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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, the handsome and wealthy Wynn Strafford (Dennis Morgan) of Philadelphia's Main Line Society who can offer her an unmarried arrangement or the poor yet dedicated doctor (James Craig) who has courted her and wants to marry her. The story unfolds in flashbacks as Kitty gazes into a snow globe and remembers all the heartache and complex situations that have brought her to this night.
Notable for its depiction of a working class girl and her shattered dreams, this earned Ginger Rogers the Academy Award for Best Actress. Included in the special features on the DVD are two appropriate cartoons: a Tom and Jerry episode entitled "Kitty Foiled" and a classic spoof of the movie entitled "Bad Luck Blackie."
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. The story is now a bit old-fashioned for the modern-day-audience but in her quiet and loud "Judas Priest" moments are filled with motivation and meaning. There were moments where she could bring me to absolute tears. and during the entire duration of the film, I was constantly empathizing with Kitty.
The only problem I had was maybe seeing her playing Kitty as a 15 year old. In all honesty, it was not believable that a woman with such mature looks could be an early teen.
But no matter no matter... Ginger was out to prove something when she took on this role and by Judas Priest, she truly did. On an important sidenote, Dennis Morgan is absolutely beautiful as the idealistic and romantic Wynn.
(I suggest, if you haven't already, watching "Stage Door"... a more flashy role and yet, another subtle, believable performance!)
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 LIIIIINNNEEE???? Seems the whole worl knows about the MAIIIIIIINNNNEEE LIIIIIIINNNNNNEEEEEEE "Philadelphia Aristocracy" See, in Philadelphia, they're old skool, dig. They even got a Queen of Pennsylvania, who sits on a throne and stuff. Played by Margaret Dumont when she's not getting scandalized by Groucho Marx. And I believe there is a duke and duchess of Bakersfield. And just the other day I had tea and crumpets with the Viscount of Compton. Of the Night Train... I mean Wild I... I mean Yeah, he was drinking Ripple back when Redd Foxx was merely the Duke of Cornwall. He was in line to the throne... or was that waiting for the mens room... See, over here in the States we take our aristocracy just as seriously as our Prussian counterparts. We are always to be seen marching around with those spiky helmets on, saluting the statue of Kaiser Bill's moustache.
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