Unlike the original novella, only Eben can see Jennie, bringing up the possibility that she is but a ghost. The ghost theory is supported by her mild premonitions of their evenutal fate (which also differs in some ways from the novella), but we nevertheless hold out some hope that director (and the revolving cadre of five writers) intended the film to portray Jennie’s time travel.
Michael Main
There’s something different about that child. I wondered if my pencil could catch it.

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Variants

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  1. Portrait of Jennie, as by Paul Osborn, directed by William Dieterle (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 25 December 1948).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Paul Osborn
    David O. Selznick [uncredited]
    Ben Hecht [uncredited]
    Robert Nathan (based on a work by)
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by William Dieterle

Translations

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  1. German (dubbed).
    Jenny by Paul Osborn et al. , directed by William Dieterle, [See German Wikipedia.].
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Paul Osborn
    Robert Nathan (based on a work by)
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by William Dieterle
  3. German (dubbed): alternative German title.
    Jennie: Das Portrait einer Liebe by Paul Osborn et al. , directed by William Dieterle, [See German Wikipedia.].
  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Paul Osborn
    Robert Nathan (based on a work by)
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by William Dieterle

Previous Works

based on Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan (1940)

Indexer Notes

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  1. Credits—Wikipedia notes that five writers worked on the film, and we have taken those five writers from the IMDb credit list.