Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Portrait of Jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by Robert Nathan. The film was directed by William Dieterle and produced by David O. Selznick. It stars Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.

Production[edit]

The book on which the film was based first attracted the attention of David O. Selznick, who immediately purchased it as a vehicle for Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones. Filming began in early 1947 in New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, but Selznick was unhappy with the results and scheduled re-shoots as well as hiring and firing five different writers before the film was completed in October 1948. The New York shooting enabled Selznick to use Albert Sharpe and David Wayne who were both appearing on stage in Finian's Rainbow, giving an Irish flair to characters and the painting in the bar that was not in Nathan's novel.

As Portrait of Jennie was a fantasy, Selznick insisted on filming on actual Massachusetts (The Graves Light) and New York City locations (Central Park, The Cloisters, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art) as opposed to studio sets, which dramatically increased the film's production costs.^[3] The film's major overhaul came when Selznick added a tinted colorsequence for the final scenes. The final shot of the painting, appearing just before the credits, is in full Technicolor.

Portrait of Jennie was highly unusual for its time in that it had no opening credits as such, except for the Selznick Studio logo. All the other credits appear at the end. Before the film proper begins, the title is announced by the narrator (after delivering a spoken prologue, he says, "And now, 'Portrait of Jennie'").

The portrait of Jennie (Jennifer Jones) was painted by artist Robert Brackman. The painting became one of Selznick's prized possessions, and it was displayed in his home after he married Jones in 1949.

The film is notable for Joseph H. August's atmospheric cinematography, capturing the lead character's obsession with Jennie, amongst the environs of a wintry New York. August shot many of the scenes through a canvas, making the scenes look like actual paintings. August, who used many lenses from silent film days,^[4] died shortly after completing the film. He was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Dimitri Tiomkin used themes by Claude Debussy, including Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), the two Arabesques, "Nuages" and "Sirènes" from the suite Nocturnes, and La fille aux cheveux de lin, with the addition of Bernard Herrmann's "Jennie's Theme" to a song featured in Nathan's book ("Where I came from, nobody knows, and where I am going everyone goes"), utilizing a theremin. Herrmann was assigned the original composing duties for the film but left during its extended shooting schedule.

A scene of Jennie and Eben having a picnic after witnessing the ceremony in the convent, features in the original screenplay. It was filmed but deleted when it looked as if Jennie's hair was blending into the tree next to her. The scene that featured Jennie doing a dance choreographed by Jerome Robbins took over ten days to film,^[4] but was not used in the completed film.

Cast[edit]

• Jennifer Jones as Jennie Appleton

Filmography[edit]

Ray Corrigan, Jennifer Jones and John Wayne in New Frontier (1939)

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1939	New Frontier	Celia Braddock	as Phyllis Isley; film debut[8]
	Dick Tracy's G-Men	Gwen Andrews	as Phyllis Isley; 15-chapter serial
1943	The Song of Bernadette	Bernadette Soubirous	Academy Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Locarno International Film Festival - Best Actress
1944	Since You Went Away	Jane Deborah Hilton	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1945	Love Letters	Singleton/Victoria Morland	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
1946	Cluny Brown	Cluny Brown	Locarno International Film Festival - Best Actress
	Duel in the Sun	Pearl Chavez	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
1948	Portrait of Jennie	Jennie Appleton
1949	We Were Strangers	China Valdés
	Madame Bovary	Emma Bovary
1950	Gone to Earth	Hazel Woodus
1952	Carrie	Carrie Meeber
	Ruby Gentry	Ruby Gentry
1953	Beat the Devil	Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm
	Terminal Station	Mary Forbes	Re-released as Indiscretion of an American Wife
1955	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	Dr. Han Suyin	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (3rd place) Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
	Good Morning, Miss Dove	Miss Dove
1956	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit	Betsy Rath
1957	The Barretts of Wimpole Street	Elizabeth Barrett
	A Farewell to Arms	Catherine Barkley
1962	Tender Is the Night	Nicole Diver
1966	The Idol	Carol
1969	Angel, Angel, Down We Go	Astrid Steele	a.k.a. Cult of the Damned
1974	The Towering Inferno	Lisolette Mueller	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

See also[edit]

• Joseph Cotten as Eben Adams

Accolades[edit]

Joseph Cotten received a Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his work in Portrait of Jennie.

Cultural references[edit]

In the film, Me and Orson Welles (2008), Cotten is portrayed by James Tupper.^[18]

Theatre credits[edit]

Date	Title	Role	Notes
October 17, 1932 – January 1933	Absent Father	Larry	Vanderbilt Theatre, New York[19]
December 19, 1933 – January 1934	Jezebel	Dick Ashley	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York[19]
February 4 – February 1934	Loose Moments	Ralph Merkes	Vanderbilt Theatre, New York[19]
September 26 – December 5, 1936	Horse Eats Hat	Freddy	Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York[5]:334
January 8 – April 1, 1937	Faustus	2nd Scholar	Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York[5]:335–336
April 21–23, 1937	The Second Hurricane	Airplane pilot[20]:33	Henry Street Settlement, New York City[5]:337
November 11, 1937 – May 28, 1938	Caesar	Publius	Mercury Theatre, New York[5]:339–340 Moved to the larger National Theatre January 24, 1938[5]:341[21]
December 25, 1937	The Shoemaker's Holiday	Rowland Lacy	Mercury Theatre, New York Surprise preview performance immediately following Caesar[22]:332
January 1 – April 28, 1938	The Shoemaker's Holiday	Rowland Lacy	Mercury Theatre, New York Moved to the National Theatre January 26, 1938[5]:341
August 16–29, 1938	Too Much Johnson	Augustus Billings	Stony Creek Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut[23][24]:50–51, 152–153
November 2–19, 1938	Danton's Death	Barrere	Mercury Theatre, New York[25][26]
March 28, 1939 – March 30, 1940	The Philadelphia Story	C. K. Dexter Haven	Shubert Theatre, New York[19]
November 11, 1953 – August 21, 1954	Sabrina Fair	Linus Larrabee, Jr.	National Theatre, New York Moved to the Royale Theatre May 17, 1954[19]

Radio credits[edit]

