Portrait of Jennie

…critical and commercial success with Portrait of Jennie (1948). The love story featured Jones and Cotten, and its supernatural twist was borrowed by subsequent films. In 1949 Dieterle directed The Accused, an entertaining film noir about a college professor (Loretta Young) on the run from a homicide detective (Wendell Corey)…

…Duel in the Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and A Farewell to Arms (1957), all of which starred actress Jennifer Jones, whom Selznick married in 1949. A Farewell to Arms was the last film he produced.

…romantic lead in William Dieterle’s Portrait of Jennie (1948), and as a naive writer in Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949). Cotten’s other memorable roles included a shell-shocked veteran in I’ll Be Seeing You (1944), a serious Scotland Yard detective in Gaslight (1944), and the steady friend of a soldier’s…