Kitty (1945)
- Directed by
- Mitchell Leisen
- Genre
- drama film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In 1780s London, a poor cockney girl is taken in by a broke aristocrat and his aunt. They teach her manners and style to marry her off to a wealthy nobleman, hoping to fix their own money troubles.
romanticwhimsicallightheartedglamorousperiod charmsocial climbingwittyfast-paced
What happens
Kitty is a 1945 film, a costume drama set in London during the 1780s, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall (published in 1943). The screenplay is by Karl Tunberg. It stars Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, and Cecil Kellaway as the English painter Thomas Gainsborough. In a broad interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the film tells the rags-to-riches story of a beautiful young cockney guttersnipe who is given a complete makeover by an impoverished aristocrat (Milland) and his aunt (Collier). They hope to arrange her marriage to a peer, thereby repairing their fortunes and their social status. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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