Date	Title	Role	Notes
1934	The American School of the Air	Repertory cast	[5]:331
July 14 – September 22, 1935	America's Hour	Repertory cast	[27]:30
1935	Farm Tenancy		Resettlement Administrationdrama[28][29]
November 14, 1936	Columbia Workshop		"Hamlet"[30]
May 9, 1937	The Second Hurricane	Airplane pilot	One-hour broadcast on CBS Radio[20]:34
September 5, 1938	The Mercury Theatre on the Air	Dr. Bull	"The Man Who Was Thursday"[5]:345[31]:50
October 9, 1938	The Mercury Theatre on the Air		"Hell on Ice"[5]:346[32]
October 16, 1938	The Mercury Theatre on the Air	Genesis	"Seventeen"[5]:346[31]:52
December 3, 1938	The Campbell Playhouse	Fred	"A Christmas Carol"[5]:348[31]:53[33][34]
January 6, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse		"Counsellor-at-Law"[5]:348[33][34]
January 13, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse	Fletcher Christian	"Mutiny on the Bounty"[5]:349[33][34]
January 20, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse		"The Chicken Wagon Family"[5]:349
January 27, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse	Riley	"I Lost My Girlish Laughter"[31]:53[33][34]
September 17, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse		"Ah, Wilderness!"[5]:354[33][34]
October 22, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse	The Cashier	"Liliom"[31]:58[33][34]
1939–40	The Career of Alice Blair	Male lead	[27]:138–139[35]
February 11, 1940	The Campbell Playhouse		"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"[31]:61[33][34]
September 22, 1941	Lux Radio Theatre	Michael Fitzpatrick	"Lydia"[36]
October 6, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367
October 13, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367[37]
October 20, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367
November 10, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367
December 1, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
December 7, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
December 22, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
December 29, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
March 22, 1942	The Silver Theatre	Jim Emerson	"Only Yesterday"[38]
November 23, 1942	Ceiling Unlimited		"The Navigator"[5]:375
December 21, 1942	Ceiling Unlimited		"Gremlins"[5]:374[39][40]
December 28, 1942	Ceiling Unlimited		"Pan American Airlines"[40]
January 17, 1943	Hello Americans		"Feed the World"[5]:376[41]
February 1, 1943	Cavalcade of America		"To the Shores of Tripoli"[42][43]
May 24, 1943	The Screen Guild Theater	Uncle Charlie	"Shadow of a Doubt"[44][45]
June 28, 1943	Lux Radio Theatre		"The Great Man's Lady"[36]
August 8, 1943 – April 30, 1944	America — Ceiling Unlimited	Host	Weekly half-hour variety series[40][46][47]
December 6, 1943	The Screen Guild Theater	Jim Emerson	"Only Yesterday"[44][45]
March 23, 1944	Suspense		"Sneak Preview"[48][49][50]
May 8, 1944	Lux Radio Theatre	Roger Adams	"Penny Serenade"[36]
June 5, 1944	Cavalcade of America		"Treason"[42][43]
September 14, 1944	Suspense		"You'll Never See Me Again"[48][50]
November 6, 1944	Democratic National Committee Program		Election-eve political broadcast[51][52]
November 13, 1944	The Screen Guild Theater	Johnny Case	"Holiday"[44][45]
November 26, 1944	The Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre		"Clarence"[53]
February 1, 1945	Suspense		"The Most Dangerous Game"[48][50]
February 6, 1945	A Date with Judy	Guest	"The Strange Case of Joseph Cotten"[54]
April 30, 1945	The Screen Guild Theater	Alessandro	"Ramona"[44][45]
June 4, 1945	Lux Radio Theatre	Holger Brandt	"Intermezzo"[36]
June 15, 1945	Weapon for Tomorrow		"Freedom of Information"[55]
September 18, 1945	Theater of Romance	Nathan Hale	"One Life to Lose"[56]
September 20, 1945	The Birdseye Open House	Guest	[57]
September 27, 1945	Suspense		"The Earth Is Made of Glass"[48][50]
October 11, 1945	Suspense		"Beyond Good and Evil"[48][50]
November 26, 1945	The Screen Guild Theater	Richard Kurt	"Biography of a Bachelor Girl"[44][45]
December 24, 1945	Lux Radio Theatre	Zachary Morgan	"I'll Be Seeing You"[36]
January 17, 1946	Suspense		"The Pasteboard Box"[48][50]
February 10, 1946	The Radio Reader's Digest		"Ultimate Security"[58]
April 22, 1946	Lux Radio Theatre	Alan Quinton	"Love Letters"[36]
May 2, 1946	Suspense		"Crime Without Passion"[48][50]
July 24, 1946	Academy Award Theatre		"Foreign Correspondent"[59][60]
September 11, 1946	Academy Award Theatre		"Shadow of a Doubt"[59][60]
September 24, 1946	The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players	Lou Gehrig	"The Pride of the Yankees"[61]
October 1, 1946	The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players	Max de Winter	"Rebecca"[61]
November 4, 1946	Lux Radio Theatre		"I've Always Loved You"[36][62]
December 5, 1946	The Radio Reader's Digest		"The Hard-Boiled Reporter and the Miracle"[58]
December 16, 1946	The Screen Guild Theater	Michael	"This Love of Ours"[44][45][63]
December 19, 1946	Suspense		"The Thing in the Window"[48][50]
December 25, 1946	The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players		"All Through the House"[61]
January 27, 1947	The Screen Guild Theater		"Swell Guy"[44]
March 5, 1947	The Eagle's Brood		Documentary on juvenile delinquency[64][65]
May 15, 1947	The Radio Reader's Digest		"Halfway to Reno"[58]
May 19, 1947	Cavalcade of America		"Witness by Moonlight"[42][43]
September 15, 1947	Lux Radio Theatre	Nicholas	"The Seventh Veil"[36]
October 26, 1947	Hollywood Fights Back		[66]
January 5, 1948	Lux Radio Theatre	Glenn Morley	"The Farmer's Daughter"[36][67]
January 26, 1948	Lux Radio Theatre	Devlin	"Notorious"[36][67]
February 12, 1948	The Radio Reader's Digest		"The Baron of Arizona"[58]
March 8, 1948	Lux Radio Theatre	John Ballantyne	"Spellbound"[36][67]
April 11, 1948	The Eternal Light		"The Man Who Remembered Lincoln"[68]
June 21, 1948	The Screen Guild Theater	Uncle Charlie	"Shadow of a Doubt"[45][69]
May 9, 1949	Lux Radio Theatre	Anthony Keane	"The Paradine Case"[36]
May 15, 1949	The Prudential Family Hour of Stars		"Breakdown"[70]
June 30, 1949	Suspense		"The Day I Died"[48][50]
October 24, 1946	Screen Directors Playhouse	Alan Quinton	"Love Letters"[71]
October 31, 1949	Lux Radio Theatre	Eben Adams	"Portrait of Jennie"[36]
March 10, 1950	Screen Directors Playhouse	Eben Adams	"Portrait of Jennie"[71]
March 15, 1950	Family Theater		"Germelshausen"[72]
March 30, 1950	Suspense		"Blood Sacrifice"[48][50]
June 11, 1950	Guest Star		"Portrait of a Small Gentleman"[73]
September 28, 1950	Suspense		"Fly by Night"[48][50]
October 9, 1950	Hollywood Star Playhouse		"Of Night and the River"[74][75]
November 30, 1950	Screen Directors Playhouse		"Mrs. Mike"[71]
January 2, 1951	Cavalcade of America		"An American from France"[42][43]
January 7, 1951	Theatre Guild on the Air	Holly Martins	"The Third Man"[76][77]
January 25, 1951	Screen Directors Playhouse		"Spellbound"[71]
February 15, 1951	Hallmark Playhouse		"A Man for All Ages"[78]
April 9, 1951	Lux Radio Theatre	Holly Martins	"The Third Man"[36][79]
September 30, 1951	Theatre Guild on the Air		"Main Street"[80]
October 2, 1951	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"Angel Street"[81]
October 18, 1951	Hallmark Playhouse		"Cashel Byron's Profession"[78]
November 5, 1951	Suspense		"The Trials of Thomas Shaw"[82]
January 24, 1952	Stars in the Air		"Enchantment"[83]
January 28, 1952	Suspense		"Carnival"[48][50]
January 31, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"Westward Ho"[78]
March 6, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"Man Without a Home"[78]
March 10, 1952	Suspense		"A Watery Grave"[48][50][84]
March 16, 1952	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"In a Lonely Place"[81][84][85]
March 27, 1952	The Screen Guild Theater		"Night Must Fall"[86]
September 7, 1952	Hollywood Star Playhouse		"The Tenth Planet"[74][75]
September 14, 1952	Theatre Guild On the Air		"The Wisteria Tree"[76]
October 12, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"Young Mr. Disraeli"[78]
December 22, 1952	Suspense		"Arctic Rescue"[48][50][87]
December 28, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"A Man Called Peter"[78][88]
January 11, 1953	Theatre Guild On the Air		"Jane"[76]
January 14, 1953	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"Hold Back the Dawn"[81][89]
January 18, 1953	Theatre Guild on the Air		"Trial by Forgery"[80][89]
January 26, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre	David Lawrence	"September Affair"[36]
March 1, 1953	The Bakers' Theater of Stars		"The Mango Tree"[90][91]
March 30, 1953	Suspense		"Tom Dooley"[48][50]
June 16, 1953	The Martin and Lewis Show	Guest	[92]
July 6, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre	Jim Warlock	"Cynara"[36][93]
August 3, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre		"Romance to a Degree"[36]
August 26, 1953	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"Love Letters"[81]
September 14, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre	Jim Osborne	"The Steel Trap"[36]
October 14, 1953	Radio Playhouse	Narrator	"Routine Assignment"[94]
October 24, 1953	The Grand Alliance		United Nations Day broadcast[95]
May 15, 1954	Salute to Eugene O'Neill	Narrator	All-star benefit for cerebral palsy[96]
December 15, 1957	Suspense		"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"[48][50]
August 2, 1959	Suspense		"Red Cloud Mesa"[48][50]

