Kitty Foyle (1940)

Academy Awards, USA 1941

Winner Oscar	Best Actress in a Leading Role Ginger Rogers
Nominee Oscar	Best Picture
	Best Director Sam Wood
	Best Writing, Screenplay Dalton Trumbo
	Best Sound, Recording John Aalberg (RKO Radio SSD)

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Sam Wood
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Bros.)

After a confusing beginning, we learn through flashbacks the life story of one Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), a struggling clerk in Philadelphia. One day she meets by chance wealthy entrepreneur Dennis Morgan, who hires her to work on his magazine. They fall in love, but their different social standings prove difficult to overcome. They get married anyway, but when she is brought home to meet his stodgy family they demand he work in the family banking business or be disinherited. She walks out on him and takes a job in a New York City department store. Years pass, and she begrudgingly starts up a new romance with an eager young doctor. She strings him along until he eventually proposes, but she changes her mind at the last minute when her old love shows up. Or does she? Contrived mess borrows structurally from Citizen Kane, but with not nearly as much success. It apparently started a fashion trend known as the "Kitty Foyle dress".