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...Ginger Rogers did not "scream." She was so affected, her voice was scarcely audible...
Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers, James Craig, Dennis Morgan; TIME...
Fred Astaire in a dancing mood with Paulette Goddard is far different from the man who cavorted through so many musicals with Ginger Rogers. There was something about their partnership in "Roberta," "Top Hat," and others of the series that will nevermore be equalled, Paulette exudes the qualities men look for in their movie dream girls, and can even act, but she ain't got enough rhythm for Astaire. Faced with this lack of terpsichorean ability in his partner, Fred must spend most of "Second Chorus" blowing a trumpet on which he obviously doesn't know the difference between...
...best production (Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall Be No Night, rose to hand the Oscar for character to Jane Darwell (for Ma Joad, in The Grapes), the noblest Oscar of them all (for Kitty Foyle) to Ginger Rogers, who wept, screamed "greatest moment of my life" and fled back to her table amid dog-show din, to subside tearfully on the proud shoulders of Kitty Foyle Producer David Hempstead. Walter Brennan of the removable teeth got his third gold statue as the best supporting male (Judge Bean...
...Ginger Rogers clinched her stardom (and won a well-deserved Oscar) by the finest female acting of the year in her role of a spirited Irish girl from the far side of the tracks in Philadelphia. Madly in love with a Quaker aristocrat, Kitty finds that they can be happy anywhere except in the City of Brotherly Love--but the ties of birth and position hold her husband home and create a barrier between them. So Kitty goes out on her own, has a divorce and a baby, meets young doctor James Craig who offers her marriage and security. Then...