Film and television credits[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1938	Too Much Johnson	Augustus Billings	[97]
1940	Citizen Kane trailer	Himself, Jedediah "Jed" Leland	Short[5]:360
1941	Citizen Kane	Jed Leland / Screening Room Reporter	[98]
1941	Lydia	Michael Fitzpatrick	[98]
1942	The Magnificent Ambersons	Eugene Morgan	[98]
1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Uncle Charles Oakley	[98]
1943	Journey into Fear	Howard Graham	Screenplay (with uncredited Orson Welles)[98]
1943	Hers to Hold	Bill Morley	[98]
1944	Gaslight	Brian Cameron	[98]
1944	Since You Went Away	Lieutenant Tony Willett	[98]
1945	I'll Be Seeing You	Zachary Morgan	[98]
1945	Love Letters	Alan Quinton	[98]
1946	Duel in the Sun	Jesse McCanles	[98]
1947	The Farmer's Daughter	Glenn Morley	[98]
1948	Portrait of Jennie	Eben Adams	Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor[98]
1949	The Third Man	Holly Martins	[98]
1949	Under Capricorn	Sam Flusky	[98]
1949	Beyond the Forest	Dr. Lewis Moline	[98]
1950	September Affair	David Lawrence	[98]
1950	Two Flags West	Col. Clay Tucker	[98]
1950	Walk Softly, Stranger	Chris Hale	Shot in 1948[98]
1951	Half Angel	John Raymond, Jr.	[98]
1951	Peking Express	Michael Bachlin	[98]
1951	The Man with a Cloak	Dupin	[98]
1951	Othello	Venetian senator	Uncredited [98]
1952	The Wild Heart	Narrator	[98]
1952	Untamed Frontier	Kirk Denbow	[98]
1952	The Steel Trap	James Osborne	[98]
1953	Niagara	George Loomis	[98]
1953	A Blueprint for Murder	Whitney Cameron	[98]
1954	Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV)	Himself	Broadcast on all four U.S. TV networks
1954	Producers' Showcase (TV)	Grant Matthews	"State of the Union"
1954	General Electric Theater (TV)	Hanley	"The High Green Wall"
1955	Special Delivery	John Adams	[98]
1955	The Best of Broadway (TV)	Dan McCorn	"Broadway"
1955	Celebrity Playhouse (TV)	Marshal Fenton Lockhart	"Showdown at San Pablo"
1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)	William Callew	"Breakdown"
1955–1956	Star Stage (TV)	Narrator Alexander Holmes	"The Man in the Black Robe" "The U.S. vs. Alexander Holmes"
1956	The Bottom of the Bottle	P.M. Martin	[98]
1956	The Ford Television Theatre (TV)	John Ashburn	"Man Without a Fear"
1956	The Killer Is Loose	Detective Sam Wagner	[98]
1956	General Electric Theater (TV)	Captain Private Harris	"H.M.S. Marlborough Will Enter Port" "The Enemies"
1956–1959	The Joseph Cotten Show (TV)	Various roles
1957	The Halliday Brand	Daniel Halliday	[98]
1957	Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theater (TV)	Bruce Malone	"Contact"
1957	Telephone Time (TV)	Lt. Cmdr. Joseph P. Fyffe	"The Man the Navy Couldn't Sink"
1957	Playhouse 90 (TV)	Robert Rainey	"The Edge of Innocence"
1957	The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (TV)
1957	Schlitz Playhouse (TV)		"Neighbors"
1958	Zane Grey Theatre (TV)	Ben Harper	"Man Unforgiving"
1958	Suspicion (TV)	Gregg Carey	"The Eye of Truth"
1958	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)	Tony Gould	"Together"
1958	Touch of Evil	Coroner	Uncredited[98]
1958	From the Earth to the Moon	Victor Barbicane	[98]
1959	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV)	Black McSween	"The Day the Town Stood Up"
1959	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)	Courtney Masterson	"Dead Weight"
1960	The Angel Wore Red	Hawthorne	[98]
1960	The DuPont Show with June Allyson(TV)	Dick Burlingame Charles Lawrence	"The Blue Goose" "Dark Fear"
1960	Checkmate (TV)	Dr. George Mallinson	"Face in the Window"
1961	The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV)	Mac McClay	"The Hitch-Hiker"
1961	The Last Sunset	John Breckenridge	[98]
1961	Bus Stop (TV)	Professor Wheelright	"Cherie"
1961	Theatre '62 (TV)	Alex Sebastian	"Notorious"
1961	Wagon Train (TV)	Captain Dan Brady	"The Captain Dan Brady Story"
1962	Dr. Kildare (TV)	Charles Ladovan	"The Administrator"
1962	Saints and Sinners (TV)	Preston Cooper	"The Man on the Rim"
1961	Wagon Train (TV)	John Augustus	"The John Augustus Story"
1963	The Great Adventure (TV)	Captain Meehan	"The Death of Sitting Bull" "The Massacre at Wounded Knee"
1963	77 Sunset Strip (TV)	Arnold Buhler	"By His Own Verdict"
1963–1964	Hollywood and the Stars (TV)	Narrator
1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Dr. Drew Bayliss	[98]
1965	The Great Sioux Massacre	Major Reno	[98]
1965	The Money Trap	Dr. Horace Van Tilden	[98]
1965	The Tramplers	Temple Cordeen	[98]
1966	The Oscar	Kenneth H. Regan	[98]
1966	The Hellbenders	Col. Jonas	[98]
1967	Brighty of the Grand Canyon	Jim Owen	[98]
1967	Cimarron Strip (TV)	Nathan Tio	"The Search"
1967	Jack of Diamonds	Ace of Diamonds	[98]
1967	Some May Live	Col. Woodward
1968	Alexander the Great (TV)	Antigonus
1968	Days of Fire	Destil
1968	Petulia	Mr. Danner	[98]
1968	Ironside (TV)	Dr. Benjamin Stern	"Split Second to an Epitaph"
1968	It Takes a Thief (TV)	Col. Heinrich	"Hans Across the Border"[99]
1968	Journey to the Unknown (TV)		"Do Me a Favour and Kill Me" (UK)[100]
1968	White Comanche	Sheriff Logan
1969	Latitude Zero	Capt. Craig McKenzie	[98]
1969	The Lonely Profession (TV)	Martin Bannister
1969	Keene
1969–1970	It Takes a Thief (TV)	Mr. Jack	"To Lure a Man" "To Sing a Song of Murder" "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"[101]
1970	Cutter's Trail (TV)	General Spalding
1970	The Name of the Game (TV)	Henry Worthington Rayner	"The King of Denmark"
1970	The Grasshopper	Richard Morgan	[98]
1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Henry L. Stimson	[98]
1970	The Virginian (TV)	Judge Will McMasters Judge Hobbs	"A Time of Terror" "Gun Quest"
1971	Assault on the Wayne (TV)	Admiral
1971	Do You Take This Stranger? (TV)	Dr. Robert Carson
1971	City Beneath the Sea (TV)	Dr. Ziegler
1971	NET Playhouse (TV)	Narrator	"Trail of Tears"
1971	The Abominable Dr. Phibes	Dr. Vesalius	[98]
1971	Lady Frankenstein	Dr. Frankenstein
1972	The Screaming Woman (TV)	George Tresvant
1972	Doomsday Voyage	Captain Jason	[98]
1972	Baron Blood	Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
1972	The Scientific Cardplayer	George
1973	The Devil's Daughter (TV)	Judge Weatherby
1973	The Streets of San Francisco (TV)	John R. James	"A Collection of Eagles"
1973	Soylent Green	William R. Simonson	[98]
1973	A Delicate Balance	Harry	[98]
1973	F for Fake	Special Participant
1974	The Rockford Files (TV)	Warner Jameson	"This Case is Closed"
1975	Syndicate Sadists	Paternò
1975	Timber Tramps	Greedy sawmill mogul
1976	Freedom Is (TV)	Voice
1976	The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (TV)	Dr. Condon
1976	A Whisper in the Dark	The Professor
1976	Origins of the Mafia (TV)	The Envoy	"Gli antenati"
1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Secretary of State Arthur Renfrew	[98]
1977	Airport '77	Nicholas St. Downs III	[98]
1977	Aspen (TV)	Horton Paine
1978	The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries(TV)	Weldon Rathbone	"Arson and Old Lace"
1978	Last In, First Out	Foster Johnson
1978	Caravans	Ambassador Crandall	[98]
1978	The Perfect Crime	Sir Arthur Dundee
1978	Fantasy Island (TV)	Simon Grant	"Return to Fantasy Island"
1979	Island of the Fishmen	Prof. Ernest Marvin
1979	The Concorde Affair	Milland
1979	Guyana: Crime of the Century	Richard Gable
1979	Churchill and the Generals (TV)	General George Marshall
1979	Fantasy Island (TV)	Thomas Cummings	"The Wedding"
1979–1980	Tales of the Unexpected (TV)	Edward Lionel	"Edward the Conqueror" "Depart in Peace"
1980	The Hearse	Walter Pritchard	[98]
1980	Casino (TV)	Ed Booker
1980	Heaven's Gate	The Reverend Doctor	[98]
1980	Delusion	Ivar Langrock
1981	The Love Boat (TV)	Col. van Ryker	"The Duel" Two for Julie" "Aunt Hilly"
1981	The Survivor	Priest	(final film role)

