- Kitty (1945 film)
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name = Kitty
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caption = Theatrical poster to "Kitty" (1945)
director =Mitchell Leisen
producer = Mitchell Leisen
writer = Rosamond Marshall (novel)
Karl Tunberg
Darrell Ware
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starring =Paulette Goddard Ray Milland
music =Victor Young
cinematography = Daniel L. Fapp
editing = Alma Macrorie
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released =31 March 1946
runtime = 103 minutes
country =United States
language = English
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gross =
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imdb_id = 0037849"Kitty" is a 1945 film directed by
Mitchell Leisen , based on the novel byRosamond Marshall , with a screenplay byKarl Tunberg . It starsPaulette Goddard ,Ray Milland ,Constance Collier (in a fine comedic performance),Patric Knowles ,Reginald Owen , andCecil Kellaway as the English PainterThomas Gainsborough .Sara Allgood is also featured in another fine supporting performance.It concerns a rags to riches story about a young
guttersnipe girl from the slums during the time of the 18th century in London.Plot summary
Kitty (Goddard) is found working on the streets picking pockets by the painter
Thomas Gainsborough (Kellaway) and agrees to sit for a portrait for him. She then attracts the attention of wealthy playboy Sir Hugh Marcy (Milland) who upon finding out her real social status uses her for revenge against a former colleague whom he lost his job in the foreign office by posing Kitty off as a lady of fashion, what Sir Hugh does not count on is the attraction Kitty develops for him.Notes
* The author of the novel was also responsible for the
The Bixby Girls another work later turned into the filmAll the Fine Young Cannibals , starringRobert Wagner andNatalie Wood . Kitty was considered very successful as a novel and not considered to be as scandalous as Forever Amber released around the same time and subsequently banned by the Roman Catholic legion of Decency.* To acquire a Cockney accent,Goddard shared a room with the actress
Ida Lupino 's mother who had quite a thick one for a time, and learneddiction from Constance Collier who had also acted in the film.* Upon seeing this film the director
Jean Renoir decided to cast Goddard in his FilmThe Diary of a Chambermaid * The film was nominated for one Oscar for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Director Leisen worked very hard with the set and costume designers to create a historically correct picture of 18th. century England.
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