Kitty Foyle
RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: December 27, 1940 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Chicago ReaderPat Graham
Sam Wood, the El Supremo of Hollywood hackdom, squired this one to glory. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
The sharpness and contemporary significance of Mr. Morley's commentary are missing. Read full review
80
VarietyStaff (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
80
TV Guide MagazineStaff (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
80
The GuardianPamela 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
40
The New YorkerPauline 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.
60
The TelegraphStaff (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]
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