Accolades[edit]

Joseph Cotten received a Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his work in Portrait of Jennie.

Cultural references[edit]

In the film, Me and Orson Welles (2008), Cotten is portrayed by James Tupper.^[18]

Theatre credits[edit]

Date	Title	Role	Notes
October 17, 1932 – January 1933	Absent Father	Larry	Vanderbilt Theatre, New York[19]
December 19, 1933 – January 1934	Jezebel	Dick Ashley	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York[19]
February 4 – February 1934	Loose Moments	Ralph Merkes	Vanderbilt Theatre, New York[19]
September 26 – December 5, 1936	Horse Eats Hat	Freddy	Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York[5]:334
January 8 – April 1, 1937	Faustus	2nd Scholar	Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York[5]:335–336
April 21–23, 1937	The Second Hurricane	Airplane pilot[20]:33	Henry Street Settlement, New York City[5]:337
November 11, 1937 – May 28, 1938	Caesar	Publius	Mercury Theatre, New York[5]:339–340 Moved to the larger National Theatre January 24, 1938[5]:341[21]
December 25, 1937	The Shoemaker's Holiday	Rowland Lacy	Mercury Theatre, New York Surprise preview performance immediately following Caesar[22]:332
January 1 – April 28, 1938	The Shoemaker's Holiday	Rowland Lacy	Mercury Theatre, New York Moved to the National Theatre January 26, 1938[5]:341
August 16–29, 1938	Too Much Johnson	Augustus Billings	Stony Creek Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut[23][24]:50–51, 152–153
November 2–19, 1938	Danton's Death	Barrere	Mercury Theatre, New York[25][26]
March 28, 1939 – March 30, 1940	The Philadelphia Story	C. K. Dexter Haven	Shubert Theatre, New York[19]
November 11, 1953 – August 21, 1954	Sabrina Fair	Linus Larrabee, Jr.	National Theatre, New York Moved to the Royale Theatre May 17, 1954[19]

Radio credits[edit]

