Portrait of Jennie Quotes

Portrait of Jennie is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Portrait of Jennie ended its run in 1970.

It features David O. Selznick as producer, Claude Debussy in charge of musical score, and Joseph H. August as head of cinematography.

Portrait of Jennie is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Portrait of Jennie is 86 min. long. Portrait of Jennie is distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization.

The cast includes: Jennifer Jones as Jennie Appleton, Florence Bates as Mrs. Jekes, Joseph Cotten as Eben Adams, and Ethel Barrymore as Miss Spinney.

Portrait of Jennie Quotes

Joseph Cotten as Eben Adams

• (Joseph Cotten) "Night's over; it's tomorrow."

• (Joseph Cotten) "The world of my art shall remain an empty box."

Florence Bates as Mrs. Jekes

• (Florence Bates) "I just can't understand a man fiddling away his time just painting things. Of course he did shovel some snow to pay part of last month's rent."
• (Mrs. Bunce) "Painting things? Women? Women in the --"
• (Florence Bates) "Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman and gentleman just don't paint "women in the -- ""
• (Mrs. Bunce) "No, of course not."

Jennifer Jones as Jennie Appleton

• (Jennifer Jones) "I know we were meant to be together. The strands of our lives are woven together and neither the world nor time can tear them apart."

• (Jennifer Jones) "Eben -- I want always just to sit and watch you paint."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Now that I've found the perfect model, I'll paint her again and again."
• (Jennifer Jones) "No, I; - I didn't mean that -- I mean I want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world."
• (Joseph Cotten) "You're the most beautiful thing in the world."

• (Jennifer Jones) "The strands of our lives are woven together.The world nor time can part us."

• (Jennifer Jones) "I wish that you would wait for me to grow up so that we could always be together."

• (Jennifer Jones) "How beautiful the world is Eben. The sun goes down in in the same lovely sky. Just as it did yesterday, and will tomorrow."
• (Joseph Cotten) "When is tomorrow, Jenny?"
• (Jennifer Jones) "Does it matter? It's always. This was tomorrow once."

• (Jennifer Jones) "There is no life, my darling, until you love and have been loved. And then there is no death."

• (Jennifer Jones) "I hate for it to stop, because when will we ever have it again?"

• (Jennifer Jones) "Where I come from nobody knows and where I am going everything goes. The wind blows, the sea flows, nobody knows. And where I am going, nobody knows."

Ethel Barrymore as Miss Spinney

• (Ethel Barrymore) "Don't be soft, Matthews. I'm an old maid, and nobody knows more about love than an old maid."

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