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Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While painting in Central Park one morning, Eben makes the acquaintance of a schoolgirl named Jennie (Jennifer Jones), who prattles on about things that happened years ago. Intrigued at her thorough knowledge of the past, Eben is about to converse with her further, but Jennie has vanished. Over the next few months, Eben meets Jennie again and again -- and each time she seems to

Nov 28, 2000

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Fine period melodrama starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.

September 30, 2006 Comment
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

Honest-to-goodness romantic ghost story.

October 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Wonderful romantic mystery, sure to haunt your memory

November 12, 2004 Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

Quite possibly the most utterly romantic movie ever made.

October 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

William Dieterle's 1948 masterpiece Portrait of Jennie is not only an unabashedly romantic melodrama but also a fascinating ghost story.

June 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Directed 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.

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid
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Audience Reviews for Portrait of Jennie

Killer. So damn romantic. Like a black and white Vertigo meets Stairway To Heaven in depression era New York but without any crimes or trials. The theme even sounds like Vertigo's. Go Selznick!

March 29, 2007
brooklynspo

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wonderful cinematography, overbearing tiomkin score, silly melodrama with supernatural elements that requires huge suspension of disbelief, then works like gangbusters. soo selznick...

December 10, 2007
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