 Cotten then made "Portrait of Jennie" (1948) for Selznick, co starring with Jones; Cotten played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who might have died many years before.His performance won Cotten the International Prize for Best Actor at the 1949 Venice International Film Festival.Cotten was reunited with Welles in "The Third Man" (1949), produced by Korda and Selznick.