Date	Title	Role	Notes
1934	The American School of the Air	Repertory cast	[5]:331
July 14 – September 22, 1935	America's Hour	Repertory cast	[27]:30
1935	Farm Tenancy		Resettlement Administrationdrama[28][29]
November 14, 1936	Columbia Workshop		"Hamlet"[30]
May 9, 1937	The Second Hurricane	Airplane pilot	One-hour broadcast on CBS Radio[20]:34
September 5, 1938	The Mercury Theatre on the Air	Dr. Bull	"The Man Who Was Thursday"[5]:345[31]:50
October 9, 1938	The Mercury Theatre on the Air		"Hell on Ice"[5]:346[32]
October 16, 1938	The Mercury Theatre on the Air	Genesis	"Seventeen"[5]:346[31]:52
December 3, 1938	The Campbell Playhouse	Fred	"A Christmas Carol"[5]:348[31]:53[33][34]
January 6, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse		"Counsellor-at-Law"[5]:348[33][34]
January 13, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse	Fletcher Christian	"Mutiny on the Bounty"[5]:349[33][34]
January 20, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse		"The Chicken Wagon Family"[5]:349
January 27, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse	Riley	"I Lost My Girlish Laughter"[31]:53[33][34]
September 17, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse		"Ah, Wilderness!"[5]:354[33][34]
October 22, 1939	The Campbell Playhouse	The Cashier	"Liliom"[31]:58[33][34]
1939–40	The Career of Alice Blair	Male lead	[27]:138–139[35]
February 11, 1940	The Campbell Playhouse		"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"[31]:61[33][34]
September 22, 1941	Lux Radio Theatre	Michael Fitzpatrick	"Lydia"[36]
October 6, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367
October 13, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367[37]
October 20, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367
November 10, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:367
December 1, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
December 7, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
December 22, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
December 29, 1941	Orson Welles Show		[5]:368
March 22, 1942	The Silver Theatre	Jim Emerson	"Only Yesterday"[38]
November 23, 1942	Ceiling Unlimited		"The Navigator"[5]:375
December 21, 1942	Ceiling Unlimited		"Gremlins"[5]:374[39][40]
December 28, 1942	Ceiling Unlimited		"Pan American Airlines"[40]
January 17, 1943	Hello Americans		"Feed the World"[5]:376[41]
February 1, 1943	Cavalcade of America		"To the Shores of Tripoli"[42][43]
May 24, 1943	The Screen Guild Theater	Uncle Charlie	"Shadow of a Doubt"[44][45]
June 28, 1943	Lux Radio Theatre		"The Great Man's Lady"[36]
August 8, 1943 – April 30, 1944	America — Ceiling Unlimited	Host	Weekly half-hour variety series[40][46][47]
December 6, 1943	The Screen Guild Theater	Jim Emerson	"Only Yesterday"[44][45]
March 23, 1944	Suspense		"Sneak Preview"[48][49][50]
May 8, 1944	Lux Radio Theatre	Roger Adams	"Penny Serenade"[36]
June 5, 1944	Cavalcade of America		"Treason"[42][43]
September 14, 1944	Suspense		"You'll Never See Me Again"[48][50]
November 6, 1944	Democratic National Committee Program		Election-eve political broadcast[51][52]
November 13, 1944	The Screen Guild Theater	Johnny Case	"Holiday"[44][45]
November 26, 1944	The Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre		"Clarence"[53]
February 1, 1945	Suspense		"The Most Dangerous Game"[48][50]
February 6, 1945	A Date with Judy	Guest	"The Strange Case of Joseph Cotten"[54]
April 30, 1945	The Screen Guild Theater	Alessandro	"Ramona"[44][45]
June 4, 1945	Lux Radio Theatre	Holger Brandt	"Intermezzo"[36]
June 15, 1945	Weapon for Tomorrow		"Freedom of Information"[55]
September 18, 1945	Theater of Romance	Nathan Hale	"One Life to Lose"[56]
September 20, 1945	The Birdseye Open House	Guest	[57]
September 27, 1945	Suspense		"The Earth Is Made of Glass"[48][50]
October 11, 1945	Suspense		"Beyond Good and Evil"[48][50]
November 26, 1945	The Screen Guild Theater	Richard Kurt	"Biography of a Bachelor Girl"[44][45]
December 24, 1945	Lux Radio Theatre	Zachary Morgan	"I'll Be Seeing You"[36]
January 17, 1946	Suspense		"The Pasteboard Box"[48][50]
February 10, 1946	The Radio Reader's Digest		"Ultimate Security"[58]
April 22, 1946	Lux Radio Theatre	Alan Quinton	"Love Letters"[36]
May 2, 1946	Suspense		"Crime Without Passion"[48][50]
July 24, 1946	Academy Award Theatre		"Foreign Correspondent"[59][60]
September 11, 1946	Academy Award Theatre		"Shadow of a Doubt"[59][60]
September 24, 1946	The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players	Lou Gehrig	"The Pride of the Yankees"[61]
October 1, 1946	The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players	Max de Winter	"Rebecca"[61]
November 4, 1946	Lux Radio Theatre		"I've Always Loved You"[36][62]
December 5, 1946	The Radio Reader's Digest		"The Hard-Boiled Reporter and the Miracle"[58]
December 16, 1946	The Screen Guild Theater	Michael	"This Love of Ours"[44][45][63]
December 19, 1946	Suspense		"The Thing in the Window"[48][50]
December 25, 1946	The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players		"All Through the House"[61]
January 27, 1947	The Screen Guild Theater		"Swell Guy"[44]
March 5, 1947	The Eagle's Brood		Documentary on juvenile delinquency[64][65]
May 15, 1947	The Radio Reader's Digest		"Halfway to Reno"[58]
May 19, 1947	Cavalcade of America		"Witness by Moonlight"[42][43]
September 15, 1947	Lux Radio Theatre	Nicholas	"The Seventh Veil"[36]
October 26, 1947	Hollywood Fights Back		[66]
January 5, 1948	Lux Radio Theatre	Glenn Morley	"The Farmer's Daughter"[36][67]
January 26, 1948	Lux Radio Theatre	Devlin	"Notorious"[36][67]
February 12, 1948	The Radio Reader's Digest		"The Baron of Arizona"[58]
March 8, 1948	Lux Radio Theatre	John Ballantyne	"Spellbound"[36][67]
April 11, 1948	The Eternal Light		"The Man Who Remembered Lincoln"[68]
June 21, 1948	The Screen Guild Theater	Uncle Charlie	"Shadow of a Doubt"[45][69]
May 9, 1949	Lux Radio Theatre	Anthony Keane	"The Paradine Case"[36]
May 15, 1949	The Prudential Family Hour of Stars		"Breakdown"[70]
June 30, 1949	Suspense		"The Day I Died"[48][50]
October 24, 1946	Screen Directors Playhouse	Alan Quinton	"Love Letters"[71]
October 31, 1949	Lux Radio Theatre	Eben Adams	"Portrait of Jennie"[36]
March 10, 1950	Screen Directors Playhouse	Eben Adams	"Portrait of Jennie"[71]
March 15, 1950	Family Theater		"Germelshausen"[72]
March 30, 1950	Suspense		"Blood Sacrifice"[48][50]
June 11, 1950	Guest Star		"Portrait of a Small Gentleman"[73]
September 28, 1950	Suspense		"Fly by Night"[48][50]
October 9, 1950	Hollywood Star Playhouse		"Of Night and the River"[74][75]
November 30, 1950	Screen Directors Playhouse		"Mrs. Mike"[71]
January 2, 1951	Cavalcade of America		"An American from France"[42][43]
January 7, 1951	Theatre Guild on the Air	Holly Martins	"The Third Man"[76][77]
January 25, 1951	Screen Directors Playhouse		"Spellbound"[71]
February 15, 1951	Hallmark Playhouse		"A Man for All Ages"[78]
April 9, 1951	Lux Radio Theatre	Holly Martins	"The Third Man"[36][79]
September 30, 1951	Theatre Guild on the Air		"Main Street"[80]
October 2, 1951	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"Angel Street"[81]
October 18, 1951	Hallmark Playhouse		"Cashel Byron's Profession"[78]
November 5, 1951	Suspense		"The Trials of Thomas Shaw"[82]
January 24, 1952	Stars in the Air		"Enchantment"[83]
January 28, 1952	Suspense		"Carnival"[48][50]
January 31, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"Westward Ho"[78]
March 6, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"Man Without a Home"[78]
March 10, 1952	Suspense		"A Watery Grave"[48][50][84]
March 16, 1952	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"In a Lonely Place"[81][84][85]
March 27, 1952	The Screen Guild Theater		"Night Must Fall"[86]
September 7, 1952	Hollywood Star Playhouse		"The Tenth Planet"[74][75]
September 14, 1952	Theatre Guild On the Air		"The Wisteria Tree"[76]
October 12, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"Young Mr. Disraeli"[78]
December 22, 1952	Suspense		"Arctic Rescue"[48][50][87]
December 28, 1952	Hallmark Playhouse		"A Man Called Peter"[78][88]
January 11, 1953	Theatre Guild On the Air		"Jane"[76]
January 14, 1953	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"Hold Back the Dawn"[81][89]
January 18, 1953	Theatre Guild on the Air		"Trial by Forgery"[80][89]
January 26, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre	David Lawrence	"September Affair"[36]
March 1, 1953	The Bakers' Theater of Stars		"The Mango Tree"[90][91]
March 30, 1953	Suspense		"Tom Dooley"[48][50]
June 16, 1953	The Martin and Lewis Show	Guest	[92]
July 6, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre	Jim Warlock	"Cynara"[36][93]
August 3, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre		"Romance to a Degree"[36]
August 26, 1953	Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway		"Love Letters"[81]
September 14, 1953	Lux Radio Theatre	Jim Osborne	"The Steel Trap"[36]
October 14, 1953	Radio Playhouse	Narrator	"Routine Assignment"[94]
October 24, 1953	The Grand Alliance		United Nations Day broadcast[95]
May 15, 1954	Salute to Eugene O'Neill	Narrator	All-star benefit for cerebral palsy[96]
December 15, 1957	Suspense		"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"[48][50]
August 2, 1959	Suspense		"Red Cloud Mesa"[48][50]

