Portrait of Jennie 1948 123movies

Watch: Portrait of Jennie 1948 123movies, Full Movie Online – Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a pretty but odd young girl named Jennie Appleton appears and strikes up an unusual friendship with Eben..
Plot: A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 7,019
	87% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 79 Popularity: 4.415 | TMDB

Reviews:

This is a wonderfully captivating story featuring Joseph Cotton as (“Eben”) a struggling artist – he just cannot find inspiration. When he visits the gallery of Ethel Barrymore, she acquires one of his paintings – sympathy or shrewdness? Well, shortly afterwards he encounters the young “Jennie” (Jennifer Jones) and all of a sudden his outlook brightens, his life begins to take shape – but, is she what he thinks she is, needs her to be – is any of it? William Dieterle has assembled a super cast to support this gently bubbling and engaging story – Cecil Kellaway as Barrymore’s sidekick in the gallery “Matthews” and a very brief cameo from Lilian Gish all contribute really potently to this classy story. It is well photographed and delicately delivered, and that gave Cotton a chance to demonstrate that he was an actor with some depth to him. At the end, I thought – of course I know what is going happen. I didn’t !

Eerie, magnetic and just incredibly lovely.

Eben Adams is a struggling artist who feels his work has no real substance, but one day as he mopes around Central Park, a beautiful young girl by the name of Jennie Appleton meets his acquaintance. Totally enchanting, Jennie engages Eben in a conversation that doesn’t sit quite right with the time, then after singing him a haunting little tune she vanishes as quickly as she had appeared. From this point on, Eben’s life will never be the same, both artistically and emotionally.

Portrait Of Jennie can be bracketed in the multi genre department, part mystery, part romance and certainly fantastical, it’s a wonderfully put together picture that is ready made to lift the gloom on a dark winters night. It’s the sort of picture that I personally believe you are better going into without any real sense of plot preparation, there are plenty of great reviews for this picture readily available, and all are justified, I can but merely concur with the many positives this delightful picture has garnered.

Directed with a very astute awareness of the theme by William Dieterele, the picture benefits from excellent technical aspects across the board. Joseph Cotten gives perhaps one of his greatest performances as Eben Adams, while the classically beautiful Jennifer Jones (Jennie Appleton) lights up the screen as each scene with her in becomes hauntingly emotional. Wonderful support comes from Ethel Barrymore & Cecil Kellaway, whilst Lillian Gish pops up for a crucial, and impacting piece of work. Joseph August’s cinematography is simply brilliant, nominated for an academy award, the way he uses ethereal hues to influence the story is easy on the eye and fully forms the atmosphere. Dimitri Tiomkin takes up scoring duties, appealingly influenced by Claude Debussy, Tiomkin lays down a memorable score that has much to savour. And the final pat on the back goes to the special effects team who picked up the academy award for their excellent efforts.

Technically brilliant and with a story to match, Portrait Of Jennie is highly recommended viewing to those who want to be taken far away to some place rather nice, see it with someone you care about and give them a hug as the ending plays out. 8.5/10

Very interesting, very hard to forget
This movie has quite a lot going for it.

First of all, it is beautifully photographed – at times it looks as though you are watching a portrait moving. The acting is all terrific – Joseph Cotten is perfect as a down-on-his-luck artist who begins by selling a print to Cecil Kellaway and Ethel Barrymore. They encourage him to draw people rather than the still life pictures he’d been doing. He eventually runs into Jennie in Central Park and she intrigues him, to say the least. She mentions places and times that have long passed and sings a song that he cannot forget. The next time he runs into her she’s grown up a little, then every time they see one another she’d matured more and more. They normally see each other in Central Park but he does her portrait and its a masterpiece.

Movie is very unconventional for its time – there are no opening credits, the end credits are listed as “The actors are Jennifer Jones, etc., The Supporting Actors are Ethel Barrymore, etc.”; a black woman is used as an actual character rather than some sort of domestic; and its not all wrapped up in a pretty bow at the end. It might seem wordy and silly to some, but I really loved it.

I’ve admired Jennifer Jones since seeing “The Song of Bernadette” as a kid. Aside from that movie and “Beat the Devil”, unfortunately I haven’t seen a lot of her movies that seemed up to her talent. In this, she is exceptionally good and its not just a showcase for her talents put on screen by David O. Selznick – in reality, she’s in it far less than Cotten.

I understand the movie won an Oscar for the special effects, which are good but I didn’t need them to love the movie. 9/10.

One of the greatest stories of true love ever filmed
A bittersweet sense of melancholy permeates this stunning romantic fantasy, a film produced by David Selznick as a cinematic altar to his wife Jennifer Jones.

I adored Jones in Henry King’s THE SONG OF BERNADETTE, but I love Jones (almost as much as Joseph Cotten did) in PORTRAIT OF JENNIE.

Cotten is Eben Adams, an artist who meets the enigmatic Jennie (Jones) in Central Park. Their time together is always limited for Jennie is compelled to return home to a place Cotten will never visit.

At first just a sweet schoolgirl, Jennie appears to have aged unnaturally every time she re-appears to Cotten — eventually, she is old enough to acknowledge Cotten’s romantic and carnal intentions towards her.

This unusual, unique studio pic epitomizes “dreamy” for it is exceptionally surreal and photographed in a strange, re-texturized black and white (von Trier’s amazing BREAKING THE WAVES used a similar technique to introduce new scenes).

The climax, staged on a storm-swept island, is absolutely beautiful and immensely tragic.

Some have dismissed PORTRAIT OF JENNIE as amounting to nothing more than a series of pretty pictures. I passionately disagree. It is one of the greatest stories of true love ever filmed, and there is nothing false in its intensity or tone (not if you have loved like this).

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 26 min (86 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Director William Dieterle
Writer Robert Nathan, Paul Osborn, Peter Berneis
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 4 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 3 Channel Stereo (1956) (5.0) (L-R), Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor (color sequence by)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Magnascope (partly) (original release only), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm