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Portrait of Jenny

Screen Directors Playhouse · March 10, 1950 · 29 min · 3,666 words

The transcript of “Portrait of Jenny”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast March 10, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Directors Playhouse plays Screen Directors Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The RTA Victor, world leader in radio, first and recorded music, first in television, proudly present. Screen directors, playhouse, star Joseph Cotton, production, portrait of Jenny, director William Deederle.

They were dream directors, present a story, a fantasy, on the edge of time. The motion picture drama, portrait of Jenny, starring Joseph Cotton in his original role of Evan Adams. Do you believe in your own immortality?

I give this story. The portrait of Jenny. It was colder than usual for me that winter in New York in 1934. I was a struggling and starving artist. No one would buy my paintings. No one in fact would even bother with me.

Except to distinguish and spin start the O'eron to Thabany near Central Park. Miss Penny. And Miss Penny, it was who told me the first great truth about my painting. Do you want me to tell you what's wrong with your work, Adam?

Please do. There isn't a drop of love in any of your painting. Love. You'll have to shed that bitterness. Learn to care for something very deeply before you'll be much of an artist. That's going to take some doing life being what it is.

Meanwhile, I'll give you $12 for that flower painting. You will. Not a penny more. Soul, soul. I practically floated out into Central Park in the Winfrey Twilight. I was a success, $12. I was a little lightheaded from exhilaration and for not having had enough to eat.

Perhaps that made it happen the first day there in Central Park. On the gloomy walk I suddenly had an awareness of something extraordinary. The sounds from Fifth Avenue seemed muted and far away like sounds from another time.

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