No credits at all are shown at the beginning except for the studio logo, not even the title of the film. Instead, we hear a narrator speaking the prologue, and then announcing, "And now, 'Portrait of Jennie'". The credits are saved for the end of the picture.
The film opens with a book entitled THE PAINTINGS OF EBEN ADAMS with the inside page headed PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
Dated 1934
H · 30: W · 25 INCHES
The film's opening has the usual Selznick mansion over which is "IN A TRADITION OF QUALITY".
There are no credits at all at the beginning of the film; even the title is not disclosed until the end of the film. Furthermore, several credited workers on the film are not designated by their actual function on the movie, but simply as "staff executives".
One of the only popular films ever to include a voiceover prologue plus TWO famous quotes (by Euripides and Keats) in place of a title card.
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