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Kitty Foyle | 
 enlarge | Director: Sam Wood
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ernest Cossart
Studio: Motion International
Category: Video
Buy New: CDN$ 21.95
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 4387
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6303360009
UPC: 053939632736
EAN: 9786303360003
ASIN: 6303360009
Theatrical Release Date: December 27, 1940
Release Date: March 5, 1996
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential video
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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Ginger's victory all the way June 6, 2004
Steven L. Katz (Newton, MA United States)
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.
Kitty Foyle July 19, 2002
Ginger Rogers dazzled me with her simplistic character of Kitty Foyle. In a performance of a woman with no social status, but charms the hearts of two men, one of which may be too high in class for her, so his family feels. It is a movie that has you almost sure of who she loves, but totally surprises you in the end. Enjoy it, and I hope you love it as much as I did!
Timeless Classic April 15, 2002
This is one of my all-time favorite old movies. I believe that Ginger Rogers definitely earned the Academy Award against some stiff competition. I have watched "Kitty Foyle" around ten times, and it gets better each time. Ginger gives a spectacular performance, and the movie itself is well-constructed. It is interesting to see the character's interactions with two very different men, and there's the suspense of wondering which she will choose. Enjoy!
Ginger at her best without her dancing shoes October 24, 1999
Ciara (Sunny California)
I believe Ginger Rogers won an Academy award for her role in this movie. Though I liked her with Fred Astaire, she really became quite the actress in this movie. She is taken advantage of by a wealthy very married man, telling her how he loved her and that he was going to leave his wife, etc, etc. She became pregnant and in those days that was a scandal to say the least...you have to see the movie to really enjoy Ginger at a great time in her life. I say her at Disney World in a parade with Mickey and Minnie after she had a stroke and rather drunk besides...she will always bring fond memories back to me of that era...Thanks Ginger
This is a film that spans the generations. June 17, 1999
Paul Becker (fogr@medfordnet.com) (Shady Cove, Oregon)
Ginger Rogers is superb in this film. She is "Kitty Foyle." It is easy to see why the producers wanted her. She won the Oscar for this performance and I don't think that anyone could argue about it. RKO had to considerably rework the story in this adaptation of the book. They did admirably, but it is Ginger's film. She becomes the working girl of all time, spunky, proud, smart, hard-working and filled with a sense of integrity. It's quite an extraordinary achievement.
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