Jenny
About Jenny
Countess Jenny van Bergen is courted by Baron Burg. Her father, Count Bergen, tells Burg's father that there will be no marriage until the baron has steady work, and he takes Jenny on a long trip through Italy. Near Rome they stay with Baron Galdi, who begins his own courtship. Jenny hears a voice from the garden, follows it to a blacksmith named Mario, and asks him to sing. Mario falls in love with her, and the difference in rank stops him.
Cast & crew
More about Jenny
Nino Oxilia directed the short for Cines in Rome. Pina Menichelli stars, with Alberto Nepoti, Amleto Novelli, and Giuseppe Piemontesi. The Italian title is Per amore di Jenny.
Themes
Making
Oxilia cuts between Jenny's hosts and the views around Rome, then lands on Mario at the forge. The blacksmith takes her request for a song as love.
Look
The surviving print is tinted by scene, with a separate color for the garden where Jenny first hears Mario.
Preservation
A print survives. A digital copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- A surviving copy runs about nineteen minutes, matching the Wikidata timing.
- Viewers of the circulating print have noted tinted shots: yellow exteriors, blue and sepia interiors, and green and purple in the garden, with red titles.
- Oxilia also directed Rapsodia satanica in 1915, with Lyda Borelli.
- The short is sometimes filed under the English title Jenny.
Scenes
- Jenny rests in the garden and follows a distant song to Mario's forge.
- She asks the blacksmith to sing for her, and he falls in love.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Per amore di Jenny (1915).webm)