Film and television credits[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1938	Too Much Johnson	Augustus Billings	[97]
1940	Citizen Kane trailer	Himself, Jedediah "Jed" Leland	Short[5]:360
1941	Citizen Kane	Jed Leland / Screening Room Reporter	[98]
1941	Lydia	Michael Fitzpatrick	[98]
1942	The Magnificent Ambersons	Eugene Morgan	[98]
1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Uncle Charles Oakley	[98]
1943	Journey into Fear	Howard Graham	Screenplay (with uncredited Orson Welles)[98]
1943	Hers to Hold	Bill Morley	[98]
1944	Gaslight	Brian Cameron	[98]
1944	Since You Went Away	Lieutenant Tony Willett	[98]
1945	I'll Be Seeing You	Zachary Morgan	[98]
1945	Love Letters	Alan Quinton	[98]
1946	Duel in the Sun	Jesse McCanles	[98]
1947	The Farmer's Daughter	Glenn Morley	[98]
1948	Portrait of Jennie	Eben Adams	Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor[98]
1949	The Third Man	Holly Martins	[98]
1949	Under Capricorn	Sam Flusky	[98]
1949	Beyond the Forest	Dr. Lewis Moline	[98]
1950	September Affair	David Lawrence	[98]
1950	Two Flags West	Col. Clay Tucker	[98]
1950	Walk Softly, Stranger	Chris Hale	Shot in 1948[98]
1951	Half Angel	John Raymond, Jr.	[98]
1951	Peking Express	Michael Bachlin	[98]
1951	The Man with a Cloak	Dupin	[98]
1951	Othello	Venetian senator	Uncredited [98]
1952	The Wild Heart	Narrator	[98]
1952	Untamed Frontier	Kirk Denbow	[98]
1952	The Steel Trap	James Osborne	[98]
1953	Niagara	George Loomis	[98]
1953	A Blueprint for Murder	Whitney Cameron	[98]
1954	Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV)	Himself	Broadcast on all four U.S. TV networks
1954	Producers' Showcase (TV)	Grant Matthews	"State of the Union"
1954	General Electric Theater (TV)	Hanley	"The High Green Wall"
1955	Special Delivery	John Adams	[98]
1955	The Best of Broadway (TV)	Dan McCorn	"Broadway"
1955	Celebrity Playhouse (TV)	Marshal Fenton Lockhart	"Showdown at San Pablo"
1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)	William Callew	"Breakdown"
1955–1956	Star Stage (TV)	Narrator Alexander Holmes	"The Man in the Black Robe" "The U.S. vs. Alexander Holmes"
1956	The Bottom of the Bottle	P.M. Martin	[98]
1956	The Ford Television Theatre (TV)	John Ashburn	"Man Without a Fear"
1956	The Killer Is Loose	Detective Sam Wagner	[98]
1956	General Electric Theater (TV)	Captain Private Harris	"H.M.S. Marlborough Will Enter Port" "The Enemies"
1956–1959	The Joseph Cotten Show (TV)	Various roles
1957	The Halliday Brand	Daniel Halliday	[98]
1957	Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theater (TV)	Bruce Malone	"Contact"
1957	Telephone Time (TV)	Lt. Cmdr. Joseph P. Fyffe	"The Man the Navy Couldn't Sink"
1957	Playhouse 90 (TV)	Robert Rainey	"The Edge of Innocence"
1957	The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (TV)
1957	Schlitz Playhouse (TV)		"Neighbors"
1958	Zane Grey Theatre (TV)	Ben Harper	"Man Unforgiving"
1958	Suspicion (TV)	Gregg Carey	"The Eye of Truth"
1958	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)	Tony Gould	"Together"
1958	Touch of Evil	Coroner	Uncredited[98]
1958	From the Earth to the Moon	Victor Barbicane	[98]
1959	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV)	Black McSween	"The Day the Town Stood Up"
1959	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)	Courtney Masterson	"Dead Weight"
1960	The Angel Wore Red	Hawthorne	[98]
1960	The DuPont Show with June Allyson(TV)	Dick Burlingame Charles Lawrence	"The Blue Goose" "Dark Fear"
1960	Checkmate (TV)	Dr. George Mallinson	"Face in the Window"
1961	The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV)	Mac McClay	"The Hitch-Hiker"
1961	The Last Sunset	John Breckenridge	[98]
1961	Bus Stop (TV)	Professor Wheelright	"Cherie"
1961	Theatre '62 (TV)	Alex Sebastian	"Notorious"
1961	Wagon Train (TV)	Captain Dan Brady	"The Captain Dan Brady Story"
1962	Dr. Kildare (TV)	Charles Ladovan	"The Administrator"
1962	Saints and Sinners (TV)	Preston Cooper	"The Man on the Rim"
1961	Wagon Train (TV)	John Augustus	"The John Augustus Story"
1963	The Great Adventure (TV)	Captain Meehan	"The Death of Sitting Bull" "The Massacre at Wounded Knee"
1963	77 Sunset Strip (TV)	Arnold Buhler	"By His Own Verdict"
1963–1964	Hollywood and the Stars (TV)	Narrator
1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Dr. Drew Bayliss	[98]
1965	The Great Sioux Massacre	Major Reno	[98]
1965	The Money Trap	Dr. Horace Van Tilden	[98]
1965	The Tramplers	Temple Cordeen	[98]
1966	The Oscar	Kenneth H. Regan	[98]
1966	The Hellbenders	Col. Jonas	[98]
1967	Brighty of the Grand Canyon	Jim Owen	[98]
1967	Cimarron Strip (TV)	Nathan Tio	"The Search"
1967	Jack of Diamonds	Ace of Diamonds	[98]
1967	Some May Live	Col. Woodward
1968	Alexander the Great (TV)	Antigonus
1968	Days of Fire	Destil
1968	Petulia	Mr. Danner	[98]
1968	Ironside (TV)	Dr. Benjamin Stern	"Split Second to an Epitaph"
1968	It Takes a Thief (TV)	Col. Heinrich	"Hans Across the Border"[99]
1968	Journey to the Unknown (TV)		"Do Me a Favour and Kill Me" (UK)[100]
1968	White Comanche	Sheriff Logan
1969	Latitude Zero	Capt. Craig McKenzie	[98]
1969	The Lonely Profession (TV)	Martin Bannister
1969	Keene
1969–1970	It Takes a Thief (TV)	Mr. Jack	"To Lure a Man" "To Sing a Song of Murder" "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"[101]
1970	Cutter's Trail (TV)	General Spalding
1970	The Name of the Game (TV)	Henry Worthington Rayner	"The King of Denmark"
1970	The Grasshopper	Richard Morgan	[98]
1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Henry L. Stimson	[98]
1970	The Virginian (TV)	Judge Will McMasters Judge Hobbs	"A Time of Terror" "Gun Quest"
1971	Assault on the Wayne (TV)	Admiral
1971	Do You Take This Stranger? (TV)	Dr. Robert Carson
1971	City Beneath the Sea (TV)	Dr. Ziegler
1971	NET Playhouse (TV)	Narrator	"Trail of Tears"
1971	The Abominable Dr. Phibes	Dr. Vesalius	[98]
1971	Lady Frankenstein	Dr. Frankenstein
1972	The Screaming Woman (TV)	George Tresvant
1972	Doomsday Voyage	Captain Jason	[98]
1972	Baron Blood	Baron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
1972	The Scientific Cardplayer	George
1973	The Devil's Daughter (TV)	Judge Weatherby
1973	The Streets of San Francisco (TV)	John R. James	"A Collection of Eagles"
1973	Soylent Green	William R. Simonson	[98]
1973	A Delicate Balance	Harry	[98]
1973	F for Fake	Special Participant
1974	The Rockford Files (TV)	Warner Jameson	"This Case is Closed"
1975	Syndicate Sadists	Paternò
1975	Timber Tramps	Greedy sawmill mogul
1976	Freedom Is (TV)	Voice
1976	The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (TV)	Dr. Condon
1976	A Whisper in the Dark	The Professor
1976	Origins of the Mafia (TV)	The Envoy	"Gli antenati"
1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Secretary of State Arthur Renfrew	[98]
1977	Airport '77	Nicholas St. Downs III	[98]
1977	Aspen (TV)	Horton Paine
1978	The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries(TV)	Weldon Rathbone	"Arson and Old Lace"
1978	Last In, First Out	Foster Johnson
1978	Caravans	Ambassador Crandall	[98]
1978	The Perfect Crime	Sir Arthur Dundee
1978	Fantasy Island (TV)	Simon Grant	"Return to Fantasy Island"
1979	Island of the Fishmen	Prof. Ernest Marvin
1979	The Concorde Affair	Milland
1979	Guyana: Crime of the Century	Richard Gable
1979	Churchill and the Generals (TV)	General George Marshall
1979	Fantasy Island (TV)	Thomas Cummings	"The Wedding"
1979–1980	Tales of the Unexpected (TV)	Edward Lionel	"Edward the Conqueror" "Depart in Peace"
1980	The Hearse	Walter Pritchard	[98]
1980	Casino (TV)	Ed Booker
1980	Heaven's Gate	The Reverend Doctor	[98]
1980	Delusion	Ivar Langrock
1981	The Love Boat (TV)	Col. van Ryker	"The Duel" Two for Julie" "Aunt Hilly"
1981	The Survivor	Priest	(final film role)

