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Portrait of Jenny (Selznick), originally a wispy, sentimental fantasy by Robert Nathan, has become in Hollywood's hands a piece of purest fustian. The yarn it spins oncerns a young painter (Joseph Cotten) who falls in love with a twelve-year-old sprite of a girl named Jenny (Jennifer Jones). Though she has been dead for years, Jenny goes right on popping in & out of Cotten's life. What is more confusing, she is a few years older every time she appears and soon reaches an age where it is respectable for Gotten, who is aging only normally...
Jerome T. Kilty '50 will read the role of Coriolanus; Jan Farrand, Volumnia; Frederick A. Gwynne '51, Aufidius. Directors of the production are Lloyd S. Gilmour '50, David G. Nathan '51, and Lloyd W. Georgeson...
...them instead of the 50,000 who now buy the magazine. Says he: "I'm very happy to be back. It's like an opening-as if I were an actor, which of course I am. Last night at the Colony Restaurant, George Jean Nathan got up and welcomed me home...
Others in the cast of 30 include Peter D. Dibble '48 as Dr. Bradley, Virginia Donaldson as Nurse Preen, John Mannick '48 and Margaret Hughes as Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, in whose home the action takes place, and Barbara Nathan '48 as Aunt Harriett...
Hollywood has takes ever Jenny's story with results that although generally good, bog down rather sadly in one particular--a mistaken impression that a point made ones can be made fifth times. The plot is largely the same as Nathan left it, but whereas Nathan achieved his timeless effect unobtrusively, the movie continually harps on the strange by-products of Jenny's memory and her miraculous ability to hop about in time...