Review: Kitty Foyle: 5.9/10
Kitty Foyle (1940): 5.9/10
I was expecting to like this film more than I actually did which is disappointing. Maybe it is because a lot of the film has not aged well and comes off as very dated. There is another melodrama I have recently seen which is much more over the top but it has aged better than Kitty Foyle. What keeps this movie afloat is Ginger Rogers as Kitty Foyle and her chemistry which her two leading men. The scenes when Kitty hears Wyn's voice on the recorder, when she meets Mark and the scene when she meets Wyn's family are the standouts here. Other than these scenes, the film fails to deliver and we see this right in the beginning with the extremely heavy handed nature of the opening sequence charting the progress women have made in recent years. While these moments are appreciated somewhat, they also bog down the film in unnecessary and hammy elements. Another example of this is the frame story of the film. Kitty is trying to decide which man to marry and another version of herself appears in the mirror and literally tells her her own entire life story which we then get to see. It was really badly handled.
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Good review of a Rogers film that i haven't seen...in fact like you, I don't think I have seen her in much without Astaire by her side. (Unless you count 'the Love Boat