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* {{Fainting}}: The Fake Faint variant, as Kitty, after accidentally triggering the burglar alarm at the department store where she works, pretends to faint to avoid getting fired.
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* {{Fainting}}: The Fake Faint variant, as FakeFaint: Kitty, after accidentally triggering the burglar alarm at the department store where she works, pretends to faint to avoid getting fired.
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* UptownGirl: Apparently it's SeriousBusiness if a man from the aristocracy of "Main Line" Philadelphia marries a secretary like Kitty. Wynn's snobby family has the effrontery to say that Kitty has to go to a finishing school for high-class ladies before she can marry him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Mark, who is married to another woman, wants Kitty to run away with him, and won't even promise to get a divorce.
* YourCheatingHeart: Mark, who is married to another woman, wants Kitty to run away with him, and won't even promise to get a divorce.
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* UptownGirl: Apparently it's SeriousBusiness if a man from the aristocracy of "Main Line" Philadelphia marries a secretary like Kitty. Wynn's snobby family has the effrontery to say that Kitty has to go to a finishing school for high-class ladies before she can marry him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Mark, who is married to another woman, wants Kitty to run away with him, and won't even promise to get a divorce.him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Mark, who is married to another woman, wants Kitty to run away with him, and won't even promise to get a divorce.
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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Played with. Mark, after figuring out that Kitty didn't really faint but is playing possum, starts feeling her up. Remember, Mark is supposed to be the good guy (see UnintentionalPeriodPiece below.)
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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Played with. Mark, after figuring out that Kitty didn't really faint but is playing possum, starts feeling her up. Remember, Mark is supposed to be the good guy (see UnintentionalPeriodPiece below.)guy.
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''Kitty Foyle'' comes off as dated, creaky melodrama to a latter-day viewer, but in 1940 it was a critical and commercial success. Ginger Rogers, who had enjoyed some starring vehicles before but had mostly appeared in Creator/BusbyBerkeley musicals and dance movies opposite Creator/FredAstaire, benefited from the full force of the TomHanksSyndrome here, winning the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actress.
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''Kitty Foyle'' comes might come off as dated, creaky melodrama to a latter-day viewer, but in 1940 it was a critical and commercial success. Ginger Rogers, who had enjoyed some starring vehicles before but had mostly appeared in Creator/BusbyBerkeley musicals and dance movies opposite Creator/FredAstaire, benefited from the full force of the TomHanksSyndrome here, winning the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actress.
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''Kitty Foyle'' is a 1940 romantic drama directed by Sam Wood and starring Creator/GingerRogers. Kitty Foyle is a white-collar office worker in New York who is about to get married to her boyfriend, handsome doctor Mark Elsen. But just as she's preparing to elope, none other than her old boyfriend Wyn Stafford shows up. Wyn, who is both wealthy and married, is about to sail away to South America, and wants Kitty to accompany him so they can live in sin together. The main plot is then told in a series of flashbacks, as Kitty remembers how her relationship with Wyn started and how it went bad, and how she met Mark. Kitty then faces the dilemma of who to choose.
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''Kitty Foyle'' is a 1940 romantic drama directed by Sam Wood and starring Creator/GingerRogers. Creator/GingerRogers in the title role.
Kitty Foyle is a white-collar office worker in New York who is about to get married to her boyfriend, handsome doctor Mark Elsen. But just as she's preparing to elope, none other than her old boyfriend Wyn Stafford shows up. Wyn, who is both wealthy and married, is about to sail away to South America, and wants Kitty to accompany him so they can live in sin together. The main plot is then told in a series of flashbacks, as Kitty remembers how her relationship with Wyn started and how it went bad, and how she met Mark. Kitty then faces the dilemma of who to choose.
Kitty Foyle is a white-collar office worker in New York who is about to get married to her boyfriend, handsome doctor Mark Elsen. But just as she's preparing to elope, none other than her old boyfriend Wyn Stafford shows up. Wyn, who is both wealthy and married, is about to sail away to South America, and wants Kitty to accompany him so they can live in sin together. The main plot is then told in a series of flashbacks, as Kitty remembers how her relationship with Wyn started and how it went bad, and how she met Mark. Kitty then faces the dilemma of who to choose.
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''Kitty Foyle'' comes off as dated, creaky melodrama to a latter-day viewer, but in 1940 it was a critical and commercial success. Ginger Rogers, who had enjoyed some starring vehicles before but had mostly appeared in Creator/BusbyBerkeley musicals and dance movies opposite Creator/FredAstaire, benefited from the full force of the TomHanksSyndrome here, winning the AcademyAward for Best Actress.
