This DVD item from MGM (Video & DVD) was reviewed on 24-Mar-2009.
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1) DVD DVD Portrait of Jennie by MGM (Video & DVD). One reason I don´t give 5 stars very much is so that I can say that a movie like this is above the crowd.
This love affair of an artist with a ghost could of have been done badly,
but here it is a story of two twinned souls displaced in time and space
that find each other.
The story turns their tragedy of love and loss into great art.
The acting and filming in places could have been better, but were
well enough to get a special effects Academy Award.
I´m very glad I saw this movie.¤ 2) DVD DVD Portrait of Jennie by MGM (Video & DVD). I love this movie. spell binding. love and time travel It´s a love story the even time could not stop¤ 3) DVD DVD Portrait of Jennie by MGM (Video & DVD). This is one of my most favorite movies! Joseph Cotton & Jennifer Jones are fabulous in this great movie from many years ago. This is definately a wonderful classic & I would recommend it to anyone!¤ 4) DVD DVD Portrait of Jennie by MGM (Video & DVD). In 1948 David O Selznick produced a cinematic love letter to Jennifer Jones with PORTRAIT OF JENNIE. It´s a haunting, and lovely little film, that has an almost dreamlike, surreal quality to it. Also, unlike most of Selznick´s prior films, which were elaborate, often overblown productions, this was a very private statement, quite subtle in character even as the plot develops and suspense builds leading up to a breathtaking storm sequence climax.
All the performances were first rate. Joseph Cotton was especially effective as the artist Eben Adams, and Jennifer Jones, as Jennie Appleton was simply wonderful. In fact, Selznick had so much confidence in her acting chops that he allowed her to play Jennie as a preteen in her first meeting with Eben, even though he could have used a young actress who resembled her in that role. Jones was 29 years old at the time. I always thought Jennifer Jones was an underrated actress in that period, even though she won an Oscar, and was nominated 4 other times. I just love her in this movie.¤ 5) DVD DVD Portrait of Jennie by MGM (Video & DVD). A lovely, haunting fantasy of Joseph Cotton meeting a girl (Jennifer Jones) from another age, who "grows up fast" in order to be with him only to die tragically. But she has made him able to paint deeply and importantly because of his love of her, and he faces the future with a different view of time and the meaning of life. (or is that my wishful thinking?) Beautifully acted, certainly a chick flick (sigh) but one of the best of the older classic movies with an excellent support cast of Ethel Barrymore & Lilian Gish.
You should see Joseph Cotton in Shadow of a Doubt as well, a completely different role in which he plays a serial killer posing as a loving uncle visiting his family. Excellent suspense movie with Teresa Wright as she gradually puts clues together and begins to suspect her beloved uncle, and begins to have mysterious accidents.¤ 6) DVD DVD Portrait of Jennie by MGM (Video & DVD). One of the most unusual romances ever filmed, Portrait of Jennie is the picture of sumptuousperfection. Starring Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane) and OscarĀ(r) winner* Jennifer Jones (A Farewell to Arms) in a ´sensitive, appealing performance (The Hollywood Reporter), this ´tender [and] poetic (Variety) tale is enthralling from its touching beginning to its haunting conclusion. When struggling artist Eben Adams (Cotten) meets the beautiful and mysterious Jennie (Jones), he is instantly captivated. Before long, Jennie has become his great muse and he is enjoying success and bliss beyond his dreams. But there is a price to pay for such elation, and soon Eben must face the truth about who Jennie really is. *1943: Actress, The Song of Bernadette¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 21-Apr-2009, 0792862155027616903846, 6RB-NZB-4DB-XIB-YCB-Z6B-OEB-1IB-8 
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