Portrait of Jennie

Los Angeles: Vanguard Films / Selznick International Pictures, 1946. First Temporary Draft script for the 1948 film.

One of the great melodramas—veering strongly into the realm of fantasy and ghost stories—of the late 1940s. Painstakingly developed by David O. Selznick and then sold to Vanguard Pictures (to whom Selznick International was sold). "Portrait of Jennie" is a romantic fantasy so strange and concept-driven that it has always eluded mass popularity. Joseph Cotten portrays a struggling artist who becomes enamored—and then obsessed—with a little girl named Jennie who inexplicably begins to grow to womanhood over a period of weeks.

Blue titled wrappers. 156 leaves, mimeograph duplication, with pink and blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11/29/46 and 12/12/46. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

[Book #135977]