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stars Did man really walk on the Moon or was it the ultimate camera trick, asks David Milne? In the early hours of May 16, 1990, after a week spent watching old
a walk in the moon I. [From Luther Wright (www.videoflicks.com)]: Portrait of Jennie is one of the most hauntingly romantic films I can recall ever watching. The
Moon Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the Moon. The United States and more over the world, reveres astronauts
gave the astronauts permission to go for the extra-vehicular activity, that is, for the walk on the Moon, far earlier than anticipated, 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time."
his deeper senses are stirred and it turns into something more than just an appreciation of a moon light walk. Where he becomes philosophical and begins to search
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I. [From Luther Wright (www.videoflicks.com)]:
Portrait of Jennie is one of the most hauntingly romantic films I can recall ever watching. The stunning black & white cinematography often emulates the surface of the artist's canvas, while the music score weaves a tender, other-worldly tapestry of its own. Jennifer Jones is perfectly cast as the lovely, yet strangely sad and from-another-time Jennie Appleton. Joseph Cotten draws the viewer's sympathy as the struggling, starving artist, Eben Adams. Ethel Barrymore's portrayal of Adams' friend and mentor, Miss Spinney, adds strength to the film, and the first lady of the American film, Lillian Gish, offers Adams gentle and comforting grace as Sister Mary of Mercy. The film's final, stunning touch is the framed portrait of Jennie, revealed in gorgeous, glorious Technicolor, over which Jennie's voice is heard to repeat words spoken earlier to Eben Adams.... "Oh! Eben! Is it really me? I think some day it will hang in a great museum, and that it will make you famous!" This movie is a must-see for anyone who has felt the emptiness and lonliness of being a star-crossed lover. "From world's end to world's end there is only one true love, one you must search for until you find them..."
II. [From Brian Koller (http://briankoller.epinions.com)]:
Jennifer Jones became a star in 1943, with her leading role in The Song of Bernadette. Her performance captured the attention of film mogul David O. Selznick. He would eventually produce seven films starring the lovely, ethereal Jones. The Portrait of Jennie was the last film they would make together before their marriage in 1949. Joseph Cotten plays Eben, a poverty-stricken painter struggling to find commissions during the Great Depression. His only friend is kindly cab driver Gus (David Wayne). Eben tries to sell his drawings to an art gallery controlled by Miss Spinney (Ethel Barrymore), but is told that his work is mediocre. Nonetheless, Spinney takes a...
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