1940s Twilight Zone wannabe or unhinged rom-com-drama? A Portrait of Jennie (1948) review

Описание: We launch into the quirky world of “A Portrait of Jenny,” from 1948. A downplayed O. Selznick production, boasting secondary characters played by great names such as Ethel Barrymore and Lillian Gish. What can we say without spoiling the plot? What subgenre of fantasy does this story fall under? How does the Silent Era fit into all of it? And why are we doing math?

0:00 Portrait of Jennie (1948) by David O. Selznick
Mention "Wizard of Oz", "Gone with the Wind", "Rebecca"
1:42 It's a journey
3:20 Locations of New York City and Boston
Mention "On The Town"
5:20 Lillian Gish, Florance Bates, Ethel Barrmore, Maude Simmons
6:15 Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten
6:58 Now the SPOILERS (all the rest)
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7:33 Joseph Cotten as Eben Adams
Mention "The Twilight Zone"!
9:40 Ethel Barrymore as Miss Spinney
10:20 The buildup of the plot
12:00 Jennifer Jones as Jennie Appleton
13:00 Let's do math
15:10 Messing up fantasy rules
16:19 The book written by Robert Nathan
16:40 MGM & color film
18:00 Colored lights in the silent movie era
19:35 The color shot of the painting
20:25 Green versus sepia
21:13 Jennifer Jones as Jennie Appleton
21:50 Trite old, male gaze plot
Mention: The Girl in the Fireplace, Dr Who.
23:10 Miss Spinney as his patron
25:10 Possible LGBTQ bubble
26:00 Jennie Appleton & Eben Adams
28:00 Lillian Gish as Mother Mary of Mercy
28:40 Morals and ethics of the characters
30:00 A gothic, romance, feel-good movie

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Music: Magnetic Rag by Scott Joplin
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#PortraitofJennie (1948)

Director: #WilliamDieterle

Writers: screen play by
#PaulOsborn and #PeterBerneis
adaptation by #LeonardoBercovici
from the book by #RobertNathan
additional writing, uncredited, by
David O. Selznick & Ben Hecht

with:
#JenniferJones as Jennie Appleton
#JosephCotten as Eben Adams
#EthelBarrymore as Miss Spinney
#LillianGish as Mother Mary of Mercy
#CecilKellaway as Matthews
David Wayne as Gus O'Toole
Albert Sharpe as Moore
Henry Hull as Eke
Florence Bates as Mrs. Jekes
Felix Bressart as Pete
Clem Bevans as Capt. Cobb
Maude Simmons as Clara Morgan