Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

William Dieterle

Escritores:

Robert Nathan (novel)
Leonardo Bercovici (adaptation)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 abril 1949 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Fantasía | Misterio

Plot:

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

Plot Keywords:

Artist | Spiral Staircase | Hurricane | Love | Lightning

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Enchanting Spirit of Central Park

Reparto

Jennifer Jones	...	Jennie Appleton
Joseph Cotten	...	Eben Adams
Ethel Barrymore	...	Miss Spinney
Lillian Gish	...	Mother Mary of Mercy
Cecil Kellaway	...	Matthews
David Wayne	...	Gus O'Toole
Albert Sharpe	...	Moore (as Albert Sharp)
Henry Hull	...	Eke
Florence Bates	...	Mrs. Jekes (landlady)
Felix Bressart	...	Pete
Clem Bevans	...	Capt. Cobb
Maude Simmons	...	Clara Morgan

También conocida como:

Jennie (UK)
Tidal Wave
El retrato de Jennie (Venezuela) [es]
Jennie (Spain) [es]

Duración:

86 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Stereo (special stereo mix in final storm scene) | Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | USA:TV-PG | Finland:S | Germany:12 | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #12700) | UK:U

Locaciones de Filmación:

Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Compañía:

Vanguard Films

Trivialidades:

This was cinematographer Joseph H. August's last film. He died in late 1947 before the long and tumultuous production was completed, and was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Black & White Cinematography in 1949.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: During Eben's conversation with Pete, it becomes clear that Pete's moustache is fake when it starts to come away from his face.

Citas:

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.

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones The Whoopee Party (1932)

Banda de Sonido:

Nuages

The Enchanting Spirit of Central Park

It's the middle of the Depression, 1934, and struggling artist Joseph Cotten can't seem to find his muse. But one day he meets a strange, but enchanting girl while in Central Park. He resolves right then and there to paint a Portrait of Jennie.

Allowing for the fact that this is a fantasy, a whole lot of the story makes absolutely no sense. But you really don't care because Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones have an almost spiritual like chemistry. As Cotten investigates he finds there's real good reason for the girl's spirituality. Every time he meets her she seems to take some quantum leaps in her maturity.

The stars of Finian's Rainbow, Albert Sharpe and David Wayne, both appear in this film. This was David Wayne's big screen debut and I certainly did love the scene where he bamboozles Sharpe into commissioning Cotten to paint a mural of Michael Collins for his Irish pub. Cotten catches on and kind of goes with the flow.

Being this is a Jennifer Jones film by her husband David O. Selznick, this is still another vehicle for Selznick to exhibit the beauty that was Jennifer Jones. Every film she did, because Selznick interfered with all of them even if he wasn't directly producing, is a testament to his vision of her. Even when she's playing bad girls like Pearl Chavez or Ruby Gentry, you get a good idea what stirred David O. Selznick to devote the rest of his life to her career.

Ethel Barrymore as the society dowager and Lillian Gish as a Mother Superior are also well cast. Too bad those two had no scenes together, that would have been something.

Portrait of Jennie is an enchanting film about an enchanting girl played by one enchanting actress. What else can you say, but enchanting.