Portrait of Jennie (1948) | |
| Director(s) | William Dieterle |
| Producer(s) | David Hempstead (associate), David O. Selznick, Cecil Barker (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Fantasy, Film Adaptation, Mystery, Romance |
| Top Topics | Artists, Book-Based, Ghosts, New York, Romance (Drama) |
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Portrait of Jennie (1948) was a Fantasy - Romance Film directed by William Dieterle and produced by David O. Selznick, David Hempstead and Cecil Barker.
Academy Awards 1948 --- Ceremony Number 21 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Cinematography | Joseph August | Nominated |
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Portrait of Jennie (1948)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 2, 2017 From 4 Star FilmsThe strands of our lives are woven together and neither time nor the world can break them. From the outset, you get a sense from the grand philosophical dialogue and imagery that we are being treated to a classical Hollywood precursor to Terence Malick’s Tree of Life. Quotes from?Euripides and... Read full article
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 2, 2017 From 4 Star FilmsThe strands of our lives are woven together and neither time nor the world can break them. From the outset, you get a sense from the grand philosophical dialogue and imagery that we are being treated to a classical Hollywood precursor to Terence Malick’s Tree of Life. Quotes from?Euripides and... Read full article
Portrait of Jennie, a Production Journal, of a Timeless Christmas Gift
By C. S. Williams on Dec 22, 2016 From Classic Film AficionadosGlimpses of the Portrait of Jennie in 1948: Portrait of Jennie had its general public premier on Christmas Day, 1948, at the Carthay Circle Theater, located at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, California; a more than fifteen-hundred seat theater, with nearly one-thousand on the main floor. T... Read full article
Portrait of Jennie, a Production Journal, of a Timeless Christmas Gift
By C. S. Williams on Dec 22, 2016 From Classic Film AficionadosGlimpses of the Portrait of Jennie in 1948: Portrait of Jennie had its general public premier on Christmas Day, 1948, at the Carthay Circle Theater, located at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, California; a more than fifteen-hundred seat theater, with nearly one-thousand on the main floor. T... Read full article
Portrait of Jennie and the Wisdom of Ethel Barrymore
By Virginie Pronovost on Aug 18, 2016 From The Wonderful World of CinemaThe Barrymore. Ah, that legendary family of actors! Ethel, John and Lionel, the three siblings were children of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Emma Drew, themselves actors. Acting in the family kept going on as the years passed. John and his?third wife,?Dolores Costello, also an actress, had a son,... Read full article
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Quotes from Portrait of Jennie
Eben Adams: Now that I've found the perfect model, I'll paint her again and again.
Jennie Appleton: No, I-I didn't mean that... I mean I want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world.
Eben Adams: [smiles, holds her tight] You're the most beautiful thing in the world.
Jennie Appleton: I hate for it to stop, because when will we ever have it again?
Jennie Appleton: There is no life, my darling, until you love and have been loved. And then there is no death.
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Facts about Portrait of Jennie
The portrait of Jennie supposedly painted by Joseph Cotten's character, Eben Adams, was in reality created by artist Robert Brackman. Jennifer Jones came in for more than a dozen sittings in Brackman's Connecticut studio.
Bernard Herrmann was hired to write an original background score and did compose several themes but due to various production delays as well as the fact that Herrmann was tiring of David O. Selznick's demands, he dropped out and was replaced by Dimitri Tiomkin who, at the insistence of Selznick, ended up using themes by Claude Debussy. At the time Tiomkin was condemned by his colleagues for his adaptations. All that remains of Herrmann's contribution is the haunting song sung by Jennie entitled "Where I Come From, Nobody Knows".
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