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''Kitty Foyle'' comes off as dated, creaky melodrama to a latter-day viewer, but in 1940 it was a critical and commercial success. Ginger Rogers, who had enjoyed some starring vehicles before but had mostly appeared in Creator/BusbyBerkeley musicals and dance movies opposite Creator/FredAstaire, benefited from the full force of the TomHanksSyndrome here, winning the AcademyAward UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actress.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This film is absolutely soaked in a 1940s attitude towards men and women and the relationship between the sexes. Apparently once upon a time it was common practice for single women to live in apartment buildings where men were not allowed to visit. Most surprising is the startling sexism shown by Mark, whom the movie is obviously setting up to be the safer and more reliable choice for Kitty. For their first "date" Mark and Kitty play solitaire for three hours, whereupon Mark says that it was a test, so he could be sure she wasn't a GoldDigger. And when Mark meets Kitty's roommates, in their pajamas with facial masks on and their hair in curlers, he says "I've seen better specimens in a glass jar."
** The main source of dramatic tension, the idea that it's deeply problematic for a secretary to marry into an Old Money family, is quite dated.
** The prologue offers another pretty jaw-dropping example of sexism in TheForties, when it portrays women achieving "equal rights" as a negative development that led to them losing privileges like men giving up seats on the trolley.
** The main source of dramatic tension, the idea that it's deeply problematic for a secretary to marry into an Old Money family, is quite dated.
** The prologue offers another pretty jaw-dropping example of sexism in TheForties, when it portrays women achieving "equal rights" as a negative development that led to them losing privileges like men giving up seats on the trolley.
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* UptownGirl: Apparently it's SeriousBusiness if a man from the aristocracy of "Main Line" Philadelphia marries a secretary like Kitty. Wynn's snobby family has the effrontery to say that Kitty has to go to a finishing school for high-class ladies before she can marry him.
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''Kitty Foyle'' is a 1940 romantic drama directed by Sam Wood and starring Creator/GingerRogers. Kitty Foyle is a white-collar office worker in New York who is about to get married to her boyfriend, handsome doctor Mark Elsen. But just as she's preparing to elope, none other than her old boyfriend Wyn Stafford shows up. Wyn, who is both wealthy and married, is about to sail away to South America, and wants Kitty to accompany him so they can live in sin together. The main plot is then told in a series of flashbacks, as Kitty remembers how her relationship with Wyn started and how it went bad, and how she met Mark. Kitty then faces the dilemma of who to choose.
''Kitty Foyle'' comes off as dated, creaky melodrama to a latter-day viewer, but in 1940 it was a critical and commercial success. Ginger Rogers, who had enjoyed some starring vehicles before but had mostly appeared in Creator/BusbyBerkeley musicals and dance movies opposite Creator/FredAstaire, benefited from the full force of the TomHanksSyndrome here, winning the AcademyAward for Best Actress.
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* AsYouKnow: Kitty's reflection in the mirror is a narrative device, but even if it's meant to symbolize Kitty remembering her past, it's still the reflection telling real-world Kitty things she already knows and remembers.
* CharacterTitle
* ChickFlick: Modern career girl has to choose between two handsome, adoring suitors in a LoveTriangle? The female lead gets top billing and is a much bigger star than the male leads?
* DistantPrologue: Before the main story starts, there's a little prologue without dialogue meant to symbolize how relationships between the sexes changed when women achieved "equal rights". Apparently everything went south after the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Played with. Mark, after figuring out that Kitty didn't really faint but is playing possum, starts feeling her up. Remember, Mark is supposed to be the good guy (see UnintentionalPeriodPiece below.)
* {{Fainting}}: The Fake Faint variant, as Kitty, after accidentally triggering the burglar alarm at the department store where she works, pretends to faint to avoid getting fired.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "I'm sorry you seem to think that I am making love to you", says Wyn to Kitty when first putting the moves on her.
* HowWeGotHere: The film starts as Wyn returns to whisk Kitty away on the night she was going to get married to Mark. The main plot is then told in a prolonged flashback.
* KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement: In the prologue, the husband discovers the wife is pregnant when he sees she's making a needlepoint that says "Baby".
* LoveTriangle: A classic example, as Kitty must choose between the one suitor who offers her cozy domestic bliss, and the other who offers her an exciting but dangerous affair.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: The reflection of Kitty in the mirror in her apartment starts talking and moving independently of real-world Kitty. Mirror Kitty is much more skeptical of Kitty's decision to run away with Wyn. After a scene where the two Kittys talk to each other, Mirror Kitty becomes the {{Narrator}}, recounting her history with Mark and Wyn.
* MeetCute: Mark and Kitty meet when he, as a doctor, tends to her when she pretends to faint after triggering the burglar alarm.
* SexySecretary: Kitty to Wyn. Their relationship goes from professional to personal after she plays back a dictaphone recording in which he talks about how much it distracts him when she crosses her legs.
