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Original Poster |
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| Directed by | George Stevens |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Written by | Allan Scott Mortimer Offner J.M. Barrie (play) |
| Starring | Katharine Hepburn Franchot Tone Eric Blore Fay Bainter |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Robert De Grasse |
| Editing by | Henry Berman |
| Release date(s) | March 26, 1937 |
| Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Quality Street is a 1937 period comedy film made by RKO.[1][2] It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Allan Scott, Mortimer Offner and Jack Townley, based on the 1901 play by James M. Barrie. The music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Robert De Grasse.
The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, with Fay Bainter, Eric Blore, Cora Witherspoon and Estelle Winwood. Joan Fontaine makes one of her early (uncredited) film appearances.
There was also a silent film version made by MGM in 1927, starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel and directed by Sidney Franklin.
The 1937 version was a flop at the box office, one of several RKO films featuring Hepburn which resulted in her being labeled "box office poison" by a national group of movie exhibitors in 1938.
The film was rarely shown on TV until TCM occasionally included it whenever they were doing a block of Hepburn films. It, along with a number of other obscure films Hepburn made in the 1930s, has recently been issued on DVD for the first time from Warner Archive.
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