Kitty Foyle

Name: Kitty Foyle
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: December 27, 1940
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 55

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RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: December 27, 1940 | Passed

Summary: A hard-working white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 108 min

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The Guardian Pamela Hutchinson

Kitty is a child of her age, and this melodrama aspires to state-of-the-nation commentary about the limits of the American dream for working-class women, while she cherishes a keepsake snowglobe like a distaff Citizen Kane. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Highly sentimental, KITTY FOYLE features typically variable direction by Wood and includes an unnecessary prologue showing how the treatment of women supposedly changed through the years. Despite these drawbacks, this film makes no apologies for being a romantic tearjerker. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Despite its episodic, and at times, vaguely-defined motivation, picture on whole is a poignant and dramatic portraiture of a typical Cinderella girl’s love story. Several good comedy sequences interline the footage, deftly written and directed. Read full review

The Telegraph Staff (Not Credited)

With something to say about the suffocating social mores of the time, it is one of the better-surviving chic-flicks of the Forties. [05 Jan 2013, p.32]

Pat Graham

Sam Wood, the El Supremo of Hollywood hackdom, squired this one to glory. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

The sharpness and contemporary significance of Mr. Morley's commentary are missing. Read full review

Pauline Kael

In a long career of giving pleasure, this is one of the few occasions when (Rogers) failed; it isn't her worst acting but there's nothing in the soggy material to release the distinctive Ginger Rogers sense of fun.

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