Quality Street (1937)

Directed by

George Stevens

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in 19th century England pretends to be her own younger niece to win back a former suitor who has returned from war. She navigates the complications of this disguise while trying to rekindle their romance.

whimsicalromanticlightheartednostalgicbittersweetgentletheatrical

What happens

Quality Street is a 1937 American historical comedy film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. Set in 19th-century England, the film stars Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone. Joan Fontaine makes one of her early (uncredited) film appearances. The screenplay was by Allan Scott, Mortimer Offner, and Jack Townley, based on the 1901 play Quality Street by J. M. Barrie. This 1937 version was filmed at the RKO Encino movie ranch, RKO Forty Acres backlot, and RKO Hollywood Studios. Quality Street was a box office failure, recording a loss of $248,000. It was Katharine Hepburn's fourth flop film in a row for RKO Pictures, which added to Miss Hepburn’s label as "box office poison" by the 1938 national group of movie exhibitors. Roy Webb's music was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Score. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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