What happens
Evan Adams, a struggling painter in New York in 1934, meets a young girl named Jenny Appleton in Central Park who claims her parents are a tightrope act. Over the following months Adams encounters Jenny again, each time finding her older, and he paints her portrait. Joseph Cotton stars in the role of Evan Adams, with Barbara Eiler as Jenny, in this Screen Directors Playhouse broadcast of Portrait of Jenny, first aired on March 10, 1950.
New York City, Central Park, and a New England coast, in 1934 and the years following
Characters: Evan Adams, Jenny Appleton, Miss Penny, Cecily Brown
Listen for: Jenny's song about where everything goes, and Adams's conversation with the young Jenny in the park
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.