Kitty Foyle

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film romantic drama film

Kitty Foyle is a 1940 romantic drama film best known for Ginger Rogers’ Oscar-winning performance as a working-class woman navigating love and social class.

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Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ
academyAwardsEdition 13th Academy Awards ⓘ
authorOfSourceWork Christopher Morley ⓘ
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ
awardReceivedBy Ginger Rogers ⓘ
basedOn Kitty Foyle self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman

novel ⓘ
blackAndWhite true ⓘ
characterName Kitty Foyle self-link ⓘ
characterPortrayedBy Ginger Rogers ⓘ
cinematographer Robert De Grasse ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
director Sam Wood ⓘ
distributor RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ
distributorRegion theatrical ⓘ
editor Henry Berman ⓘ
era Hollywood Golden Age ⓘ
surface form: Classical Hollywood cinema
genre melodrama ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ
mainCharacter Kitty Foyle self-link ⓘ
musicBy Roy Webb ⓘ
narrativeDevice flashback ⓘ
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Film Editing ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ
surface form: Academy Award for Best Screenplay
originalLanguage English ⓘ
portrays working-class woman ⓘ
producer David Hempstead ⓘ
Harry E. Edington NERFINISHED ⓘ
productionCompany RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ
publicationYearOfSourceWork 1939 ⓘ
releaseDate 1940-10-25 ⓘ
releaseYear 1940 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 108 ⓘ
screenwriter Dalton Trumbo ⓘ
Donald Ogden Stewart ⓘ
setInPeriod 1930s ⓘ
starred Dennis Morgan ⓘ
Eduardo Ciannelli ⓘ
Ernest Cossart ⓘ
Ginger Rogers ⓘ
Gladys Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ
James Craig ⓘ
Odette Myrtil ⓘ
theme female independence ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ
social class differences ⓘ
title Kitty Foyle self-link ⓘ

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Kitty Foyle → basedOn → Kitty Foyle self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
Kitty Foyle → characterName → Kitty Foyle self-link ⓘ
Kitty Foyle → mainCharacter → Kitty Foyle self-link ⓘ
Ginger Rogers → notableWork → Kitty Foyle ⓘ
Sam Wood → notableWork → Kitty Foyle ⓘ
Kitty Foyle → title → Kitty Foyle self-link ⓘ
Sam Wood → workedOn → Kitty Foyle ⓘ