last of sheila) .
seit ich vor zwanzig jahren zum ersten mal william dieterles verfilmung von
portrait of jennie
sah, übt diese sonderbare geschichte noch immer die gleiche faszination auf mich aus. allerdings macht mir dieser umstand es auch schwer, die literarische vorlage angemessen zu beurteilen. das mysteriöse auftauchen und verschwinden sowie das schnelle altern jennys sind mir bekannt, ebenso wie das finale, auch wenn es hierbei auffallende unterschiede zwischen buch und film gibt. dennoch übt die melanch
i n the last days of shooting extra scenes for portrait of jennie, in central park, the very last scene was in the sheep meadow; fifteen sheep were hired from a hicksville farm. director william dieterle also contracted for a sheep dog, the scene cost selznick $ 800. 00 in overtime, resulting from a sheep stampede through central park, pursuing the sheep dog. the dog’s owner apologized for the animal’s behavior saying “the dog was frightened. he’s never seen sheep before. ” [ 70 ]
this unbridled notion that if you capture an audience and make them believe that what they are seeing is something that they are truly experiencing, is a feat that isn' t easily achieved, but one that dieterle has managed to master within the context of portrait of jennie. so confident is he, that he throws such a mind - blowing visual curve ball our way, as in the example of colorizing the finale, that you really have to admire the boldness of the effort. taking such strikingly abrasive techniques and inspiring visual cues to strengthen the overall feel of this epic story shows just how confident dieterle was on the overall pull that he had garnered over the course of the film' s run time. a truly inspiring move for a truly inspiring film .
jennie is a devine fantasy / romance. selznick always placed that quality stamp on his work, and jennifer will forever be remembered as “jennie appleton”, with joe cotten sweet, gentle and passionate as “eben”, the starving artist. joy! joy! joy! and hope, anytime you see it. .; )
. what director william dieterle managed to do was create a film that was simultaneously a powerful love story and a supernatural…thriller? no, thriller isn’t the right word. it’s more like a supernatural curiosity, like a more subdued episode of the twilight zone. there is something unnatural and unusual going on in portrait of jennie. and yet, the fantastical elements of the picture do not insist upon themselves. the story is about eben and his quest to capture his muse who may or may not be a figment of his imagination. after all, only he can see her. he learns that the historical jennie died years ago in a tragic boating accident. she couldn’t possibly really be there. and yet, such impossibilities are irrelevant. she is real to eben, the man who needs her most in the world .
no. i’m going to stop there. i refuse to spoil it for you. yes, there is a traditional hollywood rescue scene where eben desperately tries to save his beloved. but i’m not going to tell you what happens. all i will say is that while the set - up seems to be copy and pasted from a hundred other sappy love stories, the payoff is shockingly unique. all leads to a scene set in the present day where a group of schoolchildren attend a museum exhibit of eben’s work. the centerpiece is completed portrait of jennie. in a final sweep, the film briefly explodes into technicolor glory, showing that in the end eben was finally able to create a piece of art that transcended the natural world of the film to take on a life of its own .
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as the weather clears, the movie is now tinted a pleasant salmon pink (or something like that), and we see the lighthouse has withstood the storm. we find eben in bed recovering, still in new england, with miss spinney visiting him. whether or not she believed in jennie before, she might now. she is holding the scarf that was found on the beach, the scarf that jennie had received from eben, the scarf that she had left on the bench when she was a little girl. eben has it again, just as he has jennie, for eternity. which started a little earlier for jennie than it did for him, obviously…
jennie finds the scarf, the one that eben had since their first meeting in the park, many of her years ago. it disturbs her — is it part of the things that are going to happen, as she said before? — and when eben turns back to her, she has vanished .
the story of the famous battle between the scots clans of macdonald and campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, annie laurie .
it' s let down by a lack of explanation, but it' s a sweet book that i bet inspired a lot of people .
this all - star courtroom thriller is also an underrated study of a master artist’s social demons, embodying the very essence of the auteur theory .
they go to his studio where he works on the portrait, and it is now clear that they are in love — she’s finally old enough for him to kiss, at least! — and now that she’s here he can finish her portrait. she sits for him. she is tired and muses as he paints. “you know how you feel sad about things that haven’t even happened. perhaps they’re things that are going to happen. perhaps we know it, and are just afraid to admit it to ourselves. ” she falls silent and eben looks at her. is she dead? asleep? just asleep, it turns out. jennie is thrilled with the portrait, but also melancholy, getting those bad feelings again when she looks at eben’s lighthouse pictures. eben rhapsodizes about their love: “jennie, what is it that makes a man and a woman know that of all the other men and women in the world, they belong to each other? and is it just chance — their being alive in the world at the same time? …were there others, in other times of the world, whom we would have loved and who would have loved us? ” not according to jennie. “no…no others. among all the people who have lived from world’s end to world’s end, there’s just one you must love — one you must seek until you find him. ” so that’s what the movie’s about .
cast: jennifer jones (as jennie appleton), joseph cotten, ethel barrymore, cecil kellaway, lillian gish, david wayne, florence bates, henry hull, albert sharpe .
we don‘t know live painter - jennie lou art ‘s story by heart, but we can assure you it‘s pretty awesome. message them to get to know more about their business .
sidenote: i am waiting for the dvd release of the picture of dorian gray and hope that a morlock will chime in on that one soon .
very good write up for this hidden gem of classic film. i stumbled upon portrait on tcm a little while ago while channel surfing. osborne mentioned a ghost and, being a horror junkie, i couldn’t resist. well after watching it i wouldn’t quite put it in the horror genre, but i would emphatically recommend it to anyone and everyone. this is one of the finest ghost stories you’ll find .
eben adams is an artist who can' t seem to sell a painting. miss spinney buys a painting but tells him that he' ll never be a great artist unless he finds something to inspire him. after he leaves, he runs into a little girl, jennie appleton. she' s wearing old fashioned clothes and talking about things that happened long ago. eben does a sketch of her, which he sells to miss spinney. she tells him that he' s found his inspiration. he runs into jennie a few weeks later and she' s aged three years. each time he meets her, she' s years older. eben begins painting her portrait. in the meantime, he has fallen in love with her. but, he knows there is something strange about jennie. why does she age so quickly? he sets out to find answers .
eben tells his friends, art dealer, and gallery owner (played by ethel barrymore) about jennie; she has become his inspiration. he looks for her in the park for several days. when he sees jennie again, she has grown a bit older! how can that be? eben asks to meet her parents, so he can get permission to paint her. jennie says that her parents died in a high - wire accident. she doesn’t give her address. eben does some research to find out more about this mysterious girl .
inspired by his second encounter, eben is swept into a whirlwind of inspiration. soon, his work affords him new clothes, hearty meals, and a new sense of accomplishment. and yet, like the late autumn, early winter sky, he feels empty. to him, jennie is more than a muse, she is life itself. he goes to the park trying in vain to find jennie. nobody seems to have seen her. in fact, nobody seems to have remembered seeing her at all.
portrait of jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by robert nathan . the film was directed by william dieterle and produced by david o. selznick . it stars jennifer jones and joseph cotten . 
portrait of jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by robert nathan. the film was directed by william dieterle and produced by david o. selznick. it stars jennifer jones and joseph cotten.
portrait of jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by robert nathan. the film was directed by william dieterle and produced by david o. selznick. it stars jennifer jones and joseph cotten.