Paulette was tooooo awesome in this film!
One of her best performances and im sorry ,her in rags and mud on her face-you just cant beat it ,so cute! and ray milland was great! an all over good cast!
hilarious too!
Gross that noones posted about kittyyyy :(
"WellHeCouldCrackACoconutWithThoseKnees!..IfHeCouldgetThemTogether.."-TheWomen
I would love to post about this movie but cannot find it to view, no DVD release, and don't know of any VHS available. I really like Paulette Goddard and have seen everything she has been in that is available. I really want to see this film, is it too much to ask that it become available?
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Ahh :(
Im sorry you havnt been able to see it!
I only have the DVD because a tres kind friend i met through IMDB mailed me a copy.
Maybe you could track her down and inquire?
"WellHeCouldCrackACoconutWithThoseKnees!..IfHeCouldgetThemTogether.."-'TheWomen'-1939
Hello
I do have this movie
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I'm watching it on TCM right now. It's rarely shown. Paulette Goddard is so pretty, she was a candidate for Gone With the Wind and I think she would have been good as Scarlett O'Hara!
I love love love this kind of movie, an old-fashioned costume picture. We will never see this kind of thing again. (maybe something on Masterpiece Theater, but I suppose the Moll Flanders/Tom Jones type stories have already been done to death. A shame!)
Just watched KITTY on TCM. What a lovely gem of a film. Delightful, from beginning to end.
shareKitty is a delight. Some of the best period costumes ever in an era when Hollywood wasn't always historically accurate, but these clothes are. As a child, I found the novel it was based on with stills from the movie on my parents book shelf -- years later I found it again or a friend found it at a used bookstore. I didn't get to see the movie till many years later on AMC, now TCM shows it. The movie is very charming -- Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland lead a great cast including Eric Blore as a manservant and Cecil Kellaway as the painter Gainsborough, his studio is a treat with many copies of his paintings on display, I think Robert Osborne said there were sixty copies of Gainsborough paintings in the film. One of the best supporting players is Constance Collier as Milland's tipsy aunt, Lady Susan. I love the scene where she teaches Kitty how to use a fan.
shareThe fan scene is one of the best. I also like how later Kitty uses the fan when Hugh comments on how her baby looks like his father.
Everyone is right, this film is a delight; witty, well-scripted and beautifully appointed (wonderful costumes, production design and art direction). Certainly it's one of Mitchell Leisen's best, sort of a combination of "Pygmalion" and "Forever Amber". Paulette Goddard is perfection as the elegant duchess in the latter half of the film, and fun as the beginning's guttersnipe, though her cockney accent is rather dicey. The entire cast, however, shines with Cecil Kellaway, Constance Collier and Reginald Owen all outstanding in support and Ray Milland and Patric Knowles handsome and charming leading men. One of Hollywood's buried treasures!
shareI just adore this film, and IMO, I felt that Ms. Goddard did very well with her accent; in fact, when I first saw the film (and wasn't acquainted with Paulette), I thought she WAS English! Just saw her in "The Women" on TCM---she's a hoot in that one, too. Just wish I could find this movie on DVD. *sigh*
shareThis movie was a very pleasant surprise. The story was interesting and it kept you wondering when Kitty would be found out. Ray Milland played the cad perfectly and I thought he would end up doing Kitty in. The ending was not I was hoping for but it could have been worse. All the actors did a very good job in this little known gem.
shareGainsborough was the only redeeming part of this movie as the other supporting actors seem to be in a blatant competition to out-screech one another in their quest to prove they are louder than the actor next to them. It was absolutely unbearable as even the fabulous Ray Milland succumbs to the idiotic screeching. I don't get the positive reviews--people have way more patience than I do with the over-acting and competing to do the most outrageous loudest and silliest accents ever. The awful voices just give me a terrible headache.....I didn't enjoy it at all.
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