

Portrait of Jennie
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In Depression-era New York, painter Eben Adams despairs at his lack of success. One cold winter evening in Central Park, he meets enigmatic, old-fashioned Jennie Appleton, who captures his fancy when she asks him to wait for her to grow up. Soon after, Eben sells a sketch of Jennie to kindly art dealer Miss Spinny and, as he meets the oddly mutable Jennie in fleeting moments, begins to realize they share a special destiny.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4M
- Box office
- $1.5M
- Language
- English
- artist
- cape cod
- mysterious woman
- art dealer
- ghost story
- struggling artist
- portrait painting
- mysterious girl
- painter as artist
- supernatural drama
- art gallery owner
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR25 Dec 1948
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical12 Aug 1949
CanadaCA
- TheatricalG15 Jun 1949
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1314 Jul 1955
BrazilBR
- TheatricalL10 May 1949
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical23 Feb 1953
FinlandFI
- Theatrical9 Jan 1953
FranceFR
- TheatricalU3 May 1951
GermanyDE
- Theatrical123 Sept 1954
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT8 Mar 1950
JapanJP
- TheatricalG18 Jul 1951
MexicoMX
- Theatrical15 Sept 1949
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Portrait of Jennie was released on 25 December 1948.
Audience reviews
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John Chard
8/2/2019
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 a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/9/2022
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 i…
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