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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 27 December, 1940 DVD Release : 31 January, 2006 |
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Kitty Foyle description 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 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | 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." |
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