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Kitty Foyle (1940)

Starring: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Sam Wood, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
  • Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Turner Home Ent
  • DVD Release Date: January 31, 2006
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000BYA4FG
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,091 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Special Features

  • Two classic cartoons: Bad Luck Blackie, Tom and Jerry in Kitty Foiled
  • Two radio productions with Ginger Rogers: 5/5/1941 Lux Radio Theater broadcast, 4/6/1946 Academy Award Theater broadcast
  • Theatrical trailer

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After initially rejecting the role as too sentimental, Ginger Rogers found the title character of Kitty Foyle to be an Oscar winner and a career breakthrough. Released in 1940, only a year after her nine-picture partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Kitty Foyle helped establish Rogers as a nonmusical box-office star. The film portrays a white-collar working girl who receives a warm and welcome marriage proposal from Mark (James Craig), a kindly but humble doctor. As soon as she accepts, however, she receives a different proposition, this one from her former love, wealthy socialite Wyn (Dennis Morgan), who plans to flee his life and his wife and asks Kitty to join him and live in unwedded bliss in South America. Kitty then recounts her life in flashback to help her choose which man to love. Rogers gives an appealing performance as the feisty yet vulnerable Kitty, who makes up in moxie what she lacks in social status. Did she really deserve the Best Actress Oscar over Bette Davis in The Letter, Joan Fontaine in Rebecca, Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, and Martha Scott in Our Town? Well, evidently Rogers had real-life moxie too. --David Horiuchi


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Known for light comedies and her partnership with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers stepped off the dance floor and into 1940's Oscar spotlight with her Best Actress turn as Kitty, an indomitable working-class girl who endures the rejection of Philadelphia society, makes her own way as a single woman and ultimately chooses between an unmarried arrangement with Main Line scion Wynnewood Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan) or marriage to a struggling physician (James Craig). Rogers' deserved Academy Award confirmed she was more than a dance star - a fact humorously underscored when she returned to the studio and was greeted by staffers and actors in top hats and tails. Jane Wyman won the Best Actress Academy Award for her sensitive portrayal of Belinda, capturing the girl's affecting isolation, awakening desire to learn and ultimate triumph. Directed by Jean Negulesco and co-starring Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford and Agnes Moorehead (all four Oscar nominees* for their fine work), Johnny Belinda (nominated for a total 11 Oscars including Best Picture) blends atmosphere, nuance and high drama into a heartbreaking classic.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ginger Rogers Shines, November 9, 2005
By Bobby Underwood "starlighthotel" (Bakersfield, California United States) - See all my reviews
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Ginger Rogers was very popular, both within the Hollywood community, and with the moviegoing public. With two strong performances in 1940, she took home the Oscar despite strong competition. Rogers perfectly captured the dilema of every American girl who worked for a living. Her portrayel of a young woman having to decide between a young woman's daydream of what love would be like and the real thing is flawless. Sam Wood directed this very entertaining film based on Christopher Morley's popular book.

Ginger is Kitty Foyle, a career girl from Philadelphia who falls for her boss, Wyn Strafford (Dennis Morgan), in what she thinks is everything she's dreamed about all her life. Wood used a snowglobe as a transitional device to Kitty's flashbacks of their romance, just as George Stevens had used a phonograph in Penny Serenade the previous year. Kitty and Wyn are no longer together, their brief marriage ending in divorce when it finally becomes clear to Kitty that her Irish American moxie can not overcome Wyn's old-money family in their Darby Mill--Griscom Street romance.

Kitty has moved on and has a chance for something real with a young but poor doctor portrayed by James Craig. But it is a down to earth and more practical love, and when Wyn suddenly appears to take her away once more, but not as his wife, she must decide which path to choose. As she packs to run away with Wyn, she argues with her conscience and remembers.

Ernest Cossart is very good as Kitty's pop, trying to steer her in the right direction. He may have been born four drinks below par, as Kitty affectionately teases him, but he is wise enough to see Wyn's weak character, which will never allow him to break from his society family and make a real life with his daughter. Kitty will face two tragedies simultaneously in this warm and sentimental story of an American working girl trying to have it all.