* StalkerWithACrush: Wyn skirts the edge of this trope. After Kitty breaks up with him and moves to New York, he tracks her down and fills her apartment with flowers. Later, when she's about to go away and get married, she discovers that Wyn has sneaked into her apartment and is waiting for her.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This film is absolutely soaked in a 1940s attitude towards men and women and the relationship between the sexes. Apparently once upon a time it was common practice for single women to live in apartment buildings where men were not allowed to visit. Most surprising is the startling sexism shown by Mark, whom the movie is obviously setting up to be the safer and more reliable choice for Kitty. For their first "date" Mark and Kitty play solitaire for three hours, whereupon Mark says that it was a test, so he could be sure she wasn't a GoldDigger. And when Mark meets Kitty's roommates, in their pajamas with facial masks on and their hair in curlers, he says "I've seen better specimens in a glass jar."
** The prologue offers another pretty jaw-dropping example of sexism in TheForties, when it portrays women achieving "equal rights" as a negative development that led to them losing privileges like men giving up seats on the trolley.
* YourCheatingHeart: Mark, who is married to another woman, wants Kitty to run away with him, and won't even promise to get a divorce.
''Kitty Foyle'' comes off as dated, creaky melodrama to a latter-day viewer, but in 1940 it was a critical and commercial success. Ginger Rogers, who had enjoyed some starring vehicles before but had mostly appeared in Creator/BusbyBerkeley musicals and dance movies opposite Creator/FredAstaire, benefited from the full force of the TomHanksSyndrome here, winning the AcademyAward for Best Actress.
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!!Tropes:
* AsYouKnow: Kitty's reflection in the mirror is a narrative device, but even if it's meant to symbolize Kitty remembering her past, it's still the reflection telling real-world Kitty things she already knows and remembers.
* CharacterTitle
* ChickFlick: Modern career girl has to choose between two handsome, adoring suitors in a LoveTriangle? The female lead gets top billing and is a much bigger star than the male leads?
* DistantPrologue: Before the main story starts, there's a little prologue without dialogue meant to symbolize how relationships between the sexes changed when women achieved "equal rights". Apparently everything went south after the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Played with. Mark, after figuring out that Kitty didn't really faint but is playing possum, starts feeling her up. Remember, Mark is supposed to be the good guy (see UnintentionalPeriodPiece below.)
* {{Fainting}}: The Fake Faint variant, as Kitty, after accidentally triggering the burglar alarm at the department store where she works, pretends to faint to avoid getting fired.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "I'm sorry you seem to think that I am making love to you", says Wyn to Kitty when first putting the moves on her.
* HowWeGotHere: The film starts as Wyn returns to whisk Kitty away on the night she was going to get married to Mark. The main plot is then told in a prolonged flashback.
* KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement: In the prologue, the husband discovers the wife is pregnant when he sees she's making a needlepoint that says "Baby".
* LoveTriangle: A classic example, as Kitty must choose between the one suitor who offers her cozy domestic bliss, and the other who offers her an exciting but dangerous affair.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: The reflection of Kitty in the mirror in her apartment starts talking and moving independently of real-world Kitty. Mirror Kitty is much more skeptical of Kitty's decision to run away with Wyn. After a scene where the two Kittys talk to each other, Mirror Kitty becomes the {{Narrator}}, recounting her history with Mark and Wyn.
* MeetCute: Mark and Kitty meet when he, as a doctor, tends to her when she pretends to faint after triggering the burglar alarm.
* SexySecretary: Kitty to Wyn. Their relationship goes from professional to personal after she plays back a dictaphone recording in which he talks about how much it distracts him when she crosses her legs.
* StalkerWithACrush: Wyn skirts the edge of this trope. After Kitty breaks up with him and moves to New York, he tracks her down and fills her apartment with flowers. Later, when she's about to go away and get married, she discovers that Wyn has sneaked into her apartment and is waiting for her.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This film is absolutely soaked in a 1940s attitude towards men and women and the relationship between the sexes. Apparently once upon a time it was common practice for single women to live in apartment buildings where men were not allowed to visit. Most surprising is the startling sexism shown by Mark, whom the movie is obviously setting up to be the safer and more reliable choice for Kitty. For their first "date" Mark and Kitty play solitaire for three hours, whereupon Mark says that it was a test, so he could be sure she wasn't a GoldDigger. And when Mark meets Kitty's roommates, in their pajamas with facial masks on and their hair in curlers, he says "I've seen better specimens in a glass jar."
** The prologue offers another pretty jaw-dropping example of sexism in TheForties, when it portrays women achieving "equal rights" as a negative development that led to them losing privileges like men giving up seats on the trolley.
* YourCheatingHeart: Mark, who is married to another woman, wants Kitty to run away with him, and won't even promise to get a divorce.
