Portrait of Jennie
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$4 041 000
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J. McMillan Johnson
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Short description
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, producer David O. Selznick (1902-1965) planned to film the movie over several years, casting a young actress as Jenny and shooting parts of the film as she grew up. Had this idea come to fruition, the role of Jenny would likely have been played by Shirley Temple (1928-2014), who was under contract with Selznick's studio at the time. In any case, Selznick found the idea of filming in this manner too risky and eventually discarded it.
- The portrait of Jenny, supposedly painted by the character played by Joseph Cotten (1905-1994), was actually the work of portraitist Robert Brackman (1898-1980). The actress who played Jenny, Jennifer Jones (born Phyllis Flora Ailey, 1919-2009), posed for Brackman in his Connecticut studio more than ten times.
- The film marked the end of David O. Selznick's (1902-1965) career as a distinguished Hollywood producer. Despite fairly warm reviews from critics, Selznick expressed regret in interviews on several occasions for having taken on the project at all. Work on the film dragged on, and the budget was significantly exceeded. Location shooting in New York was plagued by numerous difficulties and problems. Selznick himself rewrote the script repeatedly, constantly clashed with the crew, and even fired Hal S. Kern (1894-1985), the editor and his assistant with whom he had worked for many years (though Selznick immediately regretted this). Composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) left the film for other projects, and cinematographer Joseph H. August (1890-1947) died in September 1947, shortly after filming ended. Some scenes later required reshooting, a process that was not completed until October 1948. Overall, the film cost more than Selznick's most famous creation, "Gone with the Wind" (Victor Fleming, 1939), despite being far less epic and nearly half as long. Following the box office failures of this picture and another film, "The Paradine Case" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1947), Selznick worked on only one more film nearly a decade later, but "A Farewell to Arms" (Charles Vidor, 1957) also failed at the box office.
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