• Ethel Barrymore as Miss Spinney

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ Obituary Variety, June 24, 1959.
2. Jump up^ Ethel Barrymore - North American Theatre Online
3. Jump up^ Famous Actors and Actresses On The American StageVol.1 A-J by William C. Young c. 1975 (Ethel Barrymore entry pages56-60)
4. Jump up^ DIGGING THE PAST: My Brother's Keeper, A Mayor and His Murderous Sibling; March 11, 2013 Retrieved January 13, 2017
5. Jump up^ House of Barrymore, The by Margot Peters c.1990] Retrieved April 6, 2016
6. Jump up^ Memories, Barrymore, Ethel c.1955] Retrieved April 6, 2016
7. Jump up^ "Ethel Barrymore|", Internet Broadway Database, January 20, 2016
8. Jump up^ Frohman, Daniel, & Isaac F. Marcosson, “The Life of Charles Frohman,” Cosmopolitan, Volume 61, 1916, p. 370.
9. Jump up^ Hardcover Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines with a likeness of Ethel Barrymore
10. Jump up^ Peters, Margot, The House of Barrymore (Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 95, 97; Barrymore, Ethel, Memories, An Autobiography (Harper, 1955), p. 148.
11. Jump up^ Catalog of Holdings, The American Film Institute Collection and the United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, page 10 published by The American Film Institute c. 1978; for The Awakening of Helena Ritchie (1916)
12. Jump up^ The Call of Her People. silentera.com
13. Jump up^ Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition, Volume 1. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-5149-4. P. 56.
14. Jump up^ "WHMA". The Anniston Sun. February 11, 1945. p. 6. Retrieved April 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. 
15. Jump up^ Wenden, D.J. (1993). "Churchill, Radio, and Cinema". In Blake, Robert B.; Louis, William Roger. Churchill. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 236. ISBN 0-19-820626-7.
16. Jump up^ Great Stars of the American Stage by Daniel Blum c.1952 Profile #56
17. Jump up^ Memories: An Autobiography by Ethel Barrymore. (Harper and Brothers, 1955, page 162.)
18. Jump up^ "Ethel Barrymore to Sue for Divorce". New York Times. July 8, 1911.
19. Jump up^ "Ethel Barrymore Is Dead at 79; One of Stage's 'Royal Family'". The New York Times, June 19, 1959.
20. Jump up^ "Theatre Hall of Fame members". Retrieved February 6,2014.^{[permanent dead link]}
21. Jump up^ "Hollywood Walk of Fame - Ethel Barrymore". walkoffame.com. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved November 14, 2017.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ethel Barrymore.

• Ethel Barrymore at the Internet Broadway Database 
• Ethel Barrymore on IMDb
• allmovie.com
• Queen Ethel Comes This Way Again(Wayback Machine)
• Ethel Barrymore photos and literature NYP Library
• Ethel Barrymore photo gallery - Fanpix
• with brother Lionel on his last film, Main Street to Broadway 1953
• Ethel Barrymore guest appearance on Whats My Line October 12, 1952 begins at 16:27
• Hattie Williams, Ethel and John Barrymore bow to the audience after a performance of A Slice of Life (1912) (*if pic doesn't load click on the -->worthpoint link and then return to cloud link and click)
• Ethel Barrymore: Broadway Photographs (Univ. of South Carolina)
• Ethel Barrymore - Aveleyman
• Ethel Barrymore at Findagrave.com

• Lillian Gish as Mother Mary of Mercy

Books[edit]

Autobiographical

• The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me (with Ann Pinchot) (Prentice-Hall, 1969)
• Dorothy and Lillian Gish (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973)
• An Actor's Life For Me (with Selma G. Lanes) (Viking Penguin, 1987)
• Lillian Gish: the Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me, by Gish co-authored with Ann Pinchot; ISBN 0-491-00103-7, W.H. Allen 1969, and ISBN 0-916515-40-0 Mercury House, 1988.

Biographical and topical

• Abel, Richard, et al. Flickers of desire: movie stars of the 1910s (Rutgers University Press, 2011).
• Affron, Charles. Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis (E.P. Dutton, 1977)
• Affron, Charles. Lillian Gish Her Legend, Her Life (University of California Press, 2002) revised paperback edition
• Berke, Annie, "'Never Let the Camera Catch Me Acting': Lillian Gish as Actress, Star, and Theorist", Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 36 (June 2016), 175–89.
• Bogdanovich, Peter. A Moment with Miss Gish (Santa Teresa Press, 1995).
• Oderman, Stuart. Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen (McFarland, 2000).

Documentaries about Gish[edit]

• Jeanne Moreau's 1983 television documentary Lillian Gish
• Terry Sanders' 1988 documentary Lillian Gish: An Actor's Life for Me

See also[edit]

• Biography portal
• Silent film portal
• Film portal

• List of actors with Academy Award nominations
• Women's cinema

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ Although there are unsupported claims that the Gish sisters were born with the surname "de Guiche", in fact their surname at birth was "Gish". According to Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life (2001), a biography by Charles Affron: "The Gish name was initially the source of some mystification. In 1922, at the time of the opening of Orphans of the Storm, Lillian reported that the Gish family was of French origin, descending from the Duke de Guiche ... [S]uch press-agentry falsification was common."
2. Jump up^ Lillian Gish - North American Theatre Online
3. Jump up^ "American Film Institute". www.afi.com.
4. Jump up^ Annie Berke, “‘Never Let the Camera Catch Me Acting’: Lillian Gish as Actress, Star, and Theorist,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 36 (June 2016), 175–89.
5. Jump up^ Dorothy and Lillian Gish (1973) p12
6. Jump up^ "Lillian Gish Biography". Bioandlyrics.com. February 27, 1993. Archived from the original on February 3, 2009. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
7. ^ Jump up to:^a b Charles Affron (March 12, 2002). Lillian Gish: her legend, her life. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23434-5.
8. Jump up^ Oderman, Stuart (2000). Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen. McFarland & Co. ISBN 9780786406449.
9. Jump up^ Charles Affron (March 12, 2002). Lillian Gish: her legend, her life. University of California Press. pp. 19–20. ISBN 978-0-520-23434-5.
10. Jump up^ Charles Affron (March 12, 2002). Lillian Gish: her legend, her life. University of California Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-520-23434-5.
11. Jump up^ Lambert, Gavin (1976) [1973]. GWTW: The Making of Gone With the Wind (mass market paperback ed.). New York: Bantam Books. p. 53.
12. Jump up^ Brownlow, Kevin; Gill, David (1980). Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (video). Thames Video Production.
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Lillian Gish filmography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These are the films of Lillian Gish.

