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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780647374
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780647378
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 20571
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: December 27, 1940
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Product Description:
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.Running Time: 108 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 053939677225 Manufacturer No: T6772
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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 !!
Rating: - 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 her work for those not familiar with it.
She plays the part of Kitty Foyle, a working class girl with lots of moxie and a desire to have all the finer things in life that only a rich husband could provide. The movie begins at the end when she has until midnight to choose between two lovers: her former boss, ... Read More
Rating:  - 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!" This movie is basically a bore and if this is an example of great movie-making from the 1940s then I'm glad I grew up much later.
Cannot recommend "Kitty Foyle." Watch "Kill Bill" instead.
Rating: - 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 one wisecrack after another.
Lo and behold, she can do more than just sing, dance, and act like a tough-street-smart gal.... she can convincingly portray an entire range of human emotions known to man. and do it well.
I am not biased when I say that Ginger Rogers' performance in this film is flawless. ... Read More
Rating: - garbology
Main Line, Main Line.... those Main Liners.... You like to look at those Main Liners, don't you Ginger... I mean Kitty? You the suffragette who just got offa the suffragette wagon... the same wagon that was seen rolling by in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle... wait a minute... that was the exact same footage! I guess the makers of this fine movie assembled it out of stock footage. In fact Wynn, the MAIN LINER seems to be assembled out of stock footage of Bill Clinton. Did you know allabout the MAIIINNNE ... Read More
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