Portrait of Jennie

Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones

Nice sort-of ghost story from 1949. JC meets a young girl in the park, sees her as a muse and eventually learns that she had died many years before. But she keeps appearing, older each time and the story is that they were two lonely people made for each other but born out of sync.

Pretty silly scenario but in spite of that I enjoyed this hollywood hokum. Both players were good and the production (David Selznick) first rate.  Similar to the later Somewhere in Time. There should always be a place for stories like this.

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