See One of the Most Beautiful, Heartbreaking, Movie Fantasies, from the Decade of Fantasy! Jenny and King Cotten Star in Robert Nathan, Paul Osborn, Peter Berneis and William Dieterle’s A Portrait of Jennie (1948), with Ethel Barrymore and Cecil Kellaway; Catch It before the KK Do! Presented Complete, Free, and without Commercial Interruption, at WEJB/NSU!

Re-posted by N.S.

I believe that Paul Osborn’s eponymous, 1940 novel, which was made into this classic picture, hugely influenced Robert Montgomery’s classic, 1947 crime movie, Ride the Pink Horse.





The WEJB/NSU Theater, 1902-1971:

Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902);

The Great Train Robbery (1903);

C.B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (1914);

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915);

D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916);

Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms (1918);

Starring “Jack”: See the 1920 Silent Picture Classic of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde;

Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920);

Buster Keaton's One Week (1920);

D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920);

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1921);

The Kid (1921), Charlie Chaplin’s First Feature as Director;

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s First Pictures Featuring the Evil Genius, Dr. Mabuse: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, Teil I (Dr. Mabuse, the Player, Part I); and

Dr. Mabuse, Teil II: Inferno (both 1922, released one month apart) with English Subtitles;

James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon (1923);

John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924);

Charlie, in The Gold Rush (1925);

Lon Chaney, in The Phantom of the Opera (1925);

Buster Keaton’s The General (1926);

John Ford’s 1926 Western, 3 Bad Men;

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (1927);

“Wild Bill” Wellman’s Restored, Classic Silent Picture, Wings (1927), One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners;

F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, One of the First Two Best Picture Oscar Winners);

Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s Dystopian Science Fiction Epic, Metropolis (1927), the Greatest S/F Picture Ever, Plus Its Soundtrack Suite;

Frank Borzage and Austin Strong’s Seventh Heaven (1927);

St. Louis Blues (1929);

Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou’s First Talkie: M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (M: A City Searches for a Murderer);

Paul Robeson in Eugene O'Neill’s The Emperor Jones (talkie, 1933);

His Girl Friday (1940);

Since You Went Away (1944); and

The Last Run (1971).