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Silent: 1912 – 1913 – 1914 – 1915 – 1916 – 1917 – 1918 – 1919 – 1920s
Post Silent: 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – References

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Silent[edit]

1912[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1912	An Unseen Enemy	The Sister
	Two Daughters of Eve	In Theatre Crowd
	So Near, yet So Far	A Friend
	In the Aisles of the Wild	The Young Daughter
	The One She Loved
	The Painted Lady	Belle at Ice Cream Festival	Uncredited
	The Musketeers of Pig Alley	The Little Lady
	Gold and Glitter	The Young Woman
	My Baby
	The Informer	Undetermined Secondary Role
	Brutality	At Theatre
	The New York Hat	Customer in Shop / Outside Church
	The Burglar's Dilemma	Birthday Wellwisher
	A Cry for Help	The Maid

1913[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1913	Oil and Water	In First Audience	Uncredited
	The Unwelcome Guest	At Auction	Uncredited
	A Misunderstood Boy	The Daughter
	The Left-Handed Man	The Old Soldier's Daughter
	The Lady and the Mouse	The First Sister WomanThe
	The House of Darkness	The Nurse
	Just Gold	The Sweetheart
	A Timely Interception	The Farmer's Daughter
	The Mothering Heart	The Young Wife
	An Indian's Loyalty	The Ranchero's Daughter
	During the Round-Up	The Ranchero's Daughter
	A Woman in the Ultimate	Verda
	A Modest Hero	The Wife
	So Runs the Way	Fred's Wife
	Madonna of the Storm	The Mother
	The Battle at Elderbush Gulch	Melissa Harlow
	The Conscience of Hassan Bey	The Rugmaker's Daughter

1914[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1914	A Duel For Love
	The Green-Eyed Devil	Mary Miller
	Judith of Bethulia	The Young Mother
	The Battle of the Sexes	Jane Andrews
	The Hunchback	The Orphan - as an Adult
	The Quicksands
	Home, Sweet Home	Payne's Sweetheart
	Lord Chumley	Eleanor Butterworth
	The Rebellion of Kitty Belle	Kitty Belle
	The Angel of Contention	Nettie - the Angel
	Man's Enemy	Grace Lisle
	The Tear That Burned	Anita - the Truant
	The Folly of Anne	Anne
	The Sisters	May

1915[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1915	The Birth of a Nation	Elsie
	The Lost House	Dosia Dale
	Enoch Arden	Annie Lee
	Captain Macklin	Beatrice
	The Lily and the Rose	Mary Randolph

1916[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1916	Pathways of Life
	Daphne and the Pirate	Daphne La Tour
	Sold for Marriage	Marfa
	An Innocent Magdalene	Dorothy Raleigh
	Intolerance	The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle / Eternal Mother
	Diane of the Follies	Diane
	The Children Pay	Millicent
	The House Built Upon Sand	Evelyn Dare

1917[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1917	Souls Triumphant	Lillian Vale

1918[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1918	Hearts of the World	Marie Stephenson
	The Great Love	Susie Broadplains
	Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
	The Greatest Thing in Life	Jeannette Peret

1919[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1919	A Romance of Happy Valley	Jennie Timberlake
	Broken Blossoms	Lucy Barrows
	True Heart Susie	True Heart Susie
	The Greatest Question	Nellie Jarvis

1920s[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1920	Remodeling Her Husband	N/A	Director only
	Way Down East	Anna Moore
1921	Orphans of the Storm	Henriette Girard
1923	The White Sister	Angela Chiaromonte
1924	Romola	Romola
1925	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Chariot Race Spectator	Uncredited Extra
1926	La Bohème	Mimi
	The Scarlet Letter	Hester Prynne
1927	Annie Laurie	Annie Laurie
	The Enemy	Pauli Arndt
1928	The Wind	Letty

Post Silent[edit]

1930s[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1930	One Romantic Night (a.k.a. The Swan)	Princess Alexandra
1933	His Double Life	Alice Chalice

1940s[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1942	Commandos Strike at Dawn	Mrs. Bergesen
1943	Top Man (a.k.a. Man of The Family)	Beth Warren
1946	Miss Susie Slagle's	Miss Susie Slagle
	Duel in the Sun	Laura Belle	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1948	Portrait of Jennie	Mother Mary of Mercy
1949	Outward Bound	Mrs. Midget	TV
	The Late Christopher Bean	Sister Christina	TV

1950s[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1951	Celanese Theatre	Sister Christina	(episode:The Joyous Season)
	Robert Montgomery Presents		(episode:Ladies in Retirement)
1952	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Grandma Moses	(episode:The Autobiography of Grandma Moses)
1953	The Trip to Bountiful	Carrie Watts
1954	Robert Montgomery Presents		(episode:The Quality of Mercy)
	The Campbell Playhouse	Miss Harrington	(episode:The Corner Druggist)
1955	The Cobweb	Victoria Inch
	The Night of the Hunter	Rachel Cooper
	Kraft Television Theatre		(episode: I, Mrs. Bibb)
	Playwrights '56	Mrs. Compson	(episode:The Sound and the Fury)
1956	Ford Star Jubilee	Mary Todd Lincoln	(episode:The Day Lincoln Was Shot)
	The Alcoa Hour	Esther Crampton	(episode:Morning's At Seven)
1958	Orders to Kill	Mrs. Summers

1960s[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1960	The Grass Harp	Dolly Talbo	TV
	The Unforgiven	Mattilda Zachary
1962	The Defenders	Laura Clarendon	(episode:Grandma TNT)
1963	Mr. Novak	MissMaude Phipps	(episode:"Hello, Miss Phipps")
1964	The Defenders	Mrs. Cooper	(episode:Stowaway)
	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Bessie Carnby	(episode: "Body in the Barn")
1966	Follow Me, Boys!	Hetty Seibert
1967	Warning Shot	Alice Willows
	The Comedians	Mrs. Smith
	The Comedians in Africa	Mrs. Smith
1969	Arsenic and Old Lace	Martha Brewster	TV movie

1970s[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1976	Twin Detectives	Billy Jo Haskins	TV movie
1978	Sparrow	Widow	TV movie
	A Wedding	Nettie Sloan

1980s[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Note
1981	The Love Boat	Mrs. Williams	(episode:Th Successor)
1983	Hobson's Choice	Miss Molly Winkle	TV movie
	Hambone and Hillie	Hillie Radcliffe
1985	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mrs. Loftus	TV
1986	Sweet Liberty	Cecelia Burgess
1987	The Whales of August	Sarah Webber	Last appearance on screen

• Cecil Kellaway as Matthews
• David Wayne as Gus O'Toole
• Albert Sharpe as Moore
• Henry Hull as Eke
• Florence Bates as Mrs. Jekes
• Clem Bevans as Capt. Cobb
• Nancy Davis as Teenager in Art Gallery
• Anne Francis as Teenager in Art Gallery
• Brian Keith as Ice-Skating Extra
• Nancy Olson as Teenager in Art Gallery
• Robert Dudley as Another Old Mariner
• Maude Simmons as Clara Morgan

Portrait of Jennie
Movie poster
Directed by	William Dieterle
Produced by	David O. Selznick David Hempstead
Screenplay by	Paul Osborn Peter Berneis Leonardo Bercovici(adaptation)
Based on	Portrait of Jennie 1940 novel by Robert Nathan[1]
Starring	Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Ethel Barrymore
Narrated by	Joseph Cotten
Music by	Claude Debussy Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography	Joseph H. August
Edited by	William Morgan
Production company	Vanguard Films
Distributed by	Selznick Releasing Organization
Release date	December 25, 1948
Running time	86 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4,041,000[2]
Box office	$1,510,000 (rentals)[2]

Contents

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• 1Plot
• 2Cast
• 3Production
• 4Reception
• 5Adaptations
• 6See also
• 7References
• 8External links

Plot[edit]

In 1934, impoverished painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) meets a fey little girl named Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones) in Central Park, New York City. She is wearing old-fashioned clothing. He makes a sketch of her from memory which involves him with art dealer Miss Spinney (Ethel Barrymore), who sees potential in him. This inspires him to paint a portrait of Jennie.

Eben encounters Jennie at intermittent intervals. Strangely, she appears to be growing up much more rapidly than is possible. He soon falls in love with her but is puzzled by the fact that she seems to be experiencing events that he discovers took place many years previously as if they had just happened. Eventually he learns the truth about Jennie and though inevitable tragedy ensues, she continues to be an inspiration to Eben's life and art, and his career makes a remarkable upturn, commencing with his portrait of Jennie.