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Release Date: 1948

Cast: Nancy Reagan, Jennifer Jones, Henry Hull, David Wayne, Albert Sharpe, Brian Keith, Lillian Gish, Ethel Barrymore, Esther Somers, Florence Bates, Felix Bressart, Maude Simmons ...MORE

Cast: Nancy Reagan, Jennifer Jones, Henry Hull, David Wayne, Albert Sharpe, Brian Keith, Lillian Gish, Ethel Barrymore, Esther Somers, Florence Bates, Felix Bressart, Maude Simmons, Robert Dudley, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway, Anne Francis, Nancy Olson, Clem Bevans ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic Drama, Drama Film, Romance Film, Romantic Fantasy, Fantasy

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. In 1934, impoverished painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) meets a fey little girl named Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones) in Central Park, New York. She is wearing old-fashioned clothing. He makes a sketch of her from memory which involves him with art dealer Miss Spinney (Ethel Barrymore), who sees potential in him. This inspires him to paint a "Portrait Of Jennie". Eben encounters Jennie at... MORE

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. In 1934, impoverished painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) meets a fey little girl named Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones) in Central Park, New York. She is wearing old-fashioned clothing. He makes a sketch of her from memory which involves him with art dealer Miss Spinney (Ethel Barrymore), who sees potential in him. This inspires him to paint a "Portrait Of Jennie". Eben encounters Jennie at intermittent intervals. Strangely, she appears to be growing up much more rapidly than is possible. He soon falls in love with her, but is puzzled by the fact that she seems to be experiencing events that he discovers took place many years previously as if they had just happened. He sets out to investigate but does not reveal what he discovers to anyone, and is puzzled by what he finds. The book on which the film was based first attracted the attention of David O. Selznick, who immediately purchased it as a vehicle for rising star Jennifer Jones. Filming began in early 1947 in New York City and LESS