Kitty Foyle (film)

Miss Kitty is an American film drama, directed in 1940 by Sam Wood. The screenplay is based on the novel by Christopher Morley. In Germany the film was first shown on October 7, 1947 in the cinemas.

Action

One winter evening is Kitty Foyle, employees of beauty parlors, before a difficult choice: either she marries the young doctor marrow iron, or she sails with her ​​puppy love Wyn Stafford it. Kitty thinks back to her youth in Philadelphia.

The musings of young Kitty after a dream man getting out of hand so that their academic performance decrease. Five years later, she meets Wyn Stafford, with whom she immediately falls in love. Wyn offers her a position in his new company. Although Wyn has feelings for the young woman, he can not bring himself to stop her hand, and thus give up life in the Philadelphia society.

After her beloved father died, Kitty moves to New York. She learns the doctor marrow iron know and arrange to meet again with him. Wyn you come to, both married. Back in Philadelphia try Wyns parents to integrate the young wife in the society, but Kitty rebelled. She complains to Wyn, but the is more interested in the social position and at his parents' money. So their marriage is annulled.

Back in New York, experiencing Kitty that she is pregnant. She also hears about that Wyn has married a woman from the high society of Philadelphia. Kitty decides to raise her child alone. But the baby dies at birth. Some years later, Kitty returns to Philadelphia, this time to open a branch of the beauty salons. She learns Wyns wife and son know. She thinks about her past and decides to go to New York and marry Mark iron, waiting patiently for it.

Criticism

" In complicated flashback narrated woman fate played excellently. "

Awards

Academy Awards 1941

  • Oscar in the category Best Actress Ginger Rogers
  • Nomination for Best Picture
  • Nomination for Best Director for Sam Wood
  • Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Dalton Trumbo
  • Nomination in the category Best Sound for John Aalberg

Background

For the production company RKO was the film of the blockbuster of 1940. He brought about 870,000 U.S. dollars of profit. The original title of the film is subtitled The Natural History of a Woman. The novel also served as a template for a radio radio drama that was first aired in 1942. In 1958 a television series titled Kitty Foyle.

In a small role as a pianist, the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver, Doodles Weaver is to see.

Donald Ogden Stewart was responsible for the adaptation of the novel in this film. In the same year he won the Oscar for his original screenplay of the film The night before the wedding ( The Philadelphia Story ).

Soundtrack

1940 in film Film score Roy Webb Robert De Grasse James Craig (actor) 13th Academy Awards Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Academy Award for Best Sound RKO Pictures The Philadelphia Story (film) Paid (1930 film) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film) Our Town (1940 film) Kings Row Ivy (Film) Ambush (1950 film)
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