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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Down to the Sea In Ships. A fairly seaworthy version of the old whaling yarn, with Richard Widmark in his first sympathetic role (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Down to the Sea in Ships. A fairly seaworthy version of the old whaling yarn, with Richard Widmark in his first sympathetic role (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Down to the Sea in Ships. A fairly seaworthy version of the old whaling yarn, with Richard Widmark in his first sympathetic role (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Last week it came down. The Celanese Corp. of America, third biggest U.S. yarn producer, trimmed its prices of rayon (acetate staple fiber) by 12.5% to 42? a lb., lowest in its history. As other producers, weavers, converters and jobbers began cutting prices to the new pattern, the whole industry joined in its first big postwar price battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calculated Gamble | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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