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Auction History Result m193 PORTRAIT OF JENNIE three-sheet movie poster '48 Jennifer Jones, Cotten Date Sold 10/11/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) Portrait of Jennie (released in some countries as "Jennie"), the 1949 William Dieterle romantic fantasy melodrama ("If you love... Or have ever loved.. Here perhaps is the most tender, and yet terrifying, love story ever told"; "The screen's most romantic team!"; "Color Sequence by Technicolor"; "From the book by Robert Nathan"; "Produced by David O. Selznick"; "Featuring the music of Debussy"; about a disillusioned artist who meets a young girl and she disappears and he meets her again, but she is now older, and she keeps aging on each meeting, and he paints her portrait, and then discovers that she was a girl who had died many years previous in a hurricane; winner of the Best Special Effects Academy Award for this film) starring Jennifer Jones (in the title role as Jennie Appleton), Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, and David Wayne. Note that this film premiered on December 25th in 1948 but didn't have a wide release until April in 1949. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that the collector who owned this three-sheet (and five others that we are selling as separate items this week on eBay) taped or glued the two sections of the poster together, and put tape on several of the seams (for reinforcement) and then rolled the poster and stored it in a tube. He would take one of the posters and display it on his wall, and then occasionally take that one down, replace it in the tube, and display a different one (this method of displaying the posters was certainly inexpensive, and saved him the cost of a frame!). The downside to this is that the posters can no longer be folded, and in some cases the tape (or glue) has bled through to the front to some degree. For each of these six posters, we have described the amount of tape (or glue) on the reverse, and the effect it has had on the front. In all six cases, it would be an easy matter for any talented restorer to remove the tape (and/or glue) from the back and mount the poster on linen. After proper linenbacking and restoration of any defects, the poster would look wonderful! But please do not bid on this poster (or the other five similar three-sheets) unless you have read the above and understand it. Of course, we will need to send this poster in a tube, as it cannot be folded. Condition: very good. The two sections of the poster were taped together, first with a line of clear tape across the back of the poster, then a line of clear tape across the front of the poster, and finally with wide yellow masking tape over the back seam. Many of the crossfolds have plastic tape on the reverse, and if there was tiny paper loss, the collector put a small piece of white paper over the paper loss before putting the tape on it, so that the white paper shows from the front, and not the tape. There is some plastic tape down the top of the back 12" of both right vertical foldlines and a few other pieces of plastic tape on the back of some other foldlines. A few of the pieces of tape on the back have yellowed and have slightly bled through to the back. The clear tape across the seam of the front of the poster running through the top of the letters of the title has darkened somewhat, and the clear tape running through the middle of the letters from the back has bled through somewhat. Any talented restorer could surely remove the tape from the back (and the single line of tape on the front through the top of the title) and after linenbacking and restoration, the poster would look great, and it would probably require some paint restoration across the title area, but little anywhere else. Learn More about condition grades 
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