| Kitty | |
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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Kitty_(1945_film).jpg) Theatrical poster to Kitty (1945) | |
| Directed by | Mitchell Leisen |
| Written by | Karl Tunberg Darrell Ware |
| Based on | novel by Rosamond Marshall |
| Produced by | Mitchell Leisen |
| Starring | Paulette Goddard Ray Milland |
| Cinematography | Daniel L. Fapp |
| Edited by | Alma Macrorie |
| Music by | Victor Young |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million[1] |
| Box office | $3.5 million (US rentals)[2] |
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.
- ^ Pryor, Thomas M. (8 April 1945). "BLITHE SPENDTHRIFT: Parisian Lady". The New York Times. p. 41.
- ^ "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8