Drama

Romance

Kitty Foyle

RKO Radio Pictures

United States of America

English

Ginger Rogers

Dennis Morgan

James Craig

Eduardo Ciannelli

Ernest Cossart

Gladys Cooper

Odette Myrtil

Mary Treen

K.T. Stevens

Walter Kingsford

Cecil Cunningham

Nella Walker

Edward Fielding

Kay Linaker

Richard Nichols

Florence Bates

Heather Angel

Tyler Brooke

Mary Gordon

Fred Aldrich

Polly Bailey

Brooks Benedict

Joseph E. Bernard

May Boley

Ralph Brooks

Helen Brown

Julie Carter

Tom Coleman

Patricia Conway

Gino Corrado

Mary Currier

Max Davidson

Mimi Doyle

Aaron Edwards

William Elmer

Harold Entwistle

Pat Flaherty

Renee Godfrey

Fay Helm

Tom Herbert

Charles Irwin

Donald Kerr

Mike Lally

Max Linder

Helen Lynd

Bertram Marburgh

Edward McNamara

Tony Merlo

Frank Milan

Charles Miller

Anna Mills

Frank Mills

Louis Natheaux

Hattie Noel

Rosa Palmese

Hilda Plowright

Charles Quigley

Tom Quinn

Joey Ray

Mel Ruick

Walter Sande

Larry Steers

Ray Teal

Dorothy Vaughan

Theodore von Eltz

Doodles Weaver

Joe Whitehead

Jan Wiley

Patricia Maier

Mary Benoit

Jane Patten

Bill Ramsay

Gohr Van Vleck

Gerda Mora

Sam Wood

Van Nest Polglase

W. Argyle Nelson

Vernon L. Walker

Darrell Silvera

David Hempstead

Dalton Trumbo

Christopher Morley

Robert De Grasse

Renié

Henry Berman

Roy Webb

Donald Ogden Stewart

John L. Cass

Mark-Lee Kirk

Harry E. Edington

Ginger Rogers won a best actress Oscar for portrayal of  Kitty Foyle from Irish working class roots. Told in flashbacks, the film starts with Wyn asking Kitty to run away with him to South America and live in sin as he is already married.

We see the Kitty is torn between, wealthy and monied Wyn (Dennis Morgan) or marry a safe and sturdy Doctor Eisen  (James Craig) who woos her.

Kitty enchanted by the dashing Wyn from Philadelphia aristocracy but his family disapproves of her.

The film has a feminist bent as it recounts of the independence of women in 20th century America. It also with Dalton Trumbo as a screenwriter has political leanings which lends the film more interest.

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This demonstrates clearly that Ginger Rogers was much more than just a dance partner, as she pretty much single-handedly holds this rather sweet melodrama together. She starts work as the secretary to Philadelphia gent "Wyn Stratford" (Dennis Morgan) and before long they fall in love... but what can come of it? He is from a wealthy society family, she a hard working gal of Irish-immigrant stock. Sam Wood takes us on a gentle ride as their on/off relationship thrives then falters as they try to reconcile what divides them with what drives them. Rogers plays the eponymous "Kitty" delicately and purposefully; feisty when she has to be, romantic and sensitive when called for too. Morgan is a good looking young man, and his performance as the fella just a bit too tied to the apron-strings (of the money, if not the family) is good too. For it's time, it also touches on a few subjects that might be considered risqué and it does not follow the traditional happy-ever-ending route that you might expect. To beat an Oscar nomination list including Fontaine, Hepburn & Bette Davis to the statuette speaks volumes...

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Ginger Rogers

Dennis Morgan

James Craig

Eduardo Ciannelli

Ernest Cossart

Gladys Cooper

Odette Myrtil

Mary Treen

K.T. Stevens

Walter Kingsford

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