Rogers did deserve the Oscar because she is everything in this film. She may have been the only actress around who could have so readily been accepted to represent an entire generation of young women during the 1940's. They viewed her as one of their own, even though the glamour of Hollywood was part of her story as well. She was the American girl made good, and her performance here is flawless.

A fine ending showed not only Kitty's Irish American moxie, but her growth and maturity as well. This is a fine film with a terrific performance from Ginger Rogers that is very much a product of the era it was made. A fine score from Roy Webb adds to this gentle story of letting the dream of love go in favor of the real thing. A must own for Ginger's fans and a good one for film buffs to add to their collection.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ginger's victory all the way, June 5, 2004
By Steven L. Katz "H.S Katz" (Newton, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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Any best actress oscar winner of 1940 would have been controversial. I think Ginger deserved it as well as any of the others. She is wonderful in this drama, and she portrays KItty with a certain realness. watch her facial expressions. I believe that Ginger had the most expressive and beautiful eyes in hollywood history. after losing her baby in childbirth, kitty's look on her face whenever she sees a child afterwards is devestating. the whole cast is fine, and you could cut Gin and Dennis Morgan's chemistry with a knife. Ginger had a strange power to bring out so much chemistry from all her leading men. In the early scenes, she is adorable as little kitty. I don't believe that this is a soap opera, because the situations are NOT ridiculous and the characters are very real, but nevertheless it is a heavier type of drama, so don't expect a SWING TIME-like experience, and keep the tissues handy. I highly recommend this film, not only for Ginger's performance, but for the movie as a whole.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Heart Rending Depiction of Class and Gender, August 1, 2006
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"Kitty Foyle" is a provocative depiction of class and gender politics during the era preceding World War II in America. The film bluntly displays how your happiness could be impeded by your station in life and if you are a woman it's that much harder. There are no real villains in the piece other than the archaic mores set down for generations. Interesting, though based on a novel by Christopher Morley, the script was adapted by Dalton Trumbo who would later be blacklisted. Ginger Rogers, in a performance of great strength and nuance, more than earned her Oscar for her work here. Those who would dismiss her as Fred Astaire's dance partner should check out her work in films like "42nd Street" and "Stage Door".
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5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorites!
Kitty Foyle, starring Ginger Rogers -- in one of her non-dancing roles -- is one of my favorite movies of all time! Ms. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jenifer Good

4.0 out of 5 stars Great service
This was a very last minute purchase for mother's day and it still arrived in time!
Published 5 months ago by Trex86

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, THAT Ginger Rogers stars as Kitty Foyle in this serious drama
I was flipping the channels the other night and this B&W movie must have just started because the scene of the working girl on the bus just caught my attention. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lee Haskell

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent movie with Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
I watched this movie and it was excellent - the movie has a lot of strong drama and a touch of humour - Ginger Rogers does an awesome job in this movie !!
Published 16 months ago by Rose Taylor

5.0 out of 5 stars Ginger Rogers' Oscar Winning Performance Will Resonate With All Working Girls
Ginger Rogers stepped off the dance floor and into dramatic movies in the 1940's. This classic love story, subtitled "The Natural History of a Woman," is a great introduction to... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Antoinette Klein

1.0 out of 5 stars A Real Stinker!
Generational considerations are invalid when discussing this movie. In any generation, this movie plods along until you're ready to scream "Please -- somebody do something! Read more
Published on February 20, 2007 by mikecalendar

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh Ginger....
After loving her in all 10 Astaire & Rogers films PLUS enjoying her performance in "Stage Door," I could not get enough of that sassy blonde who couldn't stop from spitting out... Read more
Published on December 14, 2006 by January Lim

1.0 out of 5 stars garbology
Main Line, Main Line.... those Main Liners.... You like to look at those Main Liners, don't you Ginger... I mean Kitty? Read more
Published on September 14, 2006 by mark twain

3.0 out of 5 stars "i'm free, white, and 21 ..."
a fascinating curiosity today, as a glance into what constituted a "modern woman" in pre-ww2 america. Read more
Published on July 3, 2006 by Jonathan Lapin

1.0 out of 5 stars movie reviews crossed: kitty foyle & johnny belinda
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