Portrait of Jennie (Blu-ray)

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Blu-ray Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: October 24, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1948
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1948 - Best Sound Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1948 - Best Special Visual Effects: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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Total Count: 12

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,994
Rating: 4/4 -- William Dieterle's 1948 masterpiece Portrait of Jennie is not only an unabashedly romantic melodrama but also a fascinating ghost story. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Jun 27, 2001
Rating: A -- Honest-to-goodness romantic ghost story. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 23, 2005
Rating: 5/5 -- Quite possibly the most utterly romantic movie ever made. Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Oct 23, 2002
Rating: 5/5 -- Wonderful romantic mystery, sure to haunt your memory
Kalamazoo Gazette
Nov 12, 2004
Rating: 2/4 -- Hasn't aged well in the interim either, putting an awkward romance front-and-center that makes one wonder whose fantasy this was in the first place. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jun 4, 2019
Rating: 3.5/4 -- 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. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Feb 13, 2001
Rating: 4/5 -- Fine period melodrama starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Sep 30, 2006

Product Description:

William Dieterle brought a high level of skill and intelligence to the genres of fantasy and romance, and the Robert Nathan novella proved a nearly perfect showcase for his talent. The film stars Joseph Cotten as Eben Adams, a struggling, world-weary artist who has labored long without success. While painting in New York's Central Park, he meets an ethereal young girl named Jennie (Jennifer Jones), who tells him stories from a distant era. Every few months, the mysterious Jennie appears to the painter, and each time she is a few years older, finally meeting him as a grown woman. Adams is so inspired by her radiance that his drawings of her surpass anything he's done, and they bring him his first success. Yet, even as he falls in love with this intriguing woman, the painter realizes that the world she discusses has no bearing on the one he knows, and he begins to research her origins in the hope of finally understanding who she is. That such a slender scenario could provide such a delicately haunting experience owes much to its outstanding cast--which also includes LillIan Gish, Ethel Barrymore, and David Wayne--to the mesmerizing photography of Joseph August, and to the taste and skill of Dieterle.

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  • UPC: 738329215231
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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