Kitty Foyle (film)

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Kitty Foyle

original movie poster
Directed by Sam Wood
Produced by David Hempstead
Harry E. Edington
Written by Dalton Trumbo
Donald Ogden Stewart
Starring Ginger Rogers
Dennis Morgan
James Craig
Music by Roy Webb
Cinematography Robert De Grasse
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s) December 27, 1940
Running time 108 min.
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Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper.

Katharine Hepburn was offered the title role but turned it down. She lost the Oscar that year to Ginger Rogers (Hepburn was nominated for The Philadelphia Story).

The film was adapted by Dalton Trumbo and Donald Ogden Stewart, from the eponymous 1939 novel by Christopher Morley. It was directed by Sam Wood.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. Ginger Rogers won for Best Actress.

In 1951, in a series of articles examining film adaptation, Lester Asheim, notes that some films "reproduce the costume, housing, and appearance of the novel's prototypes without softening or heightening," but that Kitty Foyle shows the more typical "glamorizing" process of film adaptation:

Kitty Foyle is typical, in every aspect of the adaptation, of the daydream character of film characterization. The glamorizing process carries through from the casting of Ginger Rogers and the Hollywood wardrobe provided her, to such added incidents as Wyn renting an entire nightclub for a night.... While the film retains a scene or two of Kitty's crowded apartment shared with two other girls, such scenes are played for comedy and no attempt is made to convey the day-to-day monotony and routine of the working girl.[1]

[edit] Trivia

Rogers' dress became a popular style in its own right, taking the name of the film.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Asheim, Lester (Summer 1951). "From Book to Film: Mass Appeals". Hollywood Quarterly 5 (4): 341. ISSN 1549-0076. OCLC